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Post by yggdrasil on Nov 17, 2019 15:02:28 GMT
foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-outbreak-pandemic/There have been three great plague pandemics in human history caused by the bacterium Y. pestis, spreading from Siberia and Mongolia, across Asia, and into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The first began in A.D. 541 within the Roman Empire, lasted two centuries, and was dubbed the Justinianic Plague. The second, the Black Death, spread from Asia into Italy in 1346 and persisted for 400 years, infecting most of the European population with such devastating outcome—50 million people died on a continent then inhabited by 80 million—that for centuries historians referred to it as the Great Mortality. The third pandemic began in the 1850s in China, spreading across Asia with such ferocity that India, alone, lost 20 million people. Pretty sure I never heard about the third pandemic.
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Nov 17, 2019 15:12:48 GMT
Exterminate China.
Many problems solved.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2019 2:36:29 GMT
foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-outbreak-pandemic/There have been three great plague pandemics in human history caused by the bacterium Y. pestis, spreading from Siberia and Mongolia, across Asia, and into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The first began in A.D. 541 within the Roman Empire, lasted two centuries, and was dubbed the Justinianic Plague. The second, the Black Death, spread from Asia into Italy in 1346 and persisted for 400 years, infecting most of the European population with such devastating outcome—50 million people died on a continent then inhabited by 80 million—that for centuries historians referred to it as the Great Mortality. The third pandemic began in the 1850s in China, spreading across Asia with such ferocity that India, alone, lost 20 million people. Pretty sure I never heard about the third pandemic. The question is, is it a natural outbreak, or an "oopsie" at a biowarfare lab? |
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Nov 22, 2019 11:19:52 GMT
The question is, is it a natural outbreak, or an "oopsie" at a biowarfare lab? Don't know about the chinese outbreak but I believe we are in for a new round of outbreaks as the arctic permafrost melts. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 6:09:21 GMT
The question is, is it a natural outbreak, or an "oopsie" at a biowarfare lab? Don't know about the chinese outbreak but I believe we are in for a new round of outbreaks as the arctic permafrost melts. I don't know about that. Since the "traditional" method of population reduction, IE massive wars, is off the table thanks to nuclear weapons, I'm leaning more toward a antibiotic resistant plague, or a rogue mutation, such as the Spanish Flu epidemic of the 20th century. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Nov 23, 2019 6:30:55 GMT
I don't know about that. Since the "traditional" method of population reduction, IE massive wars, is off the table thanks to nuclear weapons, I'm leaning more toward a antibiotic resistant plague, or a rogue mutation, such as the Spanish Flu epidemic of the 20th century. The problem with wars as a method of population control is it hits active, strong, males the most (i.e. those who will fight). This is not good for a population and is why many European populations have been left with the effeminate male gene, while the traditional, tougher male gene has disappeared. France suffered from this a lot and also Britain to a certain extent. This used to be a country with an army of world-conquerors, now we have an army of twitter whiners. And as for Germany, well the males there have lost all of the rational male gene and are now so weak they even think importing 1 million muslims into their fold is a good idea. They have so little male protective instinct in them, they have practically surrendered their women to invaders. Therefore, disease much better. |
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