The facts are mind-boggling, especially when you consider that London's population hovered around a mere 150,000 during Shakespeare's lifetime.
It is little wonder that the average life expectancy was 35 years.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
And yet, the population still increased, scientific advancements continued to happen and civilization still advanced...
2 posted on
03/28/2020 3:52:35 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
There was a nasty disease called the sweat or English sweat. Was around for several years and then disappeared. Don’t know if anyone today knows what it was.
3 posted on
03/28/2020 3:53:16 PM PDT by
hanamizu
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I suspect England's cold and damp weather had something to do with how disease prone the country was.
Even today with vaccines aplenty I couldn't stand to live in such a cloudy dreary place. Give me Phoenix or even Baghdad. Without the denizens, of course.
6 posted on
03/28/2020 4:16:51 PM PDT by
Lizavetta
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Smallpox...
10 posted on
03/28/2020 4:53:09 PM PDT by
NRx
(A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
The Great Fire of London in 1666 got rid of a lot of those rat infested areas and the city didn’t have as bad a problem of disease deaths after that...
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Sounds like NOLA. The rats are coming out hunting for food now that tourists aren’t dropping their trash all over. City is going to have to put out poison.
14 posted on
03/28/2020 8:25:14 PM PDT by
bgill
(CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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