Posted on 03/13/2024 9:22:50 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time.
stis, the bacterium that causes plague.
The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans. Hence, the origin of modern plague epidemics lies in the medieval period. Other scientific evidence has indicated that the Black Death may have been viral in origin.
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Racist label.
..They closed up all the shrubbery shops and forced everyone to get bled..
I've often read about stories like linked below that the Gentiles eventually asked the Jews how come they weren't as devastated as Gentile villages were. The Jews responded that they handled the plague like it's leprosy and put people aside until they've no longer had symptoms for 7 days (as per OT law).
One of the first Gentile groups to copy that was an Italian kingdom, though they did it for 40 days. And the way they said "40 days" in their old Italian dialect is where we get the word "quarantine" from today.
https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/library/commentary/id/4536/quarantine-principles.htm
“why did western european civilation, survive?”
Because if it had died out we would have never have had the pleasure of Woke, DEI, ESG, CRT, “sex changes,” trannies, etc. Think how bleak the world would have been.
The large number of deaths had interesting secondary effects, primarily by causing a labor shortage, especially in towns that were comparatively worse affected than the countryside:
a) serfs slipped away to work in towns;
b) nascent mechanization increased: watermills, windmills, pumps and gunpowder warfare;
c) per-capita wealth & farming efficiency increased.
d) towns developed an even stronger insistence on civic (bourgeois) rights against the crown and nobility.
A lot of changes that with the compass, caravel and cannon prepared Europe to take the lead a 150 years later.
The Renaissance..
With his forces disintegrating, Janibeg used trebuchets to catapult plague-infested corpses into the town in an effort to infect his enemies. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, whence it spread inland, affecting Sicily (1347); North Africa, mainland Italy, Spain, and France (1348); and Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries (1349).
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Ah...the Mongols were such sweethearts back then.
Plagues burn themselves out.
The custom of saying, “God bless you” in response to a sneeze began during the Black Plague. A sneeze was a symptom of the onset of the plague and a death sentence for most.
And look up the history of the childhood rhyme “ring around the Rosie“… That came from the plague, too, from the characteristic red ring around the infected spots on a persons body.
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“bring out your dead” from Monty Python
But I don’t want to go on the cart!
Not the most fun time to be alive. The scholar Petrarch relates the tale of his brother, a monk in a small monastery, whose monks took treating the sick as a necessary work and after his brother buried all 31 of them, one by one, he fled the now empty monastery with only a dog for a companion. To anywhere that would take him in.
It was urban life that was really devastated, where population density forced mortality rates to skyrocket over what was seen in villages and rural areas. Overall mortality rates have been variously estimated at 30-50% but mortality rates for the pneumonic form - passed directly person to person by coughing - were in the high 90's. Good time to be a hermit.
“I’m not yet yet”
Because there was nobody pushing mRNA shots back then.
The plague ravaged Europe on multiple occasions from the first recorded history to the last major outbreak in the 17th century. In all accounts it seemed that three out of four people got sick, two recovered and one was not affected. Genetically this suggests that there was a susceptibility gene/genes (p) and a resistant gene/genes (P). If you were PP you did not get sick. If you were Pp you got sick but recovered. If you were pp you got sick and died. After the plague ravaged the population many times over thousands of years eventually the susceptibility gene was weeded out of the population. Fast forward to Europe in WW II. Concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, crowded cities all had poor sanitation with plenty of rats and fleas. Typhus outbreaks but no plague outbreaks. By the 20th century most people were no longer carrying the pp genome.
Inherent genetic resistance and susceptibility determines if with any given pathogen such as Y. Pestis, influenza Covid 19, an individual does or does not get sick.
At the time, the pandemic was referred to as the pestilence. “Black Death” was a term coined later, just as “Renaissance,” “Industrial Revolution” and “Roaring Twenties” were coined long after the events.
But they were descended of the people who survived the same plague in the Neolithic and probably more recently the Justinian plague.
So they had immune systems that sort of knew what they were dealing with and what to do.
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