I used to think that a zombie apocalypse in movies was unrealistic due to how easy it would be to stop. The past two years have taught me otherwise. I also no longer rant when a character in a movie does something incredibly dumb that 'no one in that situation would actually do'.

@alainarchambault2331

Жыл бұрын

I dunno. Plot roles still find me turning the movie or TV show off when the characters act stupidly. In particular, when these plot holes are introduced to drive the narrative.

@foobar3139

Жыл бұрын

They say a mask will prevent infection from zombies.

@ReneePowell

Жыл бұрын

This pandemic has certainly recalibrated my sense of what “avoid like the plague” actually means. It’s not pretty.

@darkgalaxy5548

Жыл бұрын

@@foobar3139 Fake news. Only ivermectin is effective against zombies!

@MikeyD8716

Жыл бұрын

@@foobar3139 I think the mask 😷 is used to help prevent the wearer from spreading their saliva so they don't get others sick. If you cough with a mask on it won't spread as far.

I did a Graduate research paper on the effects of antibiotic resistant plague and its potential for becoming an international pandemic back in 1998. I used data from the Calcutta plague outbreak of '93 in which they had to shutdown the airports across a large swath of India to prevent that very thing. With today's travel restrictions still in place that potential is greatly lessened, but is still ever present. Pneumonic plague is a public health nightmare of apocalyptic proportions if not detected STAT. It would make the whole COVID debacle look like a silly child's game in comparison. I apologize for the ramble but this gem brought back that memory. Love your vids 👍👍 and thanx for the history I missed.

@kevindunlap5525

Жыл бұрын

The fact that the sun rises makes the whole covid debacle look like a silly child's game.

I’m not sure that hanging a roadkilled possum in a tree, during a full moon while playing Judas Priest songs backwards and splashing the juice from a cantaloupe on my front door works 100% of the time. All I know is that I’ve never had the plague.

@jasonsmith707

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you throw a fantastic soiree

@MitzvosGolem1

Жыл бұрын

Only female virgin possum.

@638taximan

Жыл бұрын

😃 I bet it has even been effective as a bear scare!

@christianlibertarian5488

Жыл бұрын

Judas Priest! That is what I have been doing wrong! Bon Jovi is not strong enough!

@LazyIRanch

Жыл бұрын

@@christianlibertarian5488 My mistake was using a honeydew melon instead of cantaloupe. I'm doomed.

Thanks. In military I had bubonic plague vaccination amongst many others, smallpox, cholera, typhoid, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, yellow fever, MMR etc. It was a painful experience keeping them all up to date.

@johncox6321

Жыл бұрын

If you got your immunizations at Ft. Knox back in the 80's, I most likely was one of the medics who gave them to you.

@navret1707

Жыл бұрын

Jim, I got the 2 plague shots, and a bunch of others, just prior to a WESTPAC deployment. It was the worst shot since my flu shot in ‘68. “Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead.” Monte Python.

@junyangli8882

Жыл бұрын

Anthrax was the most memorable one along with smallpox.

@noahhastings6145

Жыл бұрын

@@johncox6321 You've stabbed a lot of butts in your day

@russcrawford3310

Жыл бұрын

All I remember is the three days of painful burning ... the techs laughed and said it was the yellow fever vax ..

I appreciate that you're presenting stories that parallel current events. It's both dismaying to know we do the same stupid things again and again and to realize that somehow, despite ourselves, we get through it. This too shall pass, as they say.

@mohammedcohen

Жыл бұрын

despite all the recorded - and unrecorded - attempts to change human nature - human nature is immutable - only ONE of the reasons that attempting to turn males into 'females' and vice versa is doomed...

@tashuntka

Жыл бұрын

Well...for some of us it will...ha-ha-ha...**cough**

As smart and sophisticated as we like to see modern humans, I really can't see much difference between the way people treat mystery illnesses today and blame others for misfortune.

@Sailor376also

Жыл бұрын

Cancer is still treated that way. Our treatments of cancer are barely better than 17th Century blood letting. The bright light on the horizon. There are a number of companies today,,, right now, that are attempting to cure cancer. CURE. Not cut, burn, or poison the host hoping that something will work. There are several,,, two that come to mind are Moderna, and BionTech, are searching for true cures.

@snapdragon6601

Жыл бұрын

I'm just happy they don't use leeches anymore. 😀

@paulashe61

Жыл бұрын

Using bleach…

@paulashe61

Жыл бұрын

Ignorance is king in modernity

Ring around the Rosie Pocket full of Posies, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down. A nursery rhyme directly derived from the Black Plague.

@michaelwarren2391

Жыл бұрын

Beat me to it! 😁

When we first moved to Colorado in the early 80s there were a couple of plague victims from fleas on prairie dogs. A lot of Easterners when moving to Colorado thought it was cute to try to walk out into the prairie dog towns with their children it was hard to explain to them that they were rodents and they carried all kinds of diseases. all they could see was a cute little Prairie dog.

@ajg617

Жыл бұрын

I remember that as we were there on business in 1986. We were told to stay away from the prairie dog towns and open fields and there was white powder deposited everywhere in the dog towns.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@ajg617 , I lived in Calgary for a year back in the 90's. There are no rats in Western Canada, due to strict inspection protocol for all goods transported into Canada, but Calgary was full of Richardson's ground squirrels that burrow in parks and yards and under sidewalks, and they'd be a vector for plague if infected fleas ever reach them.

@GlennSteffy

Жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 bingo!!

When Fort Ord, outside of Monterrey CA, was operational, the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division, were required to be inoculated against plague due to a low-level infestation endemic to rodent populations in the ranch/farming operations outside of Fort Hunter-Liggett, a training area south of Monterrey. One to three cases a year were identified by state medical authorities from civilian workers. Our Division Surgeon received monthly reports from state agencies tracking the disease.

@davidsquire2107

Жыл бұрын

Occsionally a case breaks out in Northern Arizona. Ground squirrels carry the disease

@lynnwood7205

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@LadyAnuB

Жыл бұрын

I remember the plague shots given in the theater on base. (87-89, C Co, 13 Engr. Bn.) I didn't know that Hunter-Liggett had a plague population.

@typacsk

Жыл бұрын

Must have been those Ord's kangaroo rats acting as a reservoir. (kidding)

@LadyAnuB

Жыл бұрын

@@typacsk Before you say such a thing, remember there is Google now. (Range nowhere near California, let alone Hunter-Liggett.) 😛

I know Chinese families that acquired the plague in San Francisco. 118 people got it 3 survived. 1 of these survivors was the great great uncle.

@richardportillo3001

Жыл бұрын

That is an amazing testimony. So few words stated. Much is said of your family's historical Foundation. May strength remain within, may strength be given too all Thru you!

To be fair to the doctors prescribing a tree bark tea/solution, willow and poplar tree bark contains salicylic acid (the main ingredient in aspirin) and it may very well have helped to combat the effects of disease, even if marginally so.

@dalesharp8707

Жыл бұрын

This is a common misconception. There is very little, if any salicylic acid in willow bark. What is present is salicin, which is the glucoside of salicyl alcohol, which is metabolized to salicylic acid in vivo. It is also a little inaccurate to refer to salicylic acid as the main ingredient in aspirin. Aspirin is the acetyl ester of salicylic acid and is fairly rapidly metabolized to salicylic acid in vivo. While anti-inflammatory and anti-pyretic properties of aspirin and certainly largely due to the salicylic acid the anti-coagulant properties are solely due to aspirin itself, due to it acetylating platelets.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

Quinine, Used as a preventative or symptom reducer for malaria, was derived from the bark of the chinchona tree; and I am guessing that Western medical science investigated it and learned to extract quinine in a pure form because of the bark having been used first by indigenous peoples.

@Face2theScr33n

Жыл бұрын

@@dalesharp8707 Well, can we at least agree that they might have been "barking up the right tree" considering the limited knowledge us modern folk assume they had?

@evensgrey

Жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 But not necessarily as a malaria treatment, as malaria is an Old World disease and that's a New World tree. If it was discovered to be effective by the native people, it was only because they knew bark extracts worked for many diseases, so they might as well try bark extracts on this new one. (Quite often, when traditional medicines are adapted into modern medicine, they end up being used quite differently. For instance, it's fairly well known that a periwinkle native to Madagascar and used as a traditional medicine there contains a useful anticancer drug. But the traditional use on Madagascar is as a tea to treat diabetes.)

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@evensgrey , yup, I know about the Madagascar periwinkle. Always thought that was an odd name for a plant; growing up on Long Island Sound there were large moon snails we called "periwinkles". BTW, IIRC there is a cancer drug called taxol that comes from a Pacific yew shrub.

Who seeks medical treatment in the first 24 hours of feeling sick? That's a very high bar to jump.

@GlennSteffy

Жыл бұрын

BINGO!!

@GlennSteffy

Жыл бұрын

BINGO!!

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@GlennSteffy kzread.info/dash/bejne/i6V129xqk9LQZJc.html

While no one beats the H.G. on such subjects, Kaitlyn of "Ask A Mortician" has an episode of the Black Death in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. Worth checking out. Her presentation style is interesting, too.

@sherylcascadden4988

Жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest exactly this.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

If there are several good books on the subject as well but I don't remember the title of the one I read and would have to look it up. There was also a great book about yellow fever epidemics in Memphis and elsewhere in the 1800s titled The Yellow Plague. Yellow fever and malaria and the specific mosquitoes capable of transmitting them to humans came came to the Americas because of the slave trade with Africa.

@marie_h1104

Жыл бұрын

Caitlin did a great job on that topic; that episode's what made me become a fan of Ask a Mortician!

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@marie_h1104 , if you are a "graveling" by nature, you should read the book "Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers" by Mary Roach. You would love her.

@Fungii001

Жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 Maybe "Black Death at the Golden Gate?"

My first encounter with the mnemonic plague was in music: "every good boy does fine" naming the lines on the treble staff.

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

I heard the cure is to say "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge"

@kevindunlap5525

Жыл бұрын

@@mechanicaldavid4827 Noted. "Back then" every good boy was rewarded for doing a proper job, today it doesn't matter- you deserve a gold star and fudge. The fudge MAKES you a good boy. Back then if you were good, you did fine and were rewarded with...............doing fine. AS EXPECTED.

"Ring around the Rosie, a pocket full of posy. Husha, husha (sneezing). We all fall down." An English poem about flowers in one's pocket to protect against the plague.

Here in NM there will be a few cases every year.

“Those that do not recall history are doomed to repeat it.”

@endcensorship874

Жыл бұрын

Those who actively ignore the lessons of the past intend to repeat it.

@qwertyTRiG

Жыл бұрын

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

@michaelplunkett8059

Жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG Mark Twain

@navret1707

Жыл бұрын

The biggest lesson learned from history is that people seldom learn from history.

I enjoyed watching. Ty THG 👍👍

Very informative Mr History Guy. Love your channel.

This was, by far, the best episode of THG that I have seen. The parallels he was able to make between then and now are remarkable.

I had a gaslight in my front yard and so did almost all the houses in my neighborhood in. Kansas City. What were thay for and what led to their demise? Thank you for all the great content and hard work.

@whereswaldo5740

Жыл бұрын

Gas was plentiful and cheap. And the green/yellow glow was charming. As inflation rose people saw they literally were burning money. And then there were accidents with the light posts causing dangerous situations. Bumping it with a mower or car.

Perspective is a wonderful thing. And History is so much more interesting than Myth-story.

@4:35 I'm curious if a history guy a few hundred years from now will similarly report on the home economics cloth masks used recently or people wearing a mask alone in a car or outdoors. There are occasionally plague cases in the general area where I live from fleas hosted by prairie dogs and squirrels..

Well done Sir! Thank you 💜🙏⚡️

Should be required viewing for these times

So what your saying is I shouldn't burn my neighbors for being witches to banish the mal oder cursing my house?

@LazyIRanch

Жыл бұрын

Depends on how annoying your neighbors are.

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

Have you checked for skunks first?

If one thing the recent panicdemic has taught us is that the thing we need to fear most is governmental agencies who assure us that they have our best interests at heart.

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

And yet, we still have merchants of quack cures taking advantage of the gullible and science-skeptic, too... lots of off-label uses of agricultural and malarial medicines in the last two years, none of which worked.

Oberammergau, Germany, still performs the passion play every 10 years, since 1633 when they vowed to do so if the plague deaths stopped (they did).

I'd argue that the last two years have taught us: 1. Scientists, in general, are very good at what they do, and with enough funding can re-act ridiculously quickly and solve staggering problems, but 2. People, especially those in power, do not listen to scientists like they should and that leads to 3. We are not ready to deal with a real global pandemic and if something hits us that has a higher death rate than COVID did, we'd be completely left out to dry by our political leaders and various health organizations, especially in the USA.

@Noah_E

Жыл бұрын

People are suspicious of "the science" because so much of it is alarmist. If they run 20 models and 15 say disease spread will be mild or minimal, 4 more severe, but manageable, and one says everyone will die unless you quarantine, the most severe, but least likely is the only one reported to the general public. It's the problem of crying wolf. If you repeatedly declare a false or exaggerated emergency people stop listening after a while.

@Jonascord

Жыл бұрын

And scientific consensus works as well now as it did then.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Go get your booster shots.

@davidlium9338

Жыл бұрын

Scientists like Anthony Fauci?

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@davidlium9338 trust the science, really!

Good morning, fellow classmates! Time for school!

Many lessons to learn from History, it is hindsight 20/20 for today and the future. As the saying goes, History repeats itself.

Very good presentation! Too many forget History and have to relive it. Thank You!

Great stuff as always. The Black Death effectively ended the feudal system in England. Why suffer a Lord of the Manor when the Lord in the next village was offering better wages and conditions due to labour shortages. The ruling classes of England never forgot this and have used varied means to contain the peasantry ever since.

@WildWestGal

Жыл бұрын

As the oligarchs are still doing to this day.

Great video.

Thanks for another great video. I just found out you are giving a talk where I work on Wednesday, and I'm looking forward to it!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

Жыл бұрын

Be sure to say hello!

The flagellants going from town to town whipping themselves was on thing, but the flatulence were far and away the oddest.

In my home state of New Mexico, plague is not a forgotten disease. It is in fact endemic, something joked about. You could find tee shirts in tourist shops reading, ' New Mexico land of the flea, home of the plague'. In some ways the true start of summer in New Mexico is not heralded by the 21st of June but the first reported case of human plague. In my home town of Alburquerque our local annual science fiction convention is called Bubonicon, the mascot of which is a large rat dressed in sci fi garb, and named Perry Rodent; which is a takeoff of Perry Rhodan an old scifi adventure franchise. And there was an incident some 15 years ago or so; a couple from northern NM who traveled to New York in holiday and became ill. As I recall the wife died and the husband survived but lost both his legs. They had contracted plague at home, and left for their vacation before becoming sick and were not aware of their infected status. But one of the reasons it became as serious as it did is that New York doctors had no clue what they were looking at. Whereas if the had become symptomatic at home it would have been recognised very quickly. As it is endemic here NM doctors are quite familar with it.

History. As then as now. Replace Plague with Corona and all of humanities reactions seem all so familiar.

@tomspencer1364

Жыл бұрын

The sequence is denial, followed by minimization, followed by pushing quack remedies and punishment of scapegoats, finally general hysteria.

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

Not mention the loss of market share of an eponymic Cerveza...

If you forget history, you’re doomed to repeat it.

@endcensorship874

Жыл бұрын

If you actively ignore the past, you intend to repeat it.

@638taximan

Жыл бұрын

You can say that again!

I'm blanking on the name, but one of Tony Hillerman's novels revolved around the bubonic plague being passed on by prairie dogs in the Navajo Rez.

Well THG .. I luv your vids !

I'm curious about the perception, or even notability, of the outbreak in San Francisco in 1907. Basically, how noticeable would it have been or otherwise responded to being that San Francisco was in its first year of recovery from the devastating 1906 earthquake? Perhaps this is a prime reason why any news or mention of a plague outbreak in San Francisco that year may not have been of great concern or relevance to the population at the time; perhaps even if noticed/mentioned, the news of it could very well have been looked at like, "Just add one more contributor to the thousands of deaths that had occurred."

How ironic this pops up right now, my rural area in SW CO is currently under a plague warning, apparently some prairie dogs and squirrels have tested positive

@laurenceelisha689

Жыл бұрын

Where might that be? I lived in Dove Creek in the early 70’s. Your description seemed to match the description of that town and area.

@mikewhitcomb6558

Жыл бұрын

@@laurenceelisha689 Breen and Hesperus

thanks

In high school, while other good little students were doing research papers on the GNP of Nigeria or Robert Louis Stevenson, I was doing ones about the Elephant man.... And bubonic plague. People were surprised it's still around today. Yeah. I was a weird kid. Not much has changed. 😁

Thank you for this very relevant video! I do so enjoy your series!

I read an account of the 14th century outbreak where they noted that horse grooms rarely got the plague. Apparently fleas are less likely to infest horses for what ever reason. It was believed that the sweat of a horse kept fleas/disease away from those working in that profession? Worth a shot perhaps!

i called in sick from work today and open youtube to find a new video about the plague lol

Plague is endemic in prairie dogs all over the American west. Domestic animals can also be infected. There are usually 2 or 3 cases a year in Colorado, frequently from contact with dead animals. Because the initial symptoms are similar to the flu, sometimes people don't get appropriate treatment in time unfortunately.

I forgot to add - a FEW of us here might have had ancestors that survived the Black Death - coming from the British Isles. I had family that came after the Plague.

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

More than a few, if you consider the demographic swells of humanity since the Justinean and Elizabethan Eras...

Hey History guy, Thank you for the informative and entertaining program. I would like to suggest that you do an episode on the importance of History. It is often said that those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it. With your vast knowledge and keen intelect perhaps you could give an example of people who have made the same mistake more than once. Please, nothing gruesome. Thanks again.

@kevindunlap5525

Жыл бұрын

Super keen intelect.

TARDIS and original Dalek well done. Respect

Thanks.....Shoe🇺🇸

About 20 years ago they found a body that had died of the Plague ... in the desert of TEXAS.

Hey History Guy 👋 did you see the Cooperstown inductions yesterday?

Well,..... that's... bloody frightening! Lol Thank you. 😳🤔😉

Had a distant cousin wh became ill and died in San Francisco in 1904 after returning from a journey to China. Can't help but wonder if he had plague.

Last time i was this early there was a plague going around my humble hamlet of upper Shropshershire-chester

I now see how you do these History snippets. Jump in that T.A.R.D.I.S. and go to some time in the past. Gonna guess Tom Baker was your favorite Doctor... Please keep up the great work.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

Tom Baker was by far my favorite Doctor!

You should do Samuel Pepys. He saw and wrote about the plague in London in the 1660's and knew people who died.

@walkermitchell4444

Жыл бұрын

Trekker 😉

Thanks for the awesome content

So true. I noted that the Plague has been in the USA for quite some time. However, it is great to see that antibiotics can impact a variety of diseases.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Very informative. I have seen article of outbreaks of Black Death Bubonic Plague. I was also aware that one of the pogroms against European Jews was scapegoating them as the cause of the Black Death. Was the pogrom against the Jewish people due to Black Death scapegoating the first pogrom? It seems that it would be since it was about 600 years prior to the Shoah and there had been 600 years of pogroms. The history of the pogroms would be a be good episode. Perhaps such an episode would inform to the why European Jews did not resist the Nazis.

Couldn't help but notice the 2 very big armored shells standing next to the wall that is behind you. What is the history of these 2 shells?

Regarding media reports being rare these days, honestly, I had no idea it was still a thing in the U.S. today until I was reading on Yosemite National Park's website prior to a visit there and saw their advice for avoiding it and noting its prevalence in the area.

Back in the Saddle Again

When my young son learned of how the flagellants tried to avoid the plague, he asked me if they thought their farts would keep the plague away.

Last Summer (2021) there was an outbreak of Bubonic Plague on Colorado's Hiking Trails.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

Any rodent of the Southwest can generally be assumed to be a potential plague carrier. Several people also found out the hard way that keeping prairie dogs as pets is not a good idea.

@LazyIRanch

Жыл бұрын

I live on a desert mountain in S California. I have chickens and goats and always wear a mask and gloves when cleaning their areas because of rodent droppings that can carry Hanta virus and plague. That's why I already had masks when COVID came along.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@LazyIRanch , Hantavirus is probably deadlier than plague and, Unlike regular plague which requires a flea bite, hantavirus can be inhaled and kill you dead in 24 to 48 hours. There's no real cure or treatment that I know of. Fortunately the pneumonia variety of bubonic plague is much less common, And I believe both can be treated effectively with antibiotics.

@tomspencer1364

Жыл бұрын

@@LazyIRanch You are too sensible for this age.

I never leave the house without a pocket full of posies.

We may never know how history remember Covid 19

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

Жыл бұрын

One interesting thing about history is that it requires perspective. We might be living history, but we won't know how historic it will be until the future.

What are the large caliber shells you have in the background?

@Wildschwein_Jaeger

Жыл бұрын

Inflatable 88mm and a 17lbs from The Tank Museum. Check out the online shop.

At my orientation briefing at Vandenberg AFB, CA, in 1982, we were warned not to touch the ground squirrels because they had proved to carry the fleas that carried the plague.

And 1 thing we can definitely learn is history repeats itself. Hoarding of supplies, forced inoculations..... sounds familiar huh?

A pocket full of posies

Especially has had out breaks in USA

Plus ça change ...

Excellent channel !!!! Also, JimTheEvo channel a British MD has a series on history of infection. Also First concept of " vaccination" was in Turkey when Countess from England noticed no Turkish women had Small pox scars. This was long before Jenner . Maimonides ( Rambam) a physician for Salahadin brought effective medicine treatment s in from mideast which were far more effective. The church hampered progress in medicine and science in backwards Europe for centuries. Disease was said to be from " sin" witches etc. As a Jew I learned a lot about this. Rhineland pogroms.. We changed our prayer books on Rosh Hashanah not to throw bread in water or wells.. שלום

I don't know about the Ash Tree bark [2:57] , but Willow tree bark [genus Salix] was the precursor to Aspirin [acetylsalicylic acid]. ''There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your Philosophie.''

Plauge doctors are wonderfully horrifying. I would still poop if my doctor walked in looking like that. Actually, twice.

Cases are appearing in Inner Mongolia right now..

Just like Covid, it will never really go away

@mechanicaldavid4827

Жыл бұрын

Conflating viruses and bacteria is a good way to confuse the response to disease.

love the medical history! let's talk about BREAKBONE FEVER!

Have loved your content for ages !!!! Thanks for raising my paranoia just one more tick a little higher... Buah-ha-ha-ha-haaaa **cough**

The more I read about the bubonic plague, the more questions I have about it. Was it really the same disease? I think maybe there where 2 diseases and the one closest to our modern times was not the one that was in Europe around the 15th century and before. Is there any on-going investigation on this matter by anybody?

Sounds strangely familiar... 🤔

Fascinating insight as always! Thank you for NOT making any political comments about the current wave! Not everything needs a political spin! “Just the facts” Well done THG (and crew)!

@eagletalons5333

Жыл бұрын

The modern "Plague" (aka:politicians) are far deadlier than the 'plagues' of the past. You know dang well what you thought when you read the title, it's in your comment, nice try though!!

@ronfullerton3162

Жыл бұрын

Ah, reminds me of the old "Dragnet" tv program. "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts".

@backwashjoe7864

Жыл бұрын

He didn't even have to point out how similar the facts from the past are to the facts of the current wave. It so eerily spoke for itself.

Hi THG. I very much enjoy your videos, and I am a subscriber. In the case of the Bobonic Plague; I have heard it put forth that people who got the Plague and survived, strengthen their immune system, and passed this immunity on to their desendanrs. Have you heard this?

@WildWestGal

Жыл бұрын

You heard correctly. They they have done research through DNA to establish this as true.

@highpath4776

Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestGal As in DNA Varies exposed to plague, or some DNA gives a resistance to plague that survivers breed into the next generation/s ?

Sounds pretty familiar and relevant right now.

I think that is history we wish had been remembered.

Didn't the children's rhyme (below) stem from the plague? Ring-a-ring-a-rosies A pocket full of posies Atishoo, atishoo We all fall down

I live a short distance from Charterhouse Square in central London. This site, just outside the medieval walls of the City of London, was used to bury some 50,000 victims of the Black Death in 1348-9.

The children's nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosies" is in reference to the plague. Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes, Ashes We all fall down The first two lines are references to people thinking flowers would keep the plague away, as discussed in the video. The third line is in reference to the burning of the dead and various buildings, in an attempt to keep it from spreading. The fourth line is the children dying from the plague, despite the measures in the previous 3 lines.

👍

I learned a lot from this one. Had no idea that the bubonic plague still existed, especially within the US borders.

@MarianneKat

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I think autocorrect is messing with you

@goodun2974

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@@MarianneKat , "bonnet played"! 🤣

@wascallywabbit7102

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@@MarianneKat Yep! A quickie voice to text comment with a little auto-correct thrown in, and failure on my part to review and edit before posting.

Flying back from Hong Kong there was a thermal display of a person's bodily heat in the boarding area. This was in 2003 due to the bird flu. If you were over a certain temperature then you were not getting on the plane.

I remember, when I was deployed to Africa back in the '80's, I had to get a "Plague 1" and a "Plague 2" shot.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, WE ALLLLLLLLLLLL HAVE MONKEY POX!

The concoction of tree bark could have good implications. I point to first a gaff perpetrated by logic without testing. In the 1970s artificial surfaces for butchers and kitchens (often delrin (?sp) , thick plastic sheets and surfaces. You very likely have one in your kitchen as a cutting board. However,, some years later,, it was tested. Maple, and a plastic , well cleaned after dismembering a chicken,, Was tested for bacteria after cleaning. Immediately after cleaning the plastic showed slightly less bacteria. Testing at 24 hours after, the maple was nearly sterile,, the plastic had large amounts of bacteria. Maple has natural anti-bacterial properties. Maple sawdust has the potential of being and aid to wound treatment. Native Americans knew this medicinal properties of some plants. The second thing to point out. Honey has an astounding shelf life. Unpasturized honey has a broad spectrum antibacterial ability that is nothing short of astounding. Honey on your kitchen shelf, does not rot. And infusion of the inner bark of a tree, I would not want to bet against. And I believe, that IS where we got root beer. There is one for you to research. Willow bark IS where aspirin comes from

@mechanicaldavid4827

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Mixing up tree bark and sasparilla roots in a medicinal context is a good way to tempt THG to invoke the phrase "barking up the wrong tree".

@Sailor376also

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@@mechanicaldavid4827 Laughing loudly this AM. Thank you, David !

Thank you.