Plague - History Hijinks

[@Cometstarlight]

“Cleo is sleeping on the next page of my script. I can’t wake her up.” Oogh, she’s so cute!

[@Crazyivan777]

Having just recently got a kitty of my own, I now understand! Must not wake kitty!

[@Grim_Sister]

Waking the kitty up? What blasphemy do you speak of, oh blue one?

[@angelamaggioncalda1923]

I have a cat named Cleo as well and got so excited when I found out during their last game stream. There is nothing so precious as a sleeping kitty. 😻

[@jasperdrawings]

Blue: sorry guys Cleo’s sleeping guess the rest of the video is canceled Me with my bearded dragon: goshdarnit Ali it’s not winter so stop sleeping for a week strait AGAIN! Get up you lazy lizard

[@pwnorbepwned]

You cut that sleeve for your Cleo, Blue!

[@izzy1221]

I have only been just informed of Cleo’s existence and she has already made my life a cuter place.

[@jordan5012]

Omg watch their Untitled Goose game live stream and follow Cyan on twitter (blooDanube) and Instagram (cyan_bakes) and you will see how cute CleoCatra is 🥰🥰

[@elmtutch1992]

Tabby❤️

[@blarg2429]

@@jordan5012 Her full name is CleoCatra?? Even better!

[@defensivekobra3873]

This is the New cutting your sleeve act

[@criesincryptid]

@@blarg2429 my boyfriend's cat is also named CleoCatra

[@tonyzed9123]

"Yo General what should we do with all these corpses?" "...Okay this is gonna sound wack but-"

[@yargolocus4853]

"**gasp* terrible news, commander! please tell, me. Did you at least safely retrieve my husbands body?" "..." "About that"

[@foxpower001]

"Did you gave your men proper funeral?" "Erh...."

[@mslightbulb]

foxpower001 comandar: CORPSE GO YEET

[@scepta101]

I’m now convinced this is how Mongols of that era spoke

[@d.n5287]

"I'm so angry I could hurl a dead body across the wall! **Lightbulb**

[@dragonvessel8412]

Blue printing out another copy of his script page because his cat was sleeping on the original reminds me of when a nobleman cut off a sleeve from an expensive shirt (I think) to not disturb their lover

[@lizvalentine6789]

😂 10/10 comparison. The original story is from ancient China where the emperor(i think) woke up and saw that his lover was still asleep next to him with his head on the emperors (very expensive) sleeve. Rather than wake him up, the emperor cut off the sleeve of his robe. Talk about big gay. Also red talked about it in one of her more recent vids

[@adeepseafish1238]

Elizabeth Valentine yup, and it’s honestly kinda cute

[@onyx7332]

and it was gay

[@FishBoneD14]

The Japanese version of that story is literally about a cat.

[@NightmareVixen12art]

There's a Japanese painting of a woman cutting her kimono because her cat was sleeping on it lol

[@JackRackam]

What a wasted opportunity that beak chic hasn't come back into fashion

[@Daonehelios]

Sup, Mr. Rackam. Give me your stylish hat.

[@jordanwolfe607]

We could bring it it back. I believe in us

[@Beacuzz]

It has now!

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

You've come!

[@non-bird-nary2420]

hilarious of you to say that when i have a plague doctor mask in my room hanging on my closet door

[@ascapedgoat8462]

I don’t think “avoid it like the plague” is a going to be a valid expression anymore. :/

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

LOL How come my "I Survived Covid-19" T-shirts aren't selling?

[@Ravi-xf8dw]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 because corona is not over.

[@Pollicina_db]

I doubt it😂

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

"Avoid it like reasonable social-distancing guidelines" -B

[@Tuaron]

It is, but it's going to flip meanings to something like "doing little to avoid the thing even though you really, really should - potentially even increasing chances of the thing".

[@steamdragon8550]

“Whatever the hell 2020 is doing” Bad things. VERY BAD THINGS.

[@merrittanimation7721]

*distant screams*

[@eym5671]

We’re just dying at this point.

[@chukyuniqul]

It just took Grant Imahara from Mythbusters this Monday ToT

[@323starlight]

Both on a medical, international, and political scale. At this point, I’m just wishing for a meteor to hit us and end it all.

[@mrhalfwit972]

2020 is on drugs

[@taxfraud5673]

Fun fact: Scotland was unaffected by early waves of plague while their rival England was hit severely. The Scottish King believed this was because God was protecting the Scottish and helping them fight the English. So he ordered his army to invade England. Once they got there soldiers started getting the plague retreated back to Scotland and spread the plague there. This lead to a great loss of life as Scotland didn't have the necessary preparations for plague response due to the thought that they were protected.

[@JRedNose]

faaaaaaail XD

[@tabithaalphess2115]

They probably would have been better off lifting their kilts and mooning them from a safe distance

[@jaimebibelot4398]

So the lesson from that is when other people are deep shit because of things they did to themselves, don't go trying to assert how much better you are over them. It just brings you down into the plague infested mud with them.

[@claremiller9979]

Turns out God isn't on anyone's side, what a concept

[@neardarkroad1347]

@@claremiller9979 uhh, that is not how it works.

[@marcobisi7768]

Fun fact: in my language "Black Death" is translated in the same way "Death Star" is, so when i talk about the plague i constantly think about Star Wars, this and more from the wonderful language Italian is!

[@alexandermackie7621]

I find your faithful devotion enlightening.

[@Fleshi_Guy615]

The fleas in 14th century europe: "Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle-station"

[@CodexQuinn]

​@@Fleshi_Guy615Leonardo Da Vinci, testing his new tank designs, circa 1500

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

​@@Fleshi_Guy615The Mongols about to throw their corpses into the city: (yes i read blue's comment but still)

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

*HISTORICAL ACCURACY ADVISORY*: In this video I describe the siege of Caffa (dead bodies trebuchet-ed into the city and infecting the refugees) as being the inciting incident of the Black Death. This account was first described by Italian chronicler Gabriele de Mussi, who wrote in response to the plague arriving in Italy. His account has more or less been the accepted story since the 14th century. In the course of my research, I found various sources casting doubts on the accuracy of De Mussi's claims - but as a matter of protocol, I prefer to stick to consensus wherever it is available (in my case, CDC analysis), as the last thing I want to do is pick up a new and unverified take on XYZ and present it as The True Story. When in doubt, I'd rather be wrong with an out-of-date interpretation than wrong with a radical hot-take. However! Since uploading this video, I've received a good amount of notes in the comments, on Twitter, and on the Discord notifying me that the doubts on De Mussi are rather more thorough than I first took them for. Essentially, De Mussi's account of Caffa is not an eyewitness account (we knew that) but follows a handful of tropes and cut a handful of analytical corners that make the entire scene of uh, how did I put it ... "Yeeting the s**t out of their plague-infested corpses," not in fact the cause of the infection, at best, and at worst is a wholesale fabrication. Previous analysis assumed that open-wound contact between the dead and the people of Caffa were responsible for transmission, but this may not in fact have been sufficient to infect the population and cause, you know, all the rest. The new conjecture hinges on rats entering the city from the Mongol camp and stowing away on seafaring grain shipments. This may explain why the ships leaving Caffa were able to go so far and dock at so many ports without any apparent trouble, but only suffered infections when the grain shipments were opened. Whatever the ultimate case, there is sufficient academic doubt about the traditional story I relayed that I should let you all know the narrative is not so clear cut, even after so many years. As always, I appreciate those of you who took the time to share this information with me. It's rightfully embarrassing to make a mistake like this, and I'll strive to do better next time. TL;DR: prooooobably not actually the mongol corpse-trebuchets that did it, might have been rats in grain shipments. Sorry.

[@danielhale1]

God on judgement day: "So the _initial_ reports were you launched plague corpses into a city to infect it..." Mongols: "We did what?! No no no we only murdered, raped, burned, tortured, and pillaged. Strike all those random plague deaths from our record." God: *stern look* "...And yet I'm going to include them on principle."

[@immaokoye]

@@danielhale1 😂😂😂😂😂

[@witheredbonnie9268]

Daniel Hale lol

[@ethancook7730]

It shows a lot of integrity and dedicated on your part by writing it this! I appreciate it

[@IanBoehmeME]

Wait, plagued grain! Arthas Menethil was right, the city was already infected! It's just a matter of time before they turned!

[@mutantmaster1]

"General, we have these plague corpses here. What do we do with them" "... *[YEET]* "

[@alxcus2962]

"Sir, what does tha-" *"YEET!"*

[@Syryu]

@@alxcus2962 "Sir I still don't understand what this, Yeet, means." *Mongol General grabs him* "Allow me to demonstrate then."

[@Arlinya]

I laughed too hard 😂

[@BlackEpyon]

Sees flying corpse... "JESUS CHRIST!"

[@bronzeblade776]

@@BlackEpyon "Here is something to believe in!"

[@theoneandonlyquasarsaurus]

“Oh no, you have contracted big dead” That’s rough buddy

[@poem3701]

YES!!! ANOTHER ATLA FAN!!

[@vitaurea]

splendid observation there sir

[@josieliebs]

Lmao I hope this is an Avatar reference

[@mermaidsarinia9229]

Ayyy! Atla

[@mermaidsarinia9229]

Shesha How does he like it? And do you like it?

[@MusicalHell]

This summarizes my social media feed right now. Lots of talking about plague and political upheaval occasionally interrupted by adorable cats.

[@HexManiacQuinn]

Wow, hi Diva! :D Currently experiencing that happy feeling when I see one person I follow is entertained/informed by another person I follow

[@erikthomsen4768]

Ahhhh. I see that you are a man of culture as well.

[@whitemoonwolf13]

this is like seeing a teacher out of school

[@ryoumakoushiro7447]

Soooo, it's the daily life, but with plagues?

[@OhtheHughmanity]

I wasn’t expecting you to be a person who watches this channel

[@michaeldaniels642]

"Only one more plague and we can summon Exodia" No, only one more plague and God summons Exodia to kill us all.

[@raymondjones7423]

Eh, theres worse ways to go (Represses years of MK fatalities, DOOM glory kills and Ms. Stevenson's Algebra class) .....trust me

[@jackofclubs6229]

@@raymondjones7423 FAM TRUE

[@slithra227]

He forgot good ole "english sweat" so we can actually summon Exodia already :D! At any time!

[@gangrenousgandalf2102]

Not if we summon Exodia first!

[@ridyreshuffs1822]

The best example of the old idiom “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.”

[@elizabethstreit5203]

and those who do are doomed to watch everybody else repeat it

[@teathesilkwing7616]

How else would you explain all the genocidal babies

[@Rachel-fi4sc]

Just wait until you learn about the Outbreak of the Black Plague in San Francisco in 1906.... It's pretty much exactly a repeat of the current day tbh.

[@fiend_shaped]

Blue: Oh no, my cat is lying on the script. Guess I'll have to print another copy! Me: Damn it, why can't I like this video twice!

[@Speed001]

You can

[@Krahazik]

True cat owner, must not disturb the mighty nap

[@mitsusah2612]

Yeah, I wish I had multiple accounts to like this video on...

[@NovaRuner]

Yes cats are cute. And they often take naps on things you need. P.S. also it might be nice if KZbin let us have more options for likes. I suggest: Like 👍, dislike 👎, love ❤️, hate 🤬, and laugh 😆.

[@Lovely-sc8gl]

Very fitting for the times, thanks for spicing up quarantine.

[@internetperson3436]

*cries in not new Zealand or any country that handled covid 19 at all*

[@Sacrengard]

@@internetperson3436 cries in human

[@Speed001]

LoL, spices

[@ianlilley2577]

I think Ive developed ptsd thanks to the lockdown, nice final straw.

[@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579]

History always has Reboot.

[@robbiecotton6827]

I think the phase “To yeet the sh*t out of their plague infested corpses” has to be my new favourite sentence

[@blarg2429]

“Oh no, it seems you have contracted big dead.”

[@robbiecotton6827]

That’s the worse kind of dead

[@isaacgraff8288]

Hey, don't knock it if it worked

[@postmodernguava9518]

My favorite anecdote about the Black Death is that the plague doctors were the first major practitioners of aseptic technique. Their masks were stuffed with flowers to ward off miasma (making them primitive air filters,) they scrubbed themselves down with soap before putting on their uniforms, only wore said uniforms in infected areas and cleaned them after removing them, etc. Their science was faulty, but the techniques involved were effective and their concepts are still used in medicine today. Compare that to the Victorian Era where a physician was thrown in an asylum for suggesting that doctors should _wash their hands._

[@DDlambchop43]

one step forward, two steps back; welcome to the history of medical progress

[@movieduck108l6]

I had a cat named Cleo who lived with me for her entire life even going back before I was born she only died pretty recently at the ripe old age of 17 so see another tiger cat with the same colors made my day thank you so much

[@KristiChan1]

Rest In Peace little Cleo! So glad she had a happy life with you.

[@michaellewis1545]

"God what am I doing" is basically my moto this year.

[@kereminde]

The same thing I do every year... ("Objective: Survive")

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

@@kereminde Try to take over the world! Oh... Wrong show.

[@tybuss6211]

The same thing we do everyday, hide in our homes and do whatever

[@lexiwexiwoo]

Mine is similar: "God, what are YOU doing?! Is this autopilot? What the hell?" Simple. Effect.

[@thesimplifestyle2022]

It’s the year’s motto this years too

[@kristenphang8587]

6:58 Can we just appreciate how blue decided not to disturb his adorable cat and printed a new script just not to disturb it. Cleo is so adorable!

[@Gauldame]

"I won't be dallying about the effects on Italy." BLUE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED...BLINK IN MORSE CODE YOUR GPS LOCATION. I mean hello there.

[@witheredbonnie9268]

Okay

[@doctordrizzles1281]

General Kenobi

[@zealousdoggo]

@@doctordrizzles1281 You are a bold one

[@keysliceace5015]

I don’t think he can blink

[@hannahcrossett3415]

Rescue Blur Squad 1, 2, & 3, move out! :) Red, feel free to call in the critters of your choice!

[@hannahkitts4284]

I had an argument with my friend the other day that is very anti-mask and doesn’t agree that we need any of the quarantining and restrictions, told me that we humans survived the plague, so we can survive this pandemic. I shot back with, yes, we did survive the plague, after roughly 3 centuries of sickness and 1/3 of Europeans dying. So we can get through this if we use the tactics they used (like quarantining those who are sick and reducing overall contact between people for a while) to not end up with this virus lasting more than a decade or a couple years.

[@nyxdrawsthings6847]

what did they say after

[@awthers4043]

@@nyxdrawsthings6847 prolly bullshit about OP being brainwashed by the government or smth

[@BlackWolf9988]

Well 3 years later its save to say that it was pretty much harmless and as deadly as a normal flu. Funny how people made such panic over practically nothing.

[@Ropetrick6]

​@@BlackWolf9988How many people died of Covid? How many people died because of limited healthcare capabilities thanks to being strained due to Covid?

[@Dusk_Shade]

@@BlackWolf9988*If your immune system ain't borked

[@hopeworld_2190]

In Conclusion: The Mongols: _Perish_ The universe: *uno reverse card* no you The Mongols: if we must perish then so do you

[@arcticdino1650]

Plague doctors: Hey guys, we finally made it to the party The plague leaving at the same time: oh hi Mark

[@neverendinglute3125]

The plague saw the awful masks, thought that it was the ugliest thing in existence and then just vanished

[@michaelscott6022]

"Let's do a video to take our mind off the Corona plague and talk about... the Black plague.... .....and next week is Spanish Influenza!?"

[@eyalhecht637]

Nobody expects the Spanish influenza!!!

[@carlosroo5460]

No, unless there's some classic story with that theme that Red is covering up next

[@sharonsloan]

Smallpox next week, lol

[@travislyonsgary]

I mean the Bubonic is resurgent again so its entirely relevant.

[@TsukikoLuna26]

yes please!!!

[@realnito6422]

“History Hijinks: *Plague* “ AH YES! What wacky hijinks shall ensue with this silly topic

[@someoneawesome8717]

Corpse yeeting

[@jasperdrawings]

Ahh, no place like the OSP comment section.

[@shaunlevin5081]

"Oh man this Virus is killing my mood and I need something to take this off my mind. Let's see what Blue is up to." Blue: HaVe yOu HeArD AbOuT ThE BlAcK PlAgUe?

[@timelorddialga815]

“And even rebellions” Hong Kong: I like where this is going

[@artemiswolf4508]

Italians while dying of the plague: Face masks but make it fashion

[@foxpower001]

To be fair we are doing that right now.

[@VayaKahvi]

@@foxpower001 I do make it a point to compliment cute masks I see to A: make the person's day, if not their whole week, and to B: hopefully encourage continued usage of masks.

[@josephperez2004]

Honestly, if I could afford a comfortable mask styled after the Plague Doctor version, I'd wear it near daily just for fun.

[@Bidmartinlo]

Normal human: "I must stay inside, avoid spreading my disease and get better." Actual normal human: "I am sick and now I feel the sudden urge to travel the world."

[@SabinStargem]

With our luck, Corona would join forces with Cordyceps. "Folks climbing street lamps and dying to spread the plague, coming to your town next week!"

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

@@SabinStargem GAgckh! Do not tempt Murphy!

[@beccag2758]

Legendary human: I must stay inside to avoid spreading disease, so I’m going to rewatch ATLA again🌊🌏🔥🌪🥬

[@drcoconut4263]

Becca G everything changed when the corona nation attacked...

[@SabinStargem]

@@beccag2758 As it turns out, being frozen in ice is the best form of isolation from the coronavirus.

[@harleylaufeyson6136]

Us at 2019: What’s the worst thing that is going to happen next year?! Now:We have returned to the medieval ages

[@Falxifer95]

Considering the current sociopolitical state of countries like Poland, Brazil, Russia and others, you'd be correct.

[@TheBdougs]

You live in a timeline where "Plague of murder wasps" got glossed over.

[@quinnsinclair7028]

@@TheBdougs We live in time where "proof of hollywood pedophilic sex ring that owned 11 daycares got glossed over. The murder Hornets seem like the least of our problems.

[@thesimplifestyle2022]

TheSlayFer C. T. In so many levels

[@georgethompson913]

@@quinnsinclair7028 Did they also totally kill themselves in prison?

[@meghanhenderson6682]

This video has aged remarkably well. Not remarkable because of the quality, it was always a good video, but remarkable because...we're living in the dumbest timeline.

[@nataleynakata3687]

Plot twist: the dumbest timeline IS our prime timeline, and the doofuses and screw-ups were the real friends we made along the way.

[@transientdaydreams]

Thank you for not disturbing the sweet sleepy baby. (She's so cute. I could cry) Also, I rarely enjoyed history in school (because of a combination of the flavorless presentation and the revisionist history often presented in the curriculum--my favorite teachers didn't do either of these, lol), but I love these videos. I've learned so much, and I keep coming back to them again and again.

[@jenniferbtoo9344]

“Oh no, it seems you have contracted big dead” Blue 2020

[@angelcollina]

Favorite line

[@jeanetten.s.8557]

The way he said it made me wheeze (4:30)

[@KanaidBlack]

"Somebody please invent medical school"

[@rishabhdave5773]

"Oh no, you have contracted BIG DEAD."

[@lizkruis674]

Maybe you should PRAY about it

[@heroicbreak2952]

Your free trial of life has expired

[@sabinamartinez7058]

*ded

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

Timestamp at 4:30, for anyone curious.

[@jananias2985]

I love Blue in this video. His voice is like “the heck is 2020 anyways” mood

[@thackerybinx437]

My life has been kind of shit lately and you and red are the ones who have been keeping me sane. I love history and mythology and seeing you make funny and entertaining animatics and videos out of some of the greatest fictional and nonfictional events of all time has really been keeping my spirits lifted and my anxiety at bay. You two do the work of saints.

[@qx102]

Caffa: Noooo! you cant yeet corpses over walls! Mongols: Haha corpse go go YEET!

[@blackout6772]

Kingdom of Poland be like: If you don't remember Plague, it didn't exist.

[@TheRezro]

Except Black Death didn't reach Poland until 1351 and did that from West.

[@compatriot852]

If you don't write about it. It never happened

[@nolongervisible5850]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[@jmercedesd]

The is no plague in Warsaw.

[@edim108]

@@jmercedesd more like Kraków back then, but yeah...

[@yakisawesome1496]

Of course it starts with the Mongols. Fun fact: When my older sister was teaching me history-stuff for the AP World History test this year, she told me to use the Mongols as historical context for literally everything because they always had a hand in everything that ever happened.

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

Yak: the enlightenment? Sister: MONGOLS Yak: the industrial revolution? Sister: MONGOLS Yak: The neanderthal disappearance? Sister: MONGELS ! Yak: The plaque ? Sister : MONGOLS and a port city

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

Stan. Cue to Mongol-Tage! -John Green.

[@typacsk]

And also Walpole.

[@prestonjones1653]

Julis Ceasar being stabbed in the face? MONGOLIA!!! *Throat singing intensifies*

[@yeboi1887]

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 actually, the enlightenment was caused majorly but people switching from a depressant (alcohol) to a stimulant (coffee), who’s seeds originally arrived in europe whan, you guessed it, mongols conquered everything.

[@RatthiasMaximus]

mongol soldier : *dies of plague trebuchet : *YEET*

[@Speed001]

And next they went on to violate the Geneva Conventions.

[@Krahazik]

@@Speed001 Somehow I don't think you can violate a set of rulles that have not been written yet...

[@AxxLAfriku]

ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very hot and big KZbinr girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 de*d orangutans oh nooo)! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid meidc

[@AnInsideJoke]

@@Krahazik Yeah, it's kind of more like "And they went on to show us why we needed to draft the Geneva Convention."

[@titansjojo1445]

The Mongols would find a way.

[@adrienconverset6571]

"wear your goddamn mask" Best conclusion ever. This is not debatable. Just do it. Just fkin do it.

[@DavidbarZeus1]

Sorry, but when doctors say only one particular type of mask ACTUALLY works, what's the point?

[@adrienconverset6571]

@@DavidbarZeus1 Say what now ? All masks help to protect other people from your own germs. They aren't all as effective, but they help regardless. Now, only very specific masks (N95) actually help protecting you from other people's germs. But since N95 are way more expensive than basic cloth mask, it's more efficient to have people limit their contacts with other people (social distancing) and use basic cloth masks to reduce their own dangerosity towards other people, while saving the N95 stocks for the medical staff who is in unavoidable direct contact with infected people. That's the very broad "how to slow/stop a pandemy"

[@DavidbarZeus1]

Adrien Bellaiche Not according to either the doctors or the mask makers. They might help when one has a cough, but that’s about it. Check what the makers of the masks say. At best they say they are effective in stopping the spread of bacteria, others only work to stop pollutants

[@adrienconverset6571]

@@DavidbarZeus1 You said one true thing : it depends on the masks. That being said, all textile masks, even the most rudimentary "t-shirt raised to the nose" still helps reducing the amount of droplets you expel. I don't care what "doctors or mask makers" say. I work in labs where we tested around 4000 textile masks, and we have the technology, the experimentations, and the experience, to say masks DO reduce the amount of droplets you expel outwards. It's never 100%, but it's not the goal here. The goal is "reduce it enough so the reproduction rate consistently drops below 1, and the pandemic extinguishes itself" So yeah.

[@DavidbarZeus1]

@@adrienconverset6571 Droplets are reduced, yes, but that doesn't really matter with diseases. They can spread simply because you BREATHE, and the masks simply aren't fine enough to stop viruses and bacteria that spread like that. If you cough or sneeze, sure, the masks will help with that, but why would you go out if you're noticeably sick? Besides all that, why are we terrified of a disease that AT WORST only kills 1 in 20 people that it infects AND has a known medicine to treat it, a medicine we have known works on similar diseases for 15 years? This particular versions of COVID is only novel because we haven't seen this PARTICULAR strain before, but the base disease is well known and we have effective medicines for the base disease

[@AnuAlsere]

Thank you so much for distracting me from the worries of 2020. The events of the Black Plague are so foreign to anything we've seen, I'm having a very hard time imagining what that'd be like. I take such comfort in knowing that something like this couldn't happen today in our better hygienic society that communicates open and freely at slightly slower than the speed of light.

[@Speed001]

"One more plague and we can summon Exodia." LoL, Plague 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@claremiller9979]

If this means all my devices get sick and I can't watch KZbin any more, I'm out.

[@patrickfrost9405]

China found another strain of Swine flu. We're almost there boys!

[@JonManProductions]

The music stopped when he said "OH NO, you have contracted BIG DED." CLEARLY THIS INTENT SAYS "USE ME IN OTHER VIDEOS"

[@sanzoku289]

"This video was a mistake" Good sir, Learning is never a mistake.

[@InExcelsisDeo]

"Oh, no! It seems that you have contracted.... BIG DEAD. You should.... pray about it.... or something...." Might just be among the top 10 best lines ever in anything ever.

[@natashyamoran8620]

You get brownie points for not disturbing your cat. That is so precious!

[@thegrandportfolio5915]

Medieval Europe: *has densely populated cities and no effective medical treatments* Plague: It's free real estate.

[@jamespocelinko104]

Blue: *Asks what 2020 is* Everyone: Me, an essential worker: Nothing changes, nothing ever will...

[@sebred]

Blue not talking about venice even though there is a valid opportunity? Is he alright?

[@carlosroo5460]

Maybe Red and Cyan made him an intervention.

[@AnInsideJoke]

@@carlosroo5460 That's just what I was thinking. Red's probably just off-panel waiting to whack him with a stick if he falls off the wagon.

[@TheOneGuy1111]

Oh, he couldn't help but put a little bit about it in.

[@bthsr7113]

Medito-philic addiction aside, no. He's not all right. Because this is 2020. Nothing is all right.

[@M.M.83-U]

Of course not, it's 2020.

[@zanek2005]

That map of Poland surrounded by the plague reminded me a lot of the “This is fine” meme.

[@angelamaggioncalda1923]

While normally I dislike adds in the middle of videos, I can appreciate the trolling of putting them right after Blue says the video is done due to Cleo cuteness

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

"We need escapism" *Procedes to talk about plauge for several minutes.*

[@yizao9289]

The Four Horsemen yea that doesn’t sound reassuring at all

[@XBLspartanx170]

I mean at least they were self aware enough to admit this video was a big mistake.

[@xavirangel3350]

The most burning question is: did Cleo take another nap?

[@taylor_green_9]

He just let her sleep and printed another copy of the script. Her nap wasn't interrupted

[@thunder_bug_1451]

Some say she’s still sleeping to this day

[@MeatGuyJ]

Cleo's a cat, so yes. I assume many more.

[@chesirecat2969]

"One more and we can summon Exodia" My god! This line! Also, come on, let's go get that last one and summon Exodia!

[@manufigola8433]

I kinda feel like exodia is not on our side of the battlefield this time though...

[@Speed001]

What should we call the next one? The Wrath of Ra, Exodia's Hand, maybe the Great Dying. The Pestilence!

[@azirul9311]

We can pull Exodia,use all of the dragon balls,find the one piece and have SAO Jesus kun at our aid and this year will still find a way to fuck us over,hell,all those things I said are probably against us too.

[@vanguardbreaker8826]

No, no, please let's not.

[@LighthawkTenchi]

Are we all forgetting how smallpox absolutely crushed the Natives in the New World, wiping out up to 90% of the population in spots? I think CV in fact is the effect of Exodia, and now we're getting Kaiba'd.

[@David-qo8zg]

This was the last lesson I taught my history classes before schools closed for covid. We’d already finished the 14th century months before, but I couldn’t resist going back and teaching it again.

[@Krylov223]

"Going full Amontillado and bricking up houses." Nice Edgar Allan Poe reference! My favorite and possibly the scariest of his stories.

[@servantprincess3079]

"But the thing is...it came back. A lot." *stares at all of 2020 and its medical related nonsense* Oh no. Ohhh noooo. _God help us all._

[@siriuspope3552]

Nice thing is, Y. pestis (plague) is now *way* more treatable with antibiotics, and the symptoms can be somewhat alleviated with modern medicine, assuming you catch it in the early stages of infection and you *don't* hide it like a zombie bite. That's ofc nothing to say of, say, smallpox, or any other 2020 nonsense but at least plague specifically is more containable.

[@woodfur00]

Sirius Pope Um friend I don't think that's what anyone's worried about

[@HunterHerbst]

woodfur00 oh no, I don't think he realizes. Someone should tell him

[@mathieuaurousseau100]

@@siriuspope3552 He actually fear covid might do the same thing as plague and come back a lot

[@robertdicke7249]

@@mathieuaurousseau100 Well it isn't going to just disappear. Either it will be treatable and odd ball cases will pop up here and there or it will come and go depending on mutations and general immunity. Unfortunately, if you haven't heard, they have yet to find a cure for any covids, not to a lack of trying. Call me a pessimist but I bet there wont be a cure and unless you are lucky each one of us will get it at some point. You will either have an effective immune system or not, and thus all efforts and sacrifices will go to waste. As a misanthropic nihilist and anarchist and am looking forward to seeing how modern mans efforts will shine through all this in the end, I wont it to really be a humbling experience that depletes faith.

[@MultiNaruto900]

"The Geneva Convention and United Nations haven't been formed yet so it's legal." - Some Mogol yeeting plague-infested corpses over the wall probably

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

You're telling me...that this all started...in a place called Caffa?! Cough-ah?!

[@apollomcchikennuggets2906]

Just Some Guy with a Mustache YoU

[@Heres_To_Music]

would you like some kava with that? *holds up an extra cup of coffee*

[@wossgwuanin8072]

Covfefe

[@blessiemasancay4818]

You're everywhere. You got ool tastes in content.

[@kingofflames738]

Blue: "Nuremberg" Me: "What? .... Oh, Nürnberg! I know that one!"

[@GrrDOOM]

The amount of brutal sarcasm in this episode is so powerful I don't think any video will ever top this in sarcasm levels.

[@nicholasblackstone8464]

What's the scouter say about it's sarcasm level?

[@RF-mc8cx]

3:23 You missed the opportunity to put 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' as the background music on this bit.

[@animalstudios158]

Welcome to 2020, the year of the rat! Don’t read into it.

[@ryoumakoushiro7447]

We're going full circle, lads!

[@witheredbonnie9268]

Ryouma Koushiro I agree

[@TheOverArchiver]

lol

[@victoriajankowski1197]

Except I thought they actually discovered it wasn’t rats it was gerbils in some areas....

[@katrinahockman5561]

You should know this made me laugh more than was really honestly necessary. Ah, gallows humor...

[@V1p3r65]

Blue: I won't be talking about Italy. Me: Who are you and what did you do with Blue?

[@MrDalisclock]

Red is probably standing by with a rolled up newspaper just in case

[@calamaria9624]

I love blue! He's so cool and fun! As well as red of course! His lessons along with Red's commentary and stories make me understand and actually make me feel invested in learning about their subjects they talk about! This also helps me alot in school. Thanks guys I owe ya! Also I just realised Blue reminds me of a certain theorizer of games wink wink!

[@RadishTheFool]

This was very interesting, and I love your style of presenting information (both visually and textually snappy and interesting). Also, 'beak chique' hit my brain just right.

[@bgcvetan]

Ottoman empire greatest ally: The Plague.

[@adambielen8996]

And European infighting.

[@larurentius]

Name a better duo

[@fnumbuh]

Just like covid is helping China

[@efnfen]

I thought it's greatest ally was the Recliner Kingdom

[@hirocheeto7795]

@@fnumbuh And let's just steer clear of that little clusterfuck you just tried to open.

[@chocibirdxx7691]

instead of perish, i want people to say "oh no, it seems you have contracted Big Dead"

[@kenyabrunson4985]

"Somebody please invent medical school." I laughed too hard at this.🤣

[@zenoobessed4553]

I just love how well the drawings and animation has gotten over time. It looks so good! Thank you Blue and Red for such great content.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

0:25 Being topical is how you climb the KZbin charts!

[@pearlexquisite935]

I hate how many parallels I'm seeing. Yes, of course I know there's been a huge improvement in medicine, but in events it's getting close. Started in China, took a nice and comfy sit down in Italy and is touring Europe, caused by people giving zero shits about how it actually gets spread, it can come back but the world is catching on and exists during some idiot government systems.

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

One could argue that many of the worst pandemics since the Plague have resulted from idiot governments that should know better by now. China is a frequent starting point because it is a BIG territory with LOTS of people, and interconnected cities. Also a tendency toward governments that favor appearance over substance (Totalitarian if you will), and punish "news that makes the local officials look bad." China isn't unique in this, just best recorded. The 1918 Flu is a modern example of that for the USA, and again 100ish years later.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

@@LRoseArts The irony of this statement is that when the news of COVID first happened Trump was in favor of locking down and restricting international travel and placing movement sanctions on China immediately, but everyone resisted the ideas and started calling him a racist/xenophobe because of it, all the while the WHO actively lied about the spread of the virus, suppressed the reports and analysis coming from Taiwan (as well as actively denying the existence of Taiwan as a sovereign nation) all at the beck and call of the Chinese government (not surprising, considering the WHO is ran by Tedros, a former member of the the Ethiopian Communist Party and was himself part of several cover-ups of disease outbreaks during their tyrannical rule over Ethiopia). And it was these lies spread by the WHO that were propped up and supported by much of the Left as well to decry Trump and call him a dictator for wanting to secure the borders against the oncoming pandemic. Then, when the disease finally arrived because of these policies they played dumb to it and proceeded to go full authoritarian on their lockdown policies, blamed Trump for their own policies for causing the virus to occur, and then when people started to demand the economy re-open they called they claimed those people were "killing grandma" despite the fact it was people like DeBlasio who were relocating people to nursing homes (The same DeBlasio who has actively targeted and persecuted Jewish communities during his administration). With all this also being compounded by both the constant flip-flopping on advice from Fauci and the rampant misinformation campaign involving Hydroxychloroquine, as well as KZbin and other agencies constantly banning videos by actual doctors trying to discuss and provide better information on the subject. Then after Georg Floyd all of a sudden everyone forgot about it, and those same politicians who were insulting and decrying actual peaceful protests for the economy to re-open were giving political immunity to violent rioters who decided to burn down communities, smash libraries, destroy statues of abolitionists and the founding fathers, and conquer parts of cities like the CHAZ while also demanding the disbanning of law enforcement. All the while said same politicians still refused to let businesses open back up again and encouraged people to stay home except for the rioters. Because apparently according to the politicians if you're part of an identitarian cult then that makes you immune to COVID, as evidenced by people like the mayor of DC. And some people are confused about why Trump would want to pull funding and support for the WHO. Really makes you think, doesn't it?

[@pathfindersavant3988]

@Enetheru1999 I think you mean "When he has time and time again allowed the states time and time again to botch everything else." You and I both know that if he did try to issue sweeping national lockdowns, which even then are of dubious legality to begin with, that the media wouldn't thrown a fit and used it as an excuse to label him as an autocrat "worse than hitler" and every other slur unde the sun. Further, such lockdowns and measures regarding internal movement are legally under the perview of state governments, which need I remind you did engage in massive authoritarian lockdown policies, many of which violated constitutional law. Also, the "hoax" bit is a statement taken out of context, if you actually paid attention to the speach you will know that it wasn't covid he was calling a hoax, as that would make no sense as he was was the one calling for better responses to it early on WELL BEFORE the democrats were even willing to acknowledge it existed. What he was calling a hoax was both the the media overreaction and misinformation campaign regarding it (which you apparently fell for) and the manners in which the LEft tried to take advantage of the situation themselves, such as with how they kept trying to slow down the emergency stimulis bills by instead forcing their own "stimulus" bills that were choked with dozens of trojan-horse proposals that involved forcing federal requirements for "diversity quotas" on businesses. Then again one shouldn't be surprised by such deciet, as we can see it happening again in California where Democrats have proposed a bill that removes their civil-rights legislature under what they call an "affirmative action" bill despite it not mentioning affirmative action in the slightest. Stop buying into leftist "journalism" and media that actively lies to you, and pay attention to actual centrist media sometime. Donald Trump didn't fail the US, the Democrats failed the US by bending the knee to the extremist far-left and the authoritarians, who would much rather constantly shout "orange man bad!" than address actual problems like the crippled economy, the growing threat of China (the people who caused the outbreak to begin with and lied through their teeth the whole time, and who actually do engage in human rights violations like concentration camps and are engaged in modern colonialism), and the dismantling of Hong Kong.

[@Moszan]

@James Harding Forget the KoolAid.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

@FlopFlop Have you tried not watching exclusively CNN? Perhaps you should watch content made by actual moderates and centrists who actually engage in critical thinking and journalism, like Time Pool

[@sentientmarshmallow4644]

7:04 blue: sorry have to stop the video for the cat Me: of course don’t disturb the kitty *goes to click off the video* Blue: resumes talking Me: oh yeah, um I knew that was a joke-totally

[@elijahpadilla5083]

It wasn't a joke- he mentioned in text that he printed an extra copy of the last page of his script.

[@ChiropteraVampyrum]

A squirrel in my town has been found with the bubonic plague. Which is exactly what I needed on top of you know everything else.

[@goingghost8297]

I hate 2020

[@AntediluvianRomance]

Just don't eat the squirrels, and you'll be likely alright.

[@Hellfire918]

Dude...rodents in the Southwest US have had it for years.....what we really need to be afraid of is China just had an outbreak of it & there's still that cave they won't shut with organisms that having seen the light in millions of years.

[@MeatGuyJ]

@@AntediluvianRomance you can eat squirrels, just not plague infected ones. Or their brain. Because that would put you at risk for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is a fun little disease that eats away at your brains until you go insane from dementia and die.

[@ElectromagNick]

@@AntediluvianRomance You realize it's the fleas, yeah? ... Or am I wrong? I don't know anymore, every time I say something the universe slaps me back into place.

[@Emma-sj6wp]

Blue and Red have quickly become my favorite Theater/Literature/History teachers this summer😂 Thank you guys for keeping my interests piqued and my quarantined brain entertained💞

[@Wolf-Rayet_Arthur]

3:11 and I'm gearing up for a "caffa started coughing" type joke. This is the 7th video I've seen from this KZbin channel and I feel right at home already

[@Wolf-Rayet_Arthur]

3:22 !!!!! 11 seconds later and it happens!!! Awesome

[@dylanuttam2881]

” let's get away from the worries of our modern world and talk about plague!” You know things are bad when you are sitting home because of a pandemic, and listening to the history of pandemics

[@paigewelch5653]

While your humor may be out of date (hopefully) in a few years, for the time being it is absolutely contagious, your love for history infectious.

[@quantumharmonizer3514]

6:59 That’s what ya get for saying cats had nothing to do Poland’s low plague numbers not a moment earlier!

[@martynap2930]

As a Polish person: we LOVE cats, everyone has a cat. Or 6. It is likely cats WERE responsible for almost no Plague here.

[@martynap2930]

Or, y'know, just the fact Poland can get pretty cold. Plague spread in South Europe mostly because it doesn't like cold.

[@blazerer2424]

@@martynap2930 Imagine posting this nonsense on a video literally telling you how it is nonsense. Rats or not, people would have travelled into Poland and spread the plague anyway. And Polish people would have moved around including outside of the border and spread it around also. Only a maniac can honestly think that somehow this magical protective dome in those times would actually exist.

[@adambielen8996]

@@blazerer2424 Notice she said that it kept plague numbers down not that it didn't happen. Because we know that Poland's population grew during the plagues and thus they must have been doing something right to protect the general population. i.e. people still got sick but just in low enough numbers that it didn't destroy the population.

[@kingnothing8570]

@@adambielen8996 I was going to explain exactly what you did then I read your comment thank you.

[@FidoFerrari]

China, 1347: creates Bubonic plague China, 2019: IT'S REWIND TIME BABY!

[@John_Weiss]

Nah, it's not the _nation_ of China that created The Plague. It's the _location._ There just seem to be certain places on Earth *_that are constantly trying to kill us!!!_* One of those places is southeastern China. Which also happens to be a great place for us humans to live and farm. (Gee, thanks Earth.) There seems to be another "Earth: makes place to brew up things to kill humans" location in the Amazon Rainforest. Which we're cutting down, making any "kill humans" hotspots easily accessible … what could go wrong!

[@John_Weiss]

@Axiom Steel Hmmm…perhaps. But I find that there's far too much blaming _Chinese people_ going on (at opposed to blaming authoritarian governments who have been making this mess). So, I made a non-accusatory reply to try and preempt any buttwipe who wanted to highjack FidoFerrari's joke for their own malicious ends.

[@justas423]

It's fitting how Plague Doctors as we know them are portrayed because of aesthetic masks.

[@Piper_____]

Honestly, it’s nice to hear people say stuff like “the EVERYTHING that’s been going on.” Good to know that I’m not the only one who has experienced that feeling Edit: spelling

[@kiratheusagiisworkshop5266]

"To whatever the hell 2020 is doing." MOOD. We have a pandemic, mother nature has lost her cool completely, celebs dies left and right and now bubonic plague? Geez 2020, chill.

[@kbye2321]

I think we already had these problems. We just had needed a plague to make us realize this.

[@discountchocolate4577]

@@kbye2321 The people who needed this extra warning the most are _still_ not listening, because as always they're the most insulated from the consequences of their decisions. If a couple million poor people die from this it's no big loss to the wealthy people who forced them back into schools and workplaces to prop up their declining profits. They can afford world-class healthcare for themselves and their families, and would rather have fewer poor and unemployed mouths to feed with their taxes. They'll probably also be able to continue exerting downward pressure on wages in the short run despite the reduction in surplus stock of workers pressuring them upward. If their power continues to go unchallenged by a meaningful organized resistance from the working masses the wealthy will handle the next inevitable huge wave of displaced climate migrants and refugees from throughout the tropics the same way: with Malthusian indifference and neglect at best or borderline genocidal apartheid policies at worst. It's consistently the poor, very frequently the nonwhite and especially the black and brown folks among them, who get hit the hardest but are the least culpable.

[@valentinarodriguez1177]

the bubonic plague didn't fully go away, there's still a few yearly cases in usa but there's antibiotics and things

[@Bluecho4]

To be fair to Mother Nature, her bad mood is entirely warranted.

[@angelcollina]

Very mood

[@SangoProductions213]

The funny thing about the quarantines: They stopped men from disembarking. They did nothing for the rats (except to give them more of a chance to disembark). Oh well. At least it was well-intentioned. And at least we got the industrial revolution out of the whole deal.

[@captncapri1094]

6:58 She's so precious! Cleo's a great kitty :D

[@AStangeSoup]

"They stretched out... into roughly everywhere." *laughs in British colonies*

[@yerabbit]

seriously, as someone who's watched a lot of documentaries about the plague, 80% of the info focusses on what happened in Italy. It always amounts to "detailed accounts of Italy. It spread elsewhere too, notably England. The end."

[@Celestial7Heavens]

I know right?! I always wanted to know how the plague affected the other European countries.

[@entirelygone457]

“Rick Stevesing across Europe” is the best new saying. I love that man.

[@simonkruger2187]

"O god what am I doing?" - your best Blue; and we love you for it

[@casualsatanist]

One of the things I often find morbidly funny is imagining a plague patient in the early 1700s waning in and out of consciousness and as they wake up in a bout of dilirium they see the horrifying sight of a man in a bird costume standing above them. That just makes me wonder how many people survived just because they thought they were seeing demons and survived out of pure spite

[@victoriablack355]

Blue: There was an outbreak every decade with a new epicenter. God: Lets see how you like Covids 20-29!

[@dynastyofdragons8892]

Nobody: Cleo: "I'm gonna just sleep right here don't mind me."

[@henrywong2725]

Fun fact about the Ming dynasty (the one that replaced the mongols in China) It is known as the dynasty where every emperor is a psychopath

[@GundiMike]

i feel like most plagues could be improved by having big cheerful skeletons walking around. brightens the mood at least

[@inconsistentbubbles7632]

"Whatever the hell 2020 is doing" "Oh no it seems you have contracted big dead" "Yeet the sh*t out of some plague infested corpses" "Had the added affect of *uhhh* plague stuff" "And effectively but Constantinople under house arrest" "To they liked Cats" Omg blue you never fail to make laugh lmao

[@LucarioNinja92]

Aaah...Cleo so pure! Also it's nice to see talk of other parts of the plague.