I’ve read a number of articles citing evidence that the black death started out as bubonic plague but spread so widely and quickly because it became airborne (pneumonic plague) which is caused by the same bacteria but is far more virulent and kills its victims in a different manner.
Yersinia Pestis, either or, it’s still not Ebola.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis
This is the Powers That Be trying to whip us all into a new, fear-stricken frenzy.
I’m not playing.
Screw Hegel and the dialectic he rode in on.