Posted on 04/25/2020 11:26:04 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer
Edited on 04/25/2020 4:21:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary.
“Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.”
During a different pandemic, one 17th-century British naval administrator named Samuel Pepys did just that. He fastidiously kept a diary from 1660 to 1669 – a period of time that included a severe outbreak of the bubonic plague in London. Epidemics have always haunted humans, but rarely do we get such a detailed glimpse into one person’s life during a crisis from so long ago.
‘I’m old enough to remember when phone numbers began with two letters!’
I remember mine, almost; CR7-something, something...CR being CRestview...
‘Daniel Defoe’s A Journal Of The Plague Year is a more detailed account.’
I love the elegance of the writing...
‘I remember that. I was in grade school’
I was in third grade...
Defoe’s book is certainly a fine one, but A Journal of the Plague Year is a well-researched work of fiction. Defoe was 5 years old when the plague hit London.
Defoe did a lot of research and interviewed what survivors he could find, but his book came out 57 years after the plague had ended.
DE stood for Decatur.
No, but they did not always “record” the deaths or even the burials of the poor. They just dug a hole and tossed em in.
I lived in a area years ago where phone numbers were given our sequentially... ours was ‘62’... The store we owned was the sixty-second phone number given out in that town... our home phone had four numbers...
Fascinating article - I have read Pepys before and had forgotten the eerie parallel here. I am pleased to see the writer, Ute Lotz-Heumann, is the current holder of the Heiko A. Oberman chair at the UofA. I had the great honor of having Prof Oberman as a teacher and an advisor back in the early 1980s. A very wise man of the old school, witty and intelligent, and a very devout Lutheran as it tend out
“He soon observed corpses being taken to their burial in the streets...”
Did they bury infected corpses “in the streets”?
"Samuel Pepys" may have been 17th century English for "Harvey Weinstein."
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My grandparent’s phone# in daBronx started with KIngsbridge7. Ours in Rockland Cty was ELmwood2. I also remember watching pro wrestling and boxing from Mexico on the Spanish UHF channels from northern NJ, IF the reception was good enough. We didn’t get cable till years later.
“red cross upon the doors, and ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ writ there”
If I get the whoo-hoo flu, I plan on putting that on my front door.
Big difference is the plague killed 90 to 95% of its victims.
A lie from this
Desperate for remedies
There are few known effective treatment options for COVID-19.
Medical and scientific research need time, but people hit hard by the virus are willing to try anything.
Fraudulent treatments, from teas and colloidal silver, to cognac and cow urine, have been floated.
Silver ions work. Teas are effective. Vitamin C. Zinc. Hydroxycloroquje
Lies. Lies. More lies.
“ no remedies. “.
Next. Vaccines !!!
Vaccines DONT WORK for viruses. Where’s that AIDS HIV one ?
It’s been 40 years and 3 billion on research
Here is the bottom line with pathogens
1- Try to limit your exposure to them
2- If a virus or bacteria gets into your system make sure you accurately identify it( Lyme disease eg )
3- Wage all out war on the pathogen - be relentless and never give up
Assault assault assault
It is much better in science to look at anything that’s out there objectively and study it !!! rather than listen to experts who try to tell you to deny it!!
Same old same old
Mine was BE4-8297 in the 60s in Brook Park Ohio, the BErea exchange.
I was 10 years old in 1957 and don’t remember hearing about the Asian Flu. Of course I wasn’t news conscious at that age and there was only a 15 minute news cast in the evening, that I never watched. Thus, to my memory, ‘it never happened.’
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