The Return of the Black Death: The Plague of Children

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Arnaldo Teodorani
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shannon Harris
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Further reading:
Histories of the Plague:
books.google.com/books/about/...
www.jstor.org/stable/4139605
www.jstor.org/stable/23406498...
The records of the bishops of Winchester: orca.cf.ac.uk/3975/1/CHP8_Mul...
Critics of the bubonic plague theory:
quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag/977...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Supporters of the bubonic plague theory: www.jstor.org/stable/4139605?...
The Bishop of Aarhus and his medical advice: www.gutenberg.org/files/42686...
Mass Grave in Lincolnshire: arstechnica.com/science/2020/...
Societal effects of the plague: www.jstor.org/stable/24623408...
The Welsh poem ‘Haint y Nodau: pure.southwales.ac.uk/files/2...
Commemoration_in_Late_Medieval_Wales_DHale.pdf

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[@snappy_one9120]

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[@Erin-Thor]

Biographics - (edit, might be more appropriate on one of your other channels.). Please consider asking your team to look into modern resurrection of once thought dead viruses thanks to global warming. The video I watched showed a map of the world and focused on the areas once frozen but now thawing thanks to global warming. In those areas of once frozen for millennia areas, they had (I forget the colors) blue shaded dots for bubonic plague, red for anthrax, green for Spanish Flu, etc. larger dots represented more deaths. The dots are all over the globe, representing small clusters of once thought dead viruses, that are warming up and infecting living animals and people. The kicker was at the end... ALL of those viruses were prevalent before modern travel. They took the incubation period, projected the infection rate given air travel, and put BIG DOTS OVER ALL OVER THE GLOBE. This is not something to panic over, but it sure as hell is a way of reminding us of what could happen. 😱 Keep up the good work guys!

[@sepjansen1245]

Biographics Wait... how is this commented 1 month ago?

[@Erin-Thor]

Geest en Co - There’s a fault in the time-space continuum.

[@jakegreenwood4805]

“The Plague of Children” sounds like a name of a British parenting book.

[@pup1008]

Upper class. It would be "The Blessing of Children" for those having Benefits increased by them!

[@Emily-ye1rj]

Or Nazi Germany

[@danielcurtis1434]

Maybe an alternative title for “Lord of the Flies???

[@jeffersonott4357]

Solid burn👍

[@charmaintrout174]

😂🤣🤣😂🤌

[@trivialtrav]

A regular modern adult with just a high school education would instantly be one of the best doctors in the world if transported back far enough in time. Assuming the church didn't burn you for heresy of course.

[@neonfroot]

Idk. They did have advanced medical knowledge, although before the Dark Ages. Human civilization has faced a couple resets.

[@AutisticAthena]

@@neonfroot the understanding of those systems was horribly warped by superstition and local metaphysical beliefs. The humors of the Greeks, Chi of the Chinese, ect. They cut up bodies and mapped anatomy, but the understanding of those systems wasn't great

[@lydiaives733]

The modern adult would not fit in. Communication would be difficult. Id think most would be suspicious and cautious. High chance of being detained, Possibility of reasons that someone would denounce the mordern day person for being too different. It would be like treading on eggshells being in that era. Trying to teach others new radical ideas to them and proving your words to anyone might take the modern person a life time for a single or few methods to be adopted

[@peachysrcandgames5824]

"Just rub some dirt on it" was a way to stop bleeding until surprisingly recent (compared to the 1300s)

[@sammehlberg6664]

​@@neonfroot dark ages were a misnomer. Define advanced medicine, I don't think I'd call it that.

[@quicklern818]

"...and thousands of children died. You know what can't catch the plague? Squarespace!" ---Simon

[@IAmAnEvilTaco]

It’s got an antivirus, duh.

[@RankinMsP]

😆😆

[@ericjianuzzi3448]

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[@fukkitful]

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[@Kerriangel]

“First you feel a little poorly And then you start to swell Then you start to puke some blood And then you really smell Then you know it’s time to ring your funeral bell Along comes Mr Death and swishes you to Hell.” Horrible Histories Plague Song

[@alexysq2660]

Ooh: 'tis catchy, that ({ ; D ...!

[@gdaymate7316]

H,H great & funny show, read all books to and im a old bloke. Cheers from OZ

[@obamaprism9702]

I see you are a man of culture as well

[@wrongsalvation8904]

The fact that you quoted the song from Horrible Histories has endeared you to my heart. Bravo good person Bravo

[@dervy5935]

HH was my childhood I see you are a person of taste

[@XShadowAngel]

As a parent, I don't think I could go on with life if I lost 4 children to a pandemic. I can't even imagine how utterly soul crushing that would be.

[@flyboy152]

In those times it was not uncommon for people to lose several children, so they were more used to it. Even without the plague, infant mortality was fairly high.

[@jondobbs69]

As a non-parent, I feel you though.

[@melissaharris3890]

Not that parents didn't love their kids as much as we do today, a child's death wasn't as shocking. There was at least a 10% chance one of your kids would die shortly after birth. And a greater chance one would die before 5. It was an excepted part of life. I would of died at 6 months if it weren't for antibiotics. (Whooping cough)

[@Blackfox_Kitsune]

its horrible to think of, and i hope that you and any other parent never has to suffer it, but you would likely go into survival mode, where you just keep putting one foot in front of another and keep going because that's what you have to do. and back then just about anything could end the life of your child. work or house hold accidents (yes young children worked), illnesses we vaccinate against now or have been eradicated thanks to vaccines and better living and medical conditions, to starvation and malnutrition, these were all commonplace back then, but not as prevalent now.

[@GBfanatic15]

not only that but imagine living through a pandemic that carried off your parents only to lose your children to it

[@magnusgreel275]

The poet's description of his children's deaths is chilling :(

[@sloshed-rat]

A creative mind who knows much hardship is a macabre and desolate place.

[@jaggerwatkins9216]

"Senseless death breeds panic. In turn panic breeds violence. Violent crowds need scapegoats"

[@maggiee639]

*Scapegoats (not trying to be an asshole, just letting you know so you don’t” bone apple tea” yourself by accident)

[@jaggerwatkins9216]

@@maggiee639 No thank you. Actually I wasn't aware that my phone decided to create my "bone apple tea" comment. It's been doing that a lot lately with certain terms and it's actually starting to aggravate me 🤣

[@maggiee639]

Jagger Watkins I don’t think it’s just you. It makes me crazy too, I’m not an idiot I swear! 😂

[@jaggerwatkins9216]

@LeeAnne S If there was anything to make up 🤔 Are you okay ma'am? I feel there might be some delirium involved.

[@jaggerwatkins9216]

@LeeAnne S Ah I get it now. No that's my fault as well. I could of used Leonard from Big Bang Theory with the "Sarcasm" sign only in this case it would read "Joke".

[@doggedout]

"The plague is caused by an invisible creature, in the gut of a flea...carried on rats." "Damn, you told us to kill all the cats (witch's familiars!) last year!" "Ooops...my bad."

[@mangot589]

Or we can just not kill the ones we have😉

[@mercenery1232]

Wasn't he the Pope -san. Mannn he really misinterpreted the voice of god .

[@marymeisiek7706]

Lol! Epic fail!

[@mangot589]

Maria Kelly Plus, it’d be pretty nice😉. Poor kitties.

[@arnowisp6244]

Except it wouldn't have made much of a difference other the fact that fleas will just move to cats to people. Even places that didn't kill cats still suffered the Plague.

[@DoReMi123acb]

That segment with the Priestly medical scholar trying to decipher and recommend precaution for the plague is quite fascinating. Many times we like to denounce the ancient era as primitive but despite the difference in technology and science, they were still observative of their own environments and usually managed to find ways to treat illnesses and catalogue them. Amazing creatures we humans are.

[@fukkitful]

Yes. It always intrigued me that people were about to produce Ayahuasca over a 1000 years ago. They somehow figured out that a certain combination of plants brewed down for hours would make you trip balls. Plus you had hunter who know what poison would kill an animal yet wouldn't affect the meat. Makes me wonder how they figured out the meat was still good. You'd be crazy to eat a poisoned animal. so I wonder if they were crazy or actually tried to test it by giving it to another animal to see what happened.

[@monroerobbins7551]

Yeah! It weren’t that they were dumb, they were learning, and at a different stage of knowing about the world, relatively.

[@dr.altoclef9255]

There were some ideas of the past that were remarkably close to what we now know. Many medications we now use are derived from natural sources like plants. It may be that the idea of the old witch brewing potions simply derives from older men or women who discovered that chewing on bark of certain trees or eating certain mold-type fungi would make them feel less ill. There are some myths in Japan, for instance, that some diseases were caused by tiny creatures that got into the body, attacking organs or sitting in the stomach to eat all the food that comes down. While more literal, we do know that tiny creatures can get into the body and consume the body's food (in the intestines rather than the stomach) or attack the body (in a more chemical manner generally-). Some early psychiatric treatment relied on the idea that restricting blood flow to the brain causes damage to it(which IS true-), and that perhaps increasing blood flow to the brain might heal this damage.

[@debbylou5729]

I guess this is common. People were just as smart as current people. The phrase, 'it's because we stood on the shoulders of giants'

[@fukkitful]

@@debbylou5729 Newton was referring to himself, but it still fits.

[@Tracy-xe9zu]

I'm not a kid person and don't have any of my own, but man, your description of how it must have felt to be a parent at the time was just heartbreaking.

[@danshiba1498]

reads title: my brain: "*softly* dont.."

[@erikburzinski8248]

2020: I will wait for 5 minutes

[@stargatis]

😂🤣😂 the horrors we want to see

[@yes0r787]

ikr

[@Aconitum_napellus]

Y.Pestis hasn't gone anywhere, and there are periodic outbreaks in parts of the third world today. There's also the chance that a antibiotic resistant strain may evolve and there was evidenced found of this in Madagascar in 1995.

[@simonesmit6708]

@@Aconitum_napellus l've heard that there are are regular cases in Mexico and in the LA area.

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

"The plague of children"...means something COMPLETELY different to a parent.

[@henrysmommy7]

😂

[@seanspindleshanks2529]

Dammit, you got to that joke first.

[@lovelessissimo]

My first thought.

[@spawn-pt8yp]

What does it mean

[@lovelessissimo]

@@spawn-pt8yp You'll know when you're a parent.

[@carschmn]

I really enjoy hearing about medieval medical advice. The person from Aarhus was total wrong on other things but nailed social isolation and social distancing.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

The advice of the Bishop of Aarhus is one of my favorite things to remember about history- Ancient people were not *stupid*, the world is hard to understand, and they did their damn best. And you can see a lot of that in how his *understanding* of the plague, and what to do about it, is all strange and impossible to us... and yet every once in awhile there's a piece of it, like avoiding swarms of flies, or other people during a pandemic where you go "Ah, right, that's the bit that the sciences have vindicated." You see pieces of their advice that make sense to us now, even if the sense they tried to make of it doesn't, because they *saw things that were true*, and did their best to understand them, they didn't ignore truths right in front of their face out of raw superstition, but they might've missed things because of preconceptions or not having enough background knowledge to put it all together.

[@WillyKling]

Both the old testament and the Quran advise isolation in case of plagues. The mechanism of spreading is so obvious. But yet, some people today deny the existence of contagions. I have a hard time understanding that level of intelligence.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:40 - Chapter 0 - "Previously on the Black Death" 6:20 - Chapter 1 - Return of the darkness 10:10 - Mid roll ads 11:40 - Chapter 2 - Deadly vapours 17:40 - Chapter 3 - And i was left feeling betrayed and stunned 24:05 - Chapter 4 - The final conundrum

[@manicmechanic448]

Ring around the rosey. Pocket full of Posey. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

[@krispalermo8133]

C-19 .. ?

[@ericworley4361]

@@krispalermo8133 the song Ring Around The Rosie is actually about the plague. Ring around the Rosie refers to the rosie-red (or purple-ish) round rash marks on the skin -the primary sign that a person had the plague. The pocket full of posies is a reference to the many types of flowers and herbs/holistics that superstitious people carried to try and ward off the plague. Ashes ashes, we all fall down is essentially just a way of referencing the fact that so many corpses had to be cremated since most everyone who contracted the illness died. There is an older alternate version that instead says achoo achoo we all fall down, as sneezing was one of the earliest harbingers of the horror to come.

[@krispalermo8133]

@@ericworley4361 Cool reply. 1st.) The song in of it's self was a coping mechanism in dealing with the mass death at the time. One group of historic view point is or was since I first heard it back in the 1980's as a grade schooler. It was mental/ emotional conditioning the young in accepting their in coming deaths. The other view point was the children were just making fun of their surrounding adults fears. I had to deal with Southern hell fire & brimstone Baptist Church in the 1980's living in Florida. They in the lest or most part a bunch of fear mongers End of Days type of people. 2nd.) The government leftist social media are push the Fear that C-19 is worst than the Black Death. If you are old enough or spent enough time back checking history of the past 30 years. Our world was going in end in 1999 or within the first few years of the early 2000's. Sadly I wasted most of my teenage years chasing after all the " End of Times " books in the 90's. Such as Polar Pole shift, new ice ages, the whole coast line flooding. Along with new killer plagues wiping out 80% of humanity. It was all bull crap.

[@mirta000]

@@krispalermo8133 I find the opposite. I find that the governments are not informing sufficiently the consequences of C-19. Majority of England is now against any extra possible measures and is not following masked guidance because "it's just a flu". Meanwhile 1/10 of those that fall ill seem to transition into what NHS now recognises as "long C", or "chronic C", where their health steadily and painstakingly declines over months and they get a whole load of immune system related conditions and complications. With one such man waiting for biopsies tomorrow with me here, as his blood slowly turns to acid and doctors just shrug, I know that way too many hospitals in the region are over-exerted and too busy and that majority of his workplace landed in a similar situation. With the ability to contract said virus again, give it a few years until we figure out how many of our working age adults got taken out and made disabled. Effectively, we're sleepwalking into large percentage of the population living with chronic illness and no-one is taking it seriously.

[@krispalermo8133]

@@mirta000 I had to deal with " pneumonia " as a child and lost so many school days I had to do summer school to make up the lost days or be held back a grade level for over five years. Most of the bull crap was school officials being dicks and if I was home school I would not had to deal with the officials power tripping. So as an end result I study " germ & bio weapon " warfare as a teenager in the 1990's. Do to suffering from " heredity bronchitis " inhered from my Irish/ Dutch grandmother that leads into " walking pneumonia " if the symptoms are left untreated . I got into studying the reasons as to why given sicknesses effect given ethic groups of people. Longer story short, last winter of 2019/2020 there was around eight different types of pneumonia hitting my area. The surrounding counties lost around close to 50 senior citizens, they were not listed as " flu " death. Also reading in between the lines of the vary media broad casts before the C-19 panic lock down went in to effect. Spain, Italy, and Greece had a total of nearly 20 different pneumonia strains recorded this start of winter season. And such coverage went dark over the " Chinese Flu " out breaks in those countries with little " China Town " communities. Also in my local area for the pass six years, they have been a minor " flu " lock down, where unless you are really feeling sick with symptoms they did not want you going to the E.R. or the V.A. do to spreading or catching the flu or something stronger. But if something is not " shoved " into your face many times each day. Remember the panic that grade school children where having cause the media was showing " 9/11 " planes crashing into the twin towers. So the children where scared that there was planes " still " flying into buildings. Also they found out over the years, when they give too much coverage on mass public shootings, they started having " copy cats " going for their own five minutes of fame. As a few " right wing " video commentators pointed out over the years. " Why is it the that politicians want to push into effect a gun bill they work on for over the pass ten months, their is Always a mass public/ school shooting ? Also all the shooters are on some form of medication which turns out being investigated for harmful mental side effects. With government/ business insiders always seems to block or buried media coverage on. These are simple questions if we are in fact dealing with a lethal global pandemic , .. a.) Stay at home lock down, to prevent the spread of the virus. " Why haven't the hundreds or thousands of " homeless/ cough, cough, Bums been dying on the sidewalks or in their card board box homes ?" Honestly we have videos posted on YT of homeless people off their medication being shoot in the back by the police in California, why not dozens or hundreds of people with red eyes, running noses, and going through the shakes from cold chills. b.) Peaceful Protesters, in mobs of dozens to hundreds this summer and none of them seem to be effected by any kind of virus other than stupidity. You are right about one thing or a few things, if C-19 is a hoax and the funds wasted could have been used to treat other more serious illnesses. God people love their fear porn. On a side note, due to air traffic, trains, and truck drivers it only takes little of a month for any virus to circle the global. China had their shut downs of protests in Hong Kong and a few area spots in their country back in last November, people started showing sickness in Italy in Early December and the whole lock down started in mid January. By that time C-19 was in fact everywhere by that point. Also due to China's smog air pollution, people in China nearly always wear face masks and it did nothing to help stop the spread of the " flu," same way/ thing being with the Spanish Flu.

[@elhombredeoro955]

Last time I was this early the Black Death had still not reached Venice.

[@DIY_Miracle]

I know it! It was those dirty rotten Genoan's again trying to steal our trade!

[@christopherseton-smith7404]

@@DIY_Miracle And all our plunder and loot from Constantinople.

[@rominazarei744]

'It is not wholesome to go into the city or town.' 'Wholesome'

[@WillyKling]

It is still not.

[@JDEhlert]

The slower spread could also have come from the fact that the previous plague killed so many people that travel itself was slowed down.

[@valsptsd814]

I’m even 6 minutes post release. You’ve become quite the Cult Leader, Simon. 😁

[@pleasureincontempt3645]

@Val’s PTSD The plague again. brought to you by Squarespace.

[@chiyohanson4332]

It's due the shirt he's wearing. It's my favorite.😁

[@treydodson4726]

Biographics are good for asynchronous learning. Thank you for adding to my history curriculum. I hope any of my previous request will be considered.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

He should do a video on the cult of we’ll.. himself 😂

[@treydodson4726]

@@ComradeCommissarYuri Cult of Personality is the perfect theme song for Mr. Whistler.

[@MuhammadAli-uv9lf]

Simon, my shattered tib/fib thanks you for your dedication and follow through.... all I get in this hospital is the history channel If I watch one more hour of people looking for bigfoot I'm gonna lose my mind. Subscribed

[@wilhelm_carstens]

Oof, that sounds like absolute torture.

[@Emily-ye1rj]

Or learning about how bigfoot was totally an alien. Ancient alien theorists don't know the word "No"

[@___LC___]

Are you all healed and have you had your hardware replaced, yet?

[@romz1]

Anyone alive now, your ancesteors survived through all these plagues and pandemics. 💪

[@PlanetYokoshima]

Or croaked

[@GrandTemplarVigilant]

What about those whose ancestors Lived in the Americas They only had 1 to really worry about

[@bradleymoore2797]

@@GrandTemplarVigilant Haha. Numerous diseases were brought to the Americas, including smallpox, bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, the common cold, diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis, and pertussis. What did the americas have that was brought back to Europe? Syphilis. xD

[@eggplant7593]

Romz and we aren't 💪😤

[@GrandTemplarVigilant]

@@bradleymoore2797 I was talking about the fact that they only had to deal with syphilis until the Europeans showed up

[@BeastnHarlotDFO]

Simon dearest, how I have missed you so...

[@walkingonsunshine1568]

lol marry him why don’t you

[@BeastnHarlotDFO]

@@walkingonsunshine1568 I'm only looking to live inside his beard; property values are rising quickly

[@walkingonsunshine1568]

Cole Buzzell good point, I can’t argue with that

[@antonkovalenko364]

One of the busiest men on KZbin.

[@fullyrekt1538]

Miss him...he has over 9000 different channels

[@michaelhowell2326]

Without even trying this is the 6th video in a row that Simon hosts. He is the British Empire of KZbin.

[@insulaarachnid]

This was so thorough and so interesting! Particularly appreciated hearing about the socio/political impacts & changes from the disease.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

"All we can say for sure, is it wasn't caused by the G5." *laughs maniacally*

[@ZeoViolet]

Makes sense. The ones that survived the plague the first time would be immune to a further pestilence of the same sort. Their children, on the other hand.... :(

[@dsnodgrass4843]

The funny (odd, not amusing) thing is, Ebola taught us that the human child is the most resistant human to communicable disease; with by far the strongest immune system. Most of the few people that have survived Ebola and Marburg so far were children. This makes Y. Pestis all the more terrifying.

[@kazumablackwing4270]

@@dsnodgrass4843 it's really not surprising that children have among the strongest immune systems.. they're practically walking petri dishes for the first decade of their lives, at least, so their immune system gets no shortage of practice. Y. Pestis was likely so devastating for the same reason that smallpox was to the western indigenous people...it was a new pathogen that they had no defense against

[@neonfroot]

@@kazumablackwing4270 Elders are literally germy folks. As are dogs.

[@ZeoViolet]

@@dsnodgrass4843 When the parents survived the Plague the first time but lost all their children, it was tragic. Ten years later, they've had more children, and life gets back to normal, only for those children, not immune like their parents were, to be cut down all over again. :/

[@BitterComments]

I was so happy when I saw that you finally made this video. Then I was horrified by my happiness regarding dying children 😂

[@QuackingKing]

I was so transfixed by Simon’s beard that when he said “more about Squarespace in a bit” I heard “more about Squarespace in a beard”.

[@zeusathena26]

🤣🤣🤣

[@DavidMorris1984]

Loved the line about 'an outbreak of marriages'. Another great video. I always look forward to them. :)

[@jackfergus7437]

I've seen plenty eps of this show. The way you told the story of Y. Pestis was brilliantly done. Bravo :D A story well told is better learned. Not needing to be melodramatic or overly expressed, especially in this case and you nail it.

[@MM-kx2vp]

Dear BIO, your word choice and descriptive phrases are brilliant. One example I can recall is ‘...when it kicked down the doors of Italy’. Something like that anyway. Your delivery of horrible circumstances is always done very dryly and really appeals to my sense of humour. Well done - it’s very interesting to listen to any of your subject matter.

[@nickim6571]

Ironically, "venomous humours", aka respiratory droplets, did spread the pneumonic form of the plague, and those vinegar soaked bread masks probably did help, since they would have provided a physical barrier to the droplets.

[@WillyKling]

I bet you wore a mask 4 years ago.

[@nickim6571]

@@WillyKling ABSOLUTELY, and I didn't get COVID until this past December when everyone let down their guard.

[@WillyKling]

Good on you. I've had it at least 12 times now and for some strange reason I am still alive. Weird huh?@@nickim6571

[@WillyKling]

Lost my job because I did not have one but hey, that's hysteria.

[@WillyKling]

AI can figure out what we are talking about, so can't really have a discussion anymore.@@nickim6571

[@kiratheusagiisworkshop5266]

Learning history has never been more interesting. I keep getting recommended your videos and I keep watching them one after the other.

[@grizzlybexar8177]

Love you hosting these mini docs. I've learned a lot. Enjoyed it even more. Thanks & keep the great work. Oh, BTW....what kind of watch are you wearing?

[@joanbaczek2575]

Maybe the woman survived the second wave better cuz they did all the cleaning chores in essence washing their hands

[@user-fq4hj8yv2z]

Maybe

[@lalehiandeity1649]

How does that protect from fleas?

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@lalehiandeity1649 fleas lived where rats lived, ie in the granaries, in the fields, in the barns and refuse piles where the men worked. The women stayed in the houses, spent less time where the rats did, and kept themselves cleaner, all of which prevents infection

[@lalehiandeity1649]

@@emilybarclay8831 Washing one’s hands doesn’t protect them from fleas, but staying inside does, is what you’re saying.

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@lalehiandeity1649 yeah, basically. And remember, fleas were the primary vector but not the only way to pass infection, cuts, scrapes and wounds could get infected with other diseases as well as the plague and the last thing you want is a compromised immune system when the plague does get in

[@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski]

This is one of your most informative videos especially the contrasting between prior plagues, noting of major societal changes wrought from the plagues, and finally covering the modern theory that the black death plague might've been a conjunction of viruses.

[@denebkaitos7511]

"And I was left, feeling betrayed and stunned, barely alive in a harsh world." god, just... the agony and devastation conveyed by the poet's words is so intensely palpable you can almost *taste* it... the poor man must've been gutted... the loss of not one, but all four of his children? I wouldn't wish that pain and grief on anyone...

[@eliasskellas3579]

Great video and the scenes from "the seventh seal" most appropriate, especially the "danse macabre".

[@Maceman486]

Simon Whistler: "The Pestilence" SCP-049: (Heavy Breathing)

[@g_majano5681]

A long sleeve shirt company should sponsor Simon. The shirts are always on point 👌🏼

[@kristyburgess9847]

I'm an Aussie and I've always been fascinated by this case. Thanks heaps for another great video 😊

[@edylcnostrebor9722]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us all together opening up our own eyes and minds to help us to understand

[@ARIXANDRE]

Putting this one in the playlist "Don't Watch While Eating".

[@billorights5390]

I miss your videos Simon. Ive been too caught up in my country's politics with the upcoming election.. Time for me to take a break. Thank you for your awesome videos my dude!

[@robbiegunn7356]

Thank you for providing a reading list!

[@alexharney3269]

Wow! 👏👏👏 you did an amazing job on this! Breathtaking narration! You deserve an award for this my guys!

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

Man, sitting here watching this while sick with covid really makes me realize how trivial this current pandemic is lol

[@donaldnaber7546]

8:18 you say 1630 and on screen 1360.... happens to me all the time. :-)

[@jamesdowner]

Beat me to it!

[@skidmark2704]

Lol that was the one time I actually looked at my screen

[@NikhilChaudhariimbevda]

Haha even I thought I Heard it..Simon misses his Lager..

[@danielhaigler556]

The power of dyslexia... It has done me no favors in life either

[@mouloudboukhalfa247]

Oh Simon, It's so freaking good to see you again!

[@tpeterson9140]

whenever I wanna learn about something I know Simon got me covered. Excellent work as always!

[@sydneyfairbairn3773]

My family lives in California. Rats and mice love to move into our houses. A good ratter is still needed. My mother has a 20 pound cat that I picked out for her when he was a baby. I saw how smart and determined he was. He has killed the rats that have lived in her garage for years.

[@SharpWits2013]

Another video about the Medieval Thanos snap? Love it!

[@RejectedInch]

The final touch in the end was priceless.

[@peterbustin2683]

Fascinating as always ! Thank you !

[@neighborhoodcaptain790]

Well, it’s 2020 afterall💀

[@ruairiodonohoe2533]

Ohhhhh, thats bad

[@PawelSorinsky]

Corona is an information pandemic. It killed about 3 sets of daily births in 10 months.

[@thepowerpoutageguy]

It's nowhere near as bad as the Blackdeath.

[@njd4291]

Yeah 2020 is heaven compared to the black death.

[@Cj-xt6tv]

It’s not even comparable stop fear mongering

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

26:19 bad time to dig up plague remains

[@BrandyHoelscher]

Thank you for the well-timed ad placement. Things got heavy.

[@pinkdragon6281]

Been waiting since the first video for this!!! I’m so glad it’s finally here!!!

[@vanessathomas7437]

Even centuries ago, people realized the importance of quarantine.

[@allangibson8494]

The Black Death was why it was invented in Dubrovnik. It was 40 days of isolation in special quarters.

[@nosuchthing8]

Everyone but trump

[@flowerpower8722]

Not really.

[@danshiba1498]

you look at today and everyone bitches and moans when theyre told to stay i doors for 4 weeks

[@trollsports7829]

@@danshiba1498 hey bring me food&supplies and i will gladly stay in quarantine for 4weeks

[@julesfoster3289]

Reminder: Ring around the rosie is literally a children's rhyme used to this day, that's about the Black Death. Posies were one of the many herbs and flowers used to try and ward off bad humors, hence "pocket full of posies". And "ashes, ashes, we all fall down" is... uh... I think you get the idea.

[@kathleenking47]

We boomers, but does YOUNGER kids know this? (too many on smartphones) Like London Bridge is falling down?

[@sys-foster]

​@Kathleen King im one of those millennial yall seem to think are the world's stupidest wastes of space. And yeah, I absolutely know this fact. And I know this fact BECAUSE of my smartphone that yall have somehow decided are evil, despite most of yall having them too. Also, hilarious to me that you are being rude to "young people" on a website that was created by said young people 😂

[@ujjvalw2684]

​@@sys-fosterCalm down Zoomer

[@cassthea18]

Great video as always! I would LOVE to see you cover the Baghwan Osho or Albert Speer!

[@bethwatts2408]

Timing is everything - as we are currently in the grips of another pandemic and the children are about to go back to school.

[@dpvisser]

Simon, a small correction: around 8:18 you mentioned that Jean Glenisson noted that the plague his Poland in 1630...but underneath it says 1360. I trust that it should be 1360? Just a technicality to an otherwise great video! :-)

[@hariharanyuvaraj1754]

He has a minor case of dyscalculia. Don't mind him.

[@lp.shakur]

@@hariharanyuvaraj1754 well when getting educated about things I do mind him, because we wouldnt want people stating false facts do we?

[@notcharlie8763]

LPSkates ok karen

[@BigTimeLibra]

Reasonable critique, I don't think anyone is getting up in arms about it.

[@ck8191]

To be fair, if you are actually trying to learn and are paying attention then you would realize that all the dates are in the 1300s and it was obviously a mistake. It would make no sense for that date to be 1630 vs 1360. Also, it was on the screen.

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Ah, wasn’t the age of miasma theory a great era.

[@--enyo--]

Yoda Don’t forget the four humors.

[@alexcarter8807]

Don't forget the theory of spontaneous generation, which meant horsehairs left in water would turn into worms etc. If it looked like a small living thing, it might turn into that thing.

[@jedimasterearhart8886]

Yoda, since I was a kid I heard of your wisdom, now I see that it was more than they told me. May the force be with you

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Honestly, miasma theory wasn't far wrong. It basically argued that corruption of the air, water, and earth caused disease, and now we now that there are a ton of air born and water born pathogens, and some that can lie dormant in soil. The problems were mostly with some of the things they thought could prevent it

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Amy well miasma wasn’t any of that, it’s just “bad air”, but we found out that’s not at all correct, yes there are air borne diseases, but that doesn’t make the theory anymore correct. Early germ theory proposed other sources for illnesses, like water borne and food borne.

[@josephschultz3301]

The background piano whenever you were stuck quoting insane medical advice is very much appreciated, Simon xD .

[@sagardous]

that deadpan ”Of course” KILLED ME

[@JennaMaBob]

I'm new, and I've already binged on a dozen of these videos! ! 👍👍👍 like minded people might also enjoy the youtube channel called "that Chapter" he gives an in depth view of curious murder cases and missing people. Great content!

[@TechSupport900]

Only the great Simon Whistler can use his holy Biographics Healing Powers and his Real Name To Defeat The Black Death, His Luscious Beard Now Almost At Rasputin Levels Can Easily Defeat It.

[@MisterMonsterMan]

Actually, just cleaning your trash and not defecating in the streets pretty much does the trick.

[@TechSupport900]

Also that

[@purpledefault4423]

@@MisterMonsterMan but mostly Simon Whistler

[@normalguyhere9158]

@@TechSupport900 Also, HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR CHIN 🤣

[@TechSupport900]

Mommy says it’s a strong chin for a strong boy

[@taju999]

Simon, do you own youtube or something?😅 Keep subscribing to your channels and yet the new ones keep popping up! And let me say - not one of them has dissapointed me. Great work, thank you!!♡

[@thomasweatherford5125]

Outstanding as usual Simon!

[@yungtoolshed251]

Ryan Reeves, a history KZbinr did a fantastic video on the Black Death that discusses how the plague managed to spread so quickly and how organizations like the church reacted to the spread.

[@fredkruse9444]

16:08 The "Dance of Death" scene ending the film "The Seventh Seal." The noble knight Antonius Block has finally lost his chess game against Death, and Death leads Block and followers away, implying that they have all contracted the plague.

[@charlesmellish316]

Forgot to add, I love this stuff you do a great job..

[@mrsrimskie5493]

I really enjoyed this..very informative, thanks 👍👍👍

[@wawerukamau6242]

I yelled out loud "Goddamnit!!" when i heard that familiar phrase... "it started in China.."

[@jandrews6254]

And was brought by ship.......either cruise liners or aircraft

[@misiopuchatek152]

6:22 I'm from the Southern Poland, Krakow exactly. Do we know exactly why did that happen? Not enough people per square meter? No trading routes? That's really amazing that two places in the devastated world just went through that without enormous losses.

[@Val-du7wb]

Brilliant and informative, thanks.

[@ayakotami3318]

I know from a few people that they weren't aware that the famous children's song "Ring around the Rosie" is based off The Black Death. Each sentence refers to something about the plague like "We a fall down" refers to people dying after several days of suffering. I'm so glad I didn't live back then. I feel sad for the families that lost children. What terrible years.for them.

[@lotrdude13]

"...it wasn't caused by the G5" It's actually 5G, but that's funny lol

[@888johnmac]

i guess if Simon said plague & 5G in the same sentence you-tube bots would instantly de-monetise & not recommend the video

[@williamjeffersonclinton69]

Alex Jones *Heavy Breathing Intensifies*

[@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness]

I think Simon might have a slight case of dyslexia. He also said “1630” while the date 1360 flashed on the screen. And he always, the words, says them out of order

[@fchouzal]

Allegedly !!!

[@tecni-cal]

@@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness he actually mentioned this on business blaze. He said it's always numbers

[@charleslarrivee2908]

Haven’t you already covered the Black...ooooh right this is Round 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@michaelward3110]

Doing a damn fine job Simon>Thank you.

[@Zeldarw104]

This video makes me appreciate living in modern times, with science at the forefront of humanity.😷 The audio is a little low on this particular video, I keep grabbing for my remote to turn up the volume, when, I realize it's already at the max.🙂 Good job anyhow.👍

[@iamgroot6965]

I'm proud of my ancestors, we actually have a plague pit in my hometown i didn't even know we had one at all up until i visited our towns heritage center (before covid)

[@miguelmackay4851]

Interesting how "church music" can be related to dark moments in history and even be super scary!

[@ThaBlackGothJawn]

I could watch your videos all day long💜

[@aurorathekitty7854]

I lived in Gila Bend Arizona back in 2016-2018 and I remember part of the reservation getting quarantine off due to someone having the bubonic plague. I couldn't believe that's still around today.

[@Sk8ngInDuval]

I’m OBSESSED with these videos.

[@saltntemper2244]

he really nails his outfit on every videos!

[@A_Salted_Fishe]

I've seen this blue shirt many times. I want one!

[@Blake_.Dryden]

It's always awesome when Simon speaks poetically.... That sounds like a mnemonic device

[@Svartalf14]

oh, and the little image from the Seventh seal was a nice touch, made me want to watch it again.

[@matthewmedlang3799]

Covid 19 got the world like " this isn't fair i dont want to wear a mask!!!!" -- Black Death: Hold my beer.

[@ken_kaneki9830]

Did you not know how serious Black Death is? Making jokes about it is really stupid.

[@ken_kaneki9830]

@Tyler Simmons isn't if offensive for the entire europe that died in 1348-1665

[@griff5713]

@@ken_kaneki9830 gallows humour is a coping mechanism and helps people get through tough times.

[@nosuchthing8]

@@ken_kaneki9830 hes making people that refuse to wear a mask look ridiculous

[@InnannasRainbow]

@@nosuchthing8 I have survived pandemics before without going full idiot over it and I refuse to go full idiot over this paltry virus.

[@AvioftheSand]

Love the scenes from "The Seventh Seal." Great movie!

[@microchiroptera4520]

Excellent work

[@TA_Plus_Hemi]

I'm in you and Danny were right when Business Blaze today September 1, 2020. I never once doubted you or Danny but I did not expect it to happen so quick. After watching that video I was trying to remember what the name of the major river in France was. I know this is not quite what you guys meant in the Blaze video but close enough for a fan. You are a legend and I do not mean allegedly.

[@DarqueQueen7]

Fantastic episode, Simon & Co.! I seriously enjoy your content more than the History Channel.

[@zeusathena26]

Because these days the history channel is more concerned about bigfoot, & pawn stars etc to care about actual history.

[@DarqueQueen7]

@@zeusathena26 Amen!!!

[@zeusathena26]

@@DarqueQueen7 what blows my mind, most people I talk to don't like the current format. They started history 2 to show original shows, & they turned into clones. I can find way better shows, & documentaries on youtube!

[@DarqueQueen7]

@@zeusathena26 I though that was a bit a stupid idea.

[@KittyWhisperASMR]

13:51 my favorite part of all Biographics videos ever

[@Jessidafennecfox]

Yes Kitteh

[@PaleZeus]

Great video Fam

[@bman54950]

Just what I needed to start my day.