What It Was Like To Live Through History's Deadliest Pandemics
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Date: 2024-11-01
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deeya
Apparently the next pandemic will be much2 worse. C19, for all the chaos that the global shutdown caused, wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Don't get me wrong, it was still bad, people died. But still, there have been higher fatalities as shown in the video. But that is largely attributed to the advances in science and tech that helped us minimize C19's effects (and even then 7 - 30 million died because it was such a super-spreader. Can you imagine C19 with 1900s health and hygiene standards, AND with 2020's attitude regarding public health and misinformation
You were saved thru the advances of soap and medicine. To you door-licking Karens, I hope that it's at least quick for you. Because the next event is projected to not only also be a super-spreader, but unlike C19 potentially highly fatal.
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Apparently the next pandemic will be much2 worse. C19, for all the chaos that the global shutdown caused, wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Don't get me wrong, it was still bad, people died. But still, there have been higher fatalities as shown in the video. But that is largely attributed to the advances in science and tech that helped us minimize C19's effects (and even then 7 - 30 million died because it was such a super-spreader. Can you imagine C19 with 1900s health and hygiene standards, AND with 2020's attitude regarding public health and misinformation
You were saved thru the advances of soap and medicine. To you door-licking Karens, I hope that it's at least quick for you. Because the next event is projected to not only also be a super-spreader, but unlike C19 potentially highly fatal.
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celticlass8573
Wow that painting at 3: 26 I've seen a few times before, but really never looked super closely. It REALLY does a good job of illustrating the constant horror they went through. There's an abandoned backgammon game on the ground, a legion of skeletons held back (sort of) by shields, a guy pierced with an arrow shoved into a dead tree, skeletons pulling people out of their graves (I'm assuming, not burying them, what looks to be the king lying on the ground, with a skeleton wearing some knight's armour, pillaging the king, a huge container with a cross on the top, where people are crowding into, but skeletons are on the top, holding the door open, horses that look carnivorous. Wow.
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Wow that painting at 3: 26 I've seen a few times before, but really never looked super closely. It REALLY does a good job of illustrating the constant horror they went through. There's an abandoned backgammon game on the ground, a legion of skeletons held back (sort of) by shields, a guy pierced with an arrow shoved into a dead tree, skeletons pulling people out of their graves (I'm assuming, not burying them, what looks to be the king lying on the ground, with a skeleton wearing some knight's armour, pillaging the king, a huge container with a cross on the top, where people are crowding into, but skeletons are on the top, holding the door open, horses that look carnivorous. Wow.
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weird_history
Maybe I am alone with this, but I DETEST the background music - its volume irritates the %&%%(/ out of me, because it is loud enough/ has so many poignant instruments in it to be able to compete with the speaker -> total distraction from the content which I wanted to listen to! Please do better for your slightly hearing-impaired (andpi$$ed-off) single aggravated listener. Thank you!
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Maybe I am alone with this, but I DETEST the background music - its volume irritates the %&%%(/ out of me, because it is loud enough/ has so many poignant instruments in it to be able to compete with the speaker -> total distraction from the content which I wanted to listen to! Please do better for your slightly hearing-impaired (andpi$$ed-off) single aggravated listener. Thank you!
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cschmitz
Considering how big cities are now and how much travel happens in between them it makes me wonder what pandemics we've not encountered because of modern medicine. There's always tons of opportunities for something to pop up and spread and considering how connected and close the world is now it's amazing that it's not happening all the time.
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Considering how big cities are now and how much travel happens in between them it makes me wonder what pandemics we've not encountered because of modern medicine. There's always tons of opportunities for something to pop up and spread and considering how connected and close the world is now it's amazing that it's not happening all the time.
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btetschner
I am going to watch the Weird History videos:
x How You Could Have Survived the Black Plague
x A Day In The Life Living With the Plague
x What It Was Like to Be a Body Collector During the Black Plague
x What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague
x What Happened After the Black Death Ended
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I am going to watch the Weird History videos:
x How You Could Have Survived the Black Plague
x A Day In The Life Living With the Plague
x What It Was Like to Be a Body Collector During the Black Plague
x What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague
x What Happened After the Black Death Ended
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ives3572
This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change. - Pierre Poilievre
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This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change. - Pierre Poilievre
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btetschner
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink!
Drinking Sprecher Orange Dream soda. while watching this Weird History video
Inspired by the Weird History videos about soda.
It is a 16 oz glass bottle that can be bought at Menards.
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Having ANOTHER Weird History drink!
Drinking Sprecher Orange Dream soda. while watching this Weird History video
Inspired by the Weird History videos about soda.
It is a 16 oz glass bottle that can be bought at Menards.
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weird_history
2020 wasn't deadly. No where near. The only thing it killed was the democratic party. The whole thing was a loyalty test to see how far they could go with dictatorship-like edicts.
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2020 wasn't deadly. No where near. The only thing it killed was the democratic party. The whole thing was a loyalty test to see how far they could go with dictatorship-like edicts.
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celticlass8573
Can I just say, I'm SO glad modern pandemics no longer result in semi or fully-nude people wandering around or lying dead in the street It just seems so inconvenient!
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Can I just say, I'm SO glad modern pandemics no longer result in semi or fully-nude people wandering around or lying dead in the street It just seems so inconvenient!
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atreyu4ws
You don't need to censor butt cracks and boobies in classical artwork. That's just pushing the false narrative of demonetization due to X on this platform.
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You don't need to censor butt cracks and boobies in classical artwork. That's just pushing the false narrative of demonetization due to X on this platform.
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DavidJohnRedwood
It could well be an epidemic not unlike those discussed here that wipes out all or most of our species. One we cannot get immunity for in time.
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It could well be an epidemic not unlike those discussed here that wipes out all or most of our species. One we cannot get immunity for in time.
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MrPGC137
And the inconvenient truth that no one wants to admit is that masks in 2020 proved to be no more effective than they were during the Bubonic Plague.
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And the inconvenient truth that no one wants to admit is that masks in 2020 proved to be no more effective than they were during the Bubonic Plague.
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krono5el
europeans just carry plagues and diseases like no other, they are pretty much more closely related to plague rats than any people in history: P
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europeans just carry plagues and diseases like no other, they are pretty much more closely related to plague rats than any people in history: P
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roberthofmann8403
Is this a third narrator It kinda sounds like the new guy gets so many complaints, he changed his voice to try to sound like the OG.
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Is this a third narrator It kinda sounds like the new guy gets so many complaints, he changed his voice to try to sound like the OG.
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MWEric
forgot the PLANdemic of 2020-22 and they're Hungry to invoke another the first not giving the numbers they wanted it's all about Control.
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forgot the PLANdemic of 2020-22 and they're Hungry to invoke another the first not giving the numbers they wanted it's all about Control.
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JOGA_Wills
I got a bad case of the flu for the first time at the beginning of the year for 3-4 days, I can see how that could kill people.
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I got a bad case of the flu for the first time at the beginning of the year for 3-4 days, I can see how that could kill people.
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