PANDEMICS? THIS LIST IS ENLIGHTENING!

DAILY NEWS HUNGARY - TEN DEADLIEST PANDEMICS

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.

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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RETURN OF THE BLACK DEATH - THERE'S SOMETHING THE BUBONIC PLAGUE AND THE CORONAVIRUS-19 DON'T HAVE IN COMMON

And that is that the identical Bubonic Plague that killed 60 percent of the population of London within nine months and an estimated five million people in England in the early 1300's is still around now - in rats.  If a rat manages to pass it on to a human, which is extremely rare, antibiotics work.  The Black Death was probably a mutation.

I highly recommend you watch this film, which includes the archaeology of digging up burials to examine the skeletons for possible clues.  It's understood that while this plague started in rats, it transferred to humans and then it was human to human contamination.  What we're trying to avoid with Coronavirus-19.

What the statistic were dependent on was not just the evidence of mass burials but also the fact that documents exists - WILLS and the equivalent of DEATH CERTIFICATIONS - for so very many people, people who were common, such as cobblers and candlestick makers.  People got sick and had maybe 3-4 days to live so they hand wrote their wills while they still could.

Scientists have discovered that CLIMATE CHANGE and the MALNUTRITION that followed were a significant factor in IMMUNITY and who died.  It had rained every day for months, meaning food was scarce.  The bones and teeth of those who died sometimes show evidence of this malnutrian.

A question is, how, with so many people dying all around and so many graves being dug did the living go on? The surprise is that King Edward III took charge.  He managed society so that it remained stable enough for people to continue to obey the law rather than let chaos and terror rule.  For one thing, though the burials are extensive, people were buried with respect and some religious ritual.  They were placed in graves and then a layer of grave was covered over with red clay!  This may have sealed in the disease in the grave.

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