The Black Death is still the worst pandemic to ever hit Europe but I had no idea there were other population devastating plagues before it.
All of us alive today have been born to a heritage of people who didn't die from these pandemics that killed off millions without first reproducing. Sometimes I do wonder if this is nature, or the earth as a living being, shucks off humans when there are just too many people. Sorry! I'm not ready to die. Not ready to go! I don't want to kill anyone with my presence and I'm so tired of wearing masks and being so isolated. But sometimes I do wonder. Certainly climate change - unexpected weather patterns - and crop failures - starvation and malnutrition - make a person more susceptible to any illness.
EXCERPT: Europe needed 150 years to recover from losing 20 million people. The Black Death entered Hungary around 1349.
All of us alive today have been born to a heritage of people who didn't die from these pandemics that killed off millions without first reproducing. Sometimes I do wonder if this is nature, or the earth as a living being, shucks off humans when there are just too many people. Sorry! I'm not ready to die. Not ready to go! I don't want to kill anyone with my presence and I'm so tired of wearing masks and being so isolated. But sometimes I do wonder. Certainly climate change - unexpected weather patterns - and crop failures - starvation and malnutrition - make a person more susceptible to any illness.
EXCERPT: Europe needed 150 years to recover from losing 20 million people. The Black Death entered Hungary around 1349.
A popular image of the plague was this! Hey, have we started making masks that look like birds beak? Or is this a version of "The Grim Reaper"?
I now realize that my genealogy, one line that has the potential to go back to the 1400's, may be effected by deaths from Plague. I already know people in my lines died of smallpox, of TB, of child-birth, of long illness, and in mysterious ways. I have seen the documents where a priest writes in cholera - plague. But maybe someday if I endure and am lucky I will find the provable link to that potential ancestor who lived in the 1400's. Maybe I will find that some of my ancient relatives died of Bubonic Plague.
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I now realize that my genealogy, one line that has the potential to go back to the 1400's, may be effected by deaths from Plague. I already know people in my lines died of smallpox, of TB, of child-birth, of long illness, and in mysterious ways. I have seen the documents where a priest writes in cholera - plague. But maybe someday if I endure and am lucky I will find the provable link to that potential ancestor who lived in the 1400's. Maybe I will find that some of my ancient relatives died of Bubonic Plague.
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