[Eleutheria5]

Bring out your dead! story actually sort of happened in Iam, told at 12:34.

[moovova]

Where was Fauci?

[ComputerGuy]

We’re all descended from those who survived.

[Jim Noble]

Ivermectin.

[Libloather]

Masks. Definitely the masks.

[nicollo]

From the video description, seems it has it backwards. It’s not the quarantining of villages that’s of interest, it’s the genetic resistance that led to fewer deaths within them.

I know a woman who is a direct descendant of one of these villages and who has been the subject of these genetic studies. Dunno the conclusions drawn, but she’s a freak job, so perhaps that’s part of it.

[jerod]

If you’re alive today, then somebody in your genealogy obviously survived the black death... Otherwise, you wouldn’t be alive.

[dynachrome]

Being of Scots’ descent on one side, I say it was the “uisge breatha” that preserved that branch of the family.

[AnAmericanMother]

Here's another theory:

A Doctor of Medicine

"‘Ahem!’ Mr Culpeper said suddenly. ‘I’ll prove it to you. When I was physician to Saye’s Horse, and fought the King—or rather the man Charles Stuart—in Oxfordshire (I had my learning at Cambridge), the plague was very hot all around us. I saw it at close hands. He who says I am ignorant of the plague, for example, is altogether beside the bridge.’

‘We grant it,’ said Puck solemnly. ‘But why talk of the plague this rare night?’"

[sopo]

maybe it was the cats.

[stanne]

Would be interesting to find out if they were silversmiths. I am told those working with silver had that antibiotic edge silver provides

[Zhang Fei]

There's a Sean Bean (of Game of Thrones fame) movie covering a period in medieval England during which the plague ravaged surrounding areas while seemingly skipping one village for reasons later elaborated upon.

[Craftmore]

It was the Jews and the handwashing and cleanliness that saved them.So much so that Jews were actually blamed for the plague,,,

[going hot]

Less rats, less dogs, less cats,-—> less fleas, less Yersinia pestis .

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for posting this great article!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Thanks! Here is a related link to an Atlas Obscura article about Eyam;

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eyam-plague-village-museum

It has a nice series of pictures, including some English Cottage gardens and landscapes.

[catnipman]

“Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease?”

well, only if they figured out how to also “quarantine” the fleas and rats that infected their human co-inhabiters with the plague ...

[nutmeg]

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[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[sauropod]

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