I recently read accounts of the plague & it was jarring just how much it shaped & redefined social order/life in that era

Covid had a fraction of that impact but it’s fallout still fuels much of what happens now

A more severe pandemic is something we need to be doing more to prevent
Reposted from Infectious Diseases
When we didn't have science, infectious diseases could be really, really bad

Bring the wrong, new pathogen and a big population together, bad

14th century: Bubonic plague (Black Death) killed > 1 in 3 in Europe, maybe even 1 in 2, total of 75M - 200M in Europe
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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