UK police searching for walker dressed as 17th century plague doctor

Youtube ^ | 4/30/2020 | Leakin Media

[Rebelbase]

Video Here. UK police are looking for a walker dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor during the coronavirus lockdown.

According to local media, people in Norwich have spotted the mystery person dressed in a long black cloak, hat, and pointed beak-like mask.

The filmer, Jade Gosbell told Newsflare: "I just couldn’t believe it. It was 20 degrees and some guy was just walking around head to toe in a huge black plague doctor costume with a mask covering his face. I just thought it was ridiculous as he must have been so hot, so just be getting some sort of kick out of it?

"It’s caused a bit of a debate in where I live as people think we should just leave him be and let him have his fun however he’s also scaring people.

"My mum has a phobia of masks and it makes me angry thinking about what if she bumped into him in the street? She'd be petrified!"

This strange footage was captured on April 24.

[nickcarraway]

I’m glad somebody is still reading Poe.

[Big Red Badger]

I beg to differ,Sir.
Fishnets drive
Me
Crazy.

[Jamestown1630]

This is an interesting article:

https://www.livescience.com/what-was-the-black-death.html

[GraceG]

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-049

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I’m planning on doing that as a social experiment here in Chicago. I can’t wait to see how it goes.

[mass55th]

I was looking at plague doctor masks on Amazon last night. They sell them for Steampunk cosplay. During the plague, the doctor would stuff the beak with herbs, spices or dried flowers to keep the stench away. Men and women in the Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian periods used vinaigrettes, little boxes with a wet sponge inside that they could sniff to prevent fainting and to counteract bad smells.

[mass55th]

"This story says more about the cops in England than the person dressed up."

I don't know what the problem is. People in England dress up in period costume all the time as part of their jobs, or to take part in historical events. If I saw someone dressed like that walking around in the UK, I wouldn't think anything of it.

[mass55th]

"The Black Death swept through the Middle East and Europe in the years 1346-1353 but it may have begun several decades earlier in the Qinghai Plateau of Central Asia."

God damn Chinese! They do it every time!

[ptsal]

Later

[Drew68]

He's wearing a mask and practicing social distancing. What's the problem?

He's making a mockery of it. Not allowed.

[jonascord]

The "herbs, spices or dried flowers" were because of the belief that "bad air", (mal-aria), was the vector of the disease. And when you consider that EVERYONE stank, because they could not or would not bathe, brush their teeth, wiped with their fingers, ate off the table...

Today's mask fetish and the goofs that believe they are protecting themselves by wearing them, however...

(Remember. Masks are supposed to be protecting OTHERS from you!

Oxygen starvation won't hurt Democrats. They haven't gotten good O2 flow to the brain since they were born.

[Viking2002]

Very interesting, indeed.

[Tax-chick]

"My mum has a phobia of masks and it makes me angry thinking about what if she bumped into him in the street? She'd be petrified!"

Well, if she obeys the stay-at-home order, she won't!

[DeplorableGirl]

I think he’s hilarious!!

[jmcenanly]

There is always something new out of China, and it is usually contagious.

[I want the USA back]

If you’re “creepy” they will arrest you. (Creepy has no legal definition, so the arrest is invalid.)

Why were the police called? Oh, I forgot. The police are to enforce social conformity, not to stop crime.

My mistake.

[mewzilla]

Folks can laugh, but at least they weren’t dumb enough to lock up the healthy in 1665.

[Guenevere]

Please don’t blaspheme the Lord.

[mewzilla]

I wonder if Trump’s C-Team had ant medical historians on it. If it didn’t, it should have. They did more things right back then than we have.

[Tax-chick]

One thing about the past is that it was harder to survive if you were an absolute nincompoop, like the woman quoted, who gets into a tizzy over the non-occurence of something just dumb.