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
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
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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...
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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