Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases | Wondrium Perspectives

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Throughout the course of history, humanity has been marked by epidemics that wreak havoc on individuals, communities, and entire societies.
In this episode of Perspectives, five experts delve into some of the deadliest diseases that have shaped our world, and their far-reaching consequences.
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Clips in this video are from the following series on Wondrium:
What Darwin Didn’t Know: The Modern Science of Evolution, presented by Scott Solomon
www.wondrium.com/what-darwin-...
The Medieval Legacy, presented by Carol Symes
www.wondrium.com/the-medieval...
An Introduction to Infectious Diseases, presented by Barry C. Fox
www.wondrium.com/an-introduct...
The Middle Ages around the World, presented by Joyce E. Salisbury
www.wondrium.com/the-middle-a...
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, presented by Dorsey Armstrong
www.wondrium.com/the-black-de...
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00:00 Intro
00:42 The Evolution of HIV
05:47 Influenza: An Annual Threat
10:15 Smallpox: An Ancient Plague
16:09 The Devastation of the Black Death
19:57 The Social Impact of the Black Death
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[@peterwilliams6361]

Living with an incurable disease is so hard, but you just have to live life day by day as it goes by (Cancer sucks)...

[@TheBillythepoet]

The 1918 "Spanish" flu started outside an army base in Kansas.

[@rhiahlMT]

While I always enjoy Dorsey Armstrong's discussions on the Black Death, I wonder when the recent research by the French on Yersinia Pestis and the impact of body lice is going to come into the discussions on it. It was really eye opening.

[@t.anthony3940]

Easy to learn, not hard to follow. Reminds me of my middle school teaching!!

[@guff9567]

It's all propaganda. American cultural colonialism

[@arlistyner]

That would be Humanity's - the possessive form of Humanity. "Humanities" are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. If you're going to do educational content, speeling matters.

[@frustrateduser9933]

I thought it was a discussion about problems in universities. Probably wouldn't have been as interesting.

[@5tarLightASMR]

*spelling lol

[@arlistyner]

​@@5tarLightASMR I was certain when I deliberately misspelled spelling in my comment about spelling that everyone would recognize my obvious joke. Oh, well. Live and learn, I guess.

[@5tarLightASMR]

@@arlistyner Awww don’t sweat it! You’ll get ‘em next time, Sport! :)

[@dillardc81]

The universal basic income pitch at the end was a real turd in the punch bowl.

[@paurushbhatnagar8100]

There was another reason for epidemic mass killing of cats

[@craigcapen1728]

You can loose the liberal pushing Universal Basic Income. If you let this stuff start you'll loose people. Go woke, go broke.

[@joesweeney6152]

Humanities?

[@BooleanError]

This sort of basic error has become all too common in the age of universal spell check.

[@silentwilly2983]

No expert on the matter, but to me it sounds like the video suffers from serious recency bias.

[@tomorowsnobodys]

Half the video is about smallpox and plague???

[@kimberlymac4ever]

Your name is so appropriate.

[@swinger6606]

You mean Wuhan lab not bats for Covid

[@cptrikester2671]

Correct. This also puts into question, the entire video. Can't trust anything on the web. Stopped watching at this point.

[@varyolla435]

Ironic then is it not how SARS-CoV-2 genome = is mostly Horseshoe bat DNA........... Perhaps you should leave science to those better versed in it and forgo parroting talking points you likely got from so-called "conservative news" - an oxymoron by the way....... 🤨

[@BecomingLizzyBlue]

Ummm, did she say global cooling?? And then that tangent about not just universal healthcare, but universal income. I’ve yet to have a supporter answer one simple question. If everyone is being paid by the government, who’s providing the income? The closest I’ve gotten is the wealthy would pay for it. So not actually universal income, but just expanding the welfare system and thus widening the income gap further. Good plan. And yet another Wondrium video ruined by personal political opinions. How do these people not get that they just threw their credibility out the window?

[@stellarwind1946]

I turned the video off when they called Spanish Flu xenophobic.