pneumonic plague is the worst kind of plague and has a very high mortality rate compared to the other plague infection types, plus pneumonic plague is transmissible via aerosol droplets, unlike other forms that are transmitted via infected fleas ...
Very good.
Pneumonic was reasoned out before explicitly documented.
The British recordkeeping starting in 1348 would record (by various clergymen serving a given village) the presence of deaths taking place and the swollen lymph nods (buboes). The counts would be meticulously noted.
You would get numbers like 5 dead one week, then 7, then 8, then 11 and then suddenly 35 and 55 and 80 and then . . . records ended. Everyone died.
What happened was some strong person got bubonic plague and was put in a hospital and he was strong and held on a long time. Too long. It reached his lungs and he started coughing before he died. That got everyone in the hospital, who then went home, or to church, coughing. That’s how the numbers exploded like that. One strong patient holding on for too long.
I know. I read the article.
Mask up if someone with plague is sneezing on you. I don’t doubt that THIS stuff is real, versus the load of cr@p we were sold via Brandon to STEAL AN ELECTION.
Shut down the WORLD? Sure. No problem. *SPIT*
Also, mask up if someone is spitting on you. ;)