Watching a literal lecture not a documentary on the Black Death and oh boy are we in for it
Holy shit this woman just spoke in Olde English that’s what it sounds like
Wait hold the phone did Black Plague break is out of feudalism just for corona to send us back
THEY WERE EXPERIENCING A PERIOD OF GLOBAL WARMING JUST BEFORE BLACK DEATH
Holy shit it also had 8 million different types of symptoms Jesus Christ is this second Black Death
The plague of justinian wipes out the remainder of the Roman Empire SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET WILD
We have got to stop contracting animal diseases we aren’t that strong
20-30% of people whose ancestors survived Black Death have natural immunity to HIV!!! What?!
Correction 10-20% not 20-30% just the same tho holy shit
Wait so there are like three kinds of plague going on one of which you drown in your own blood Jesus Christ
Another is your blood just leaking into your organs and shit fucking hell corona ain’t even shit
Man we would not have been a tough enough peoples to withstand this we are weak cowards crying about going to the barber
24 lectures?! Omg incredible I’m gonna have a PhD in Black Death after this bitches don’t talk to me I’m smarter than you
Black Death might have been anthrax
So Black Death was so deadly it might have evolved to become LESS deadly so as to not wipe itself out by killing off all hosts
The good news is we will have 24 lectures worth of info and theories on covid in 500 or more years
But also they still have no fucking idea what Black Death was so we might not be any closer to understanding covid in 500 years either
You couldn’t just walk around places in medieval Times you had to prove why you were out
I hate this idea that everyone was stupid in old times until EnLigHtEnMeNt like there wasn’t anything resembling science (or nevermind that whole cultures were more scientifically advanced than we were but that’s another convo) and that common people were totally fucking dumb
The average uneducated person in old times had to know 100% more than you ever will just to NOT die. You are not special.
THE BLACK DEATH WAS FUCKING WILD
This woman speaks like 86 languages. Shes so learned it’s inspiring
Talking about she read the odyssey when she “was very young” OK BRAINIAC
She’s talking about people “putting down” loved ones who contracted it like the walking dead. We need some medicine quick for this covid
Honestly this whole lecture is “actually people understood things” but also the way they totally fucking turned on each other we are going to absolutely do this
Look at these peasants standing up for themselves good for you peasants
Hahaha oh look what happened when they were trying to keep the economy going during the plague lol
Marseille had a mortality rate of 60% Jesus
Ohhhh I didn’t realize that anti semitism was such a thing with the Black Death? Was I supposed to have known that? I’m not surprised but I didn’t really know.
No fuckin way am I going to the salon or anywhere else in May tou people have fun this lecture is securing my decision to not leave this house for any reason that isn’t life or death necessary for the next 6 years
Do not fuck with plague
I stand by my statement that old timey people were very smart even when they thought smelling shit filled latrines would ward of plague. Remember even in our very enlightened time of COMPUTERS people are huffing bleach so
Who are this plagues equivalent of the flagellaters
The contemporary term for Black Death was Blue Sickness
This woman has so many brightly colored pleather blazers
Wow surprise nobility had way higher survival rates in England than peasants
Wow surprise if you were a peasant and died of plague you had to give your lord a pig as tax and wow so many people died the lords had too many animals and the value of pigs went way down bc of over saturation
Wow surprise the clergy wasn’t protected by god from plague and died as often as the rest of them
Filthy children running amok in the countryside infected everybody with plague lol
Holy shit the Scandinavians did human sacrifice to appease the plague by burying children alive jfc wtf
Jesus Strasbourg fucking massacred all the Jews who lived there Jesus Christ
You guys wtf my lecture is possessed
People were clamoring to the bars during the Black Death, too. Two guesses how they ended for them
People believed you could dance the plague. Everybody was fucking
Dance the plague away*
Even the nuns thought you could fuck the plague away.
I think this whole lecture will be about the prosecution of Jews during Black Death which I had no idea about until this course
The majority of of persecutions of Jews took place in German speaking places during the Black Death
Jesus Christ we have always just been utterly abominable wtf
Christ cologne is... wow. This is a whole horrific angle I never knew about the Black Death Christianity man jfc
Christ only the holocaust beat this as far as persecution of Jews goes wow
Plague waves would start in summer
Plague came back every ten year for the next 300. Corona, do not take notes
Why haven’t we given covid a cool name like Black Death, great mortality, great pestilence. Corvid 19just means corona virus disease discovered in 2019. Not cool, not interesting, doesn’t really do justice to the real impact of the disease.
Like if you call it something like Black Death people are not going to salons and restaurants.
English majors make yourselves useful and give this plague a cool and scary name befitting of its severity
They also didn’t have enough hospital beds for patients and put 3-5 patients to a bed and sometimes mobs would try to burn down “pest houses” which were like plague hospitals
A whole village quarantined for 14 months and like half of them died
There are between 2 and 20 cases of Black Death in the us every year and in 2015 4 people died of it
It’s argued that the Renaissance wouldn’t have happened for centuries later than it did if it for the plague and an outside catalyst was needed to put the faulty systems on full display otherwise would have kept trudging along. SOUNDS FAMILIAR
Jesus Christ this plague kicked Europe’s ass for 300 years lmao
Once plague was done they got their asses kicked by syphilis, small pox, and cholera and then the 1918 flu wiped out 3-5% of the world population
Damn Spanish flu took out 20-50m people worldwide. Black Death was 75-200m JESUS
Lmao this lady is like “bruh our modern world is PRIMED for a plague and wouldn’t go well” nice knowing you
Hahah this is pre-2017 bc shes like “don’t worry USA has good infrastructure to contain another pandemic it’s places with more political turmoil that are gonna be fucked” *laughs in 2020*
Black Death has been mutating to mimic salmonella and E. coli
This woman’s complexion is immaculate but I’m disappointed she’s wearing a regular (albeit still bright) blazer instead of a pleather one
The music lecture is just classical music so I’m gonna watch this one on the Celtic World bc Idk shit about my ancestors besides they were tougher than the Romans and people are very into Celtic inspired neopagan shit
Lol England colonized the shit out of Europe how very very English of them
I thought England was Celtic too?
“Phony” and “smithereens” are Gaelic words
This woman has the least amount of lips I’ve ever seen on a person
Oh yea they were in Britain I knew it
Celts we’re into collecting human heads so I know where my need to collect skulls come from now
The brits and Irish had no genetic relation to Celtic cultures in Europe
There was probably no such thing as “Celtic civilization “ in the sense that we think of it lol
The Greeks thought the celts were too gay 😂😂
This woman is so fucking dorky I love it I’m waiting for her to snort laugh and push her glasses up with her finger lol
Haha Greeks are little bitches
Cool lots of people hired Galatians as mercenaries bc they were so bad ass
Celt-Iberians used urine as mouthwash and apparently they weren’t wrong you can even buy urine dental gum today Bc it works but uh yuck
The Britain’s might not be celts? Well who tf am I then
I mean, I’m Irish Scottish Welch so I’m Celtic there but who tf are my British ancestors
Lmao the romans weren’t even trying to fuck with the scots 😂😂
Scotland was named after an Irish people, the scotti
Oh here we go, Arthur coming along to ruin everything
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