Lessons from the Black Death

As many as 200 million people died 700 years ago in the worst pandemic in history. What were the causes and consequences?
Seven centuries ago, the world faced its greatest pandemic. Up to 200 million people died in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe in the middle of the 14th Century. Between 30% and 60% of Europe’s population perished. It took two centuries for the global population to recover to pre-plague levels. What caused the Black Death? What happens to society when so many people die? What was the effect on those who survived? What are the lessons of the Black Death?

[@alangriffin8146]

Watching three years on, and one positive is the fluidity with which things switched to online. It really fast tracked that trend and now there’s really nothing you can’t do remotely

[@margiemiller2557]

I enjoyed your presentation,John. I recently read a book called "The Great Influenza" by John Barry. He enlarges upon the lack of any viable medicine before the 19th century when in Germany the Germans began to believe science and labs were the way medicine should progress. I found it very interesting! Many American doctors went to Germany to train because of that realization.

[@pegphillips6306]

Thank you for these lectures. 🤓💜. I’m wondering what John would think about Connie Willis’ novel Doomsday Book which is set, in part, during the Black Death pandemic. Published in 1992, the story is also set in 2054 during an influenza epidemic. Trigger warning: this book makes me ugly cry.

[@jasoncharles8651]

Thank you. You excellence in content is wunderbar!

[@glenn-younger]

It would've been great if this kind of presentation had been presented from our elected officials from the very start. Instead, we had so many news outlets and self-proclaimed "experts" and "influencers" throwing around so many wild numbers and non-science based theories in April of 2020, we catapulted ourselves down the rabbit hole to where people are doing the very thing you hoped we wouldn't do. Sigh... let's send Light and extend Unconditional Love to all those who are still living in fear and reacting to it with power games and mean acts of aggression towards others. Yes? As always, thank you for the work you do in sharing your knowledge.

[@xp8969]

I'm here from the future and I've got bad news, conservatives have gotten even worse

[@abraferrazify]

Excellent lecture

[@tombouie]

Amazing

[@PeterGriffinREAL4444]

interesting to learn how Chinese medicine and Arabic physicians treated the plague

[@rhiahlMT]

Unfortunately, Covid is now endemic. We'll never get rid of it.

[@xp8969]

This comment aged like milk 😂

[@ToolTam]

🌼

[@kankikankkinen2670]

Korona time people went partying and drinking small houses cause bar closed, Nostradamus was plague doctor and closed people in for weeks, nothing learned

[@bimboblacky]

Hey, buddy...COVID-19 *is* SARS

[@xp8969]

Nope 😂