black plague

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“The Black Plague in Europe was a 20% lethal event and it set society back 250 years,” he said, adding that a Nipah pandemic would “set us back over a millennium in my estimate.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022

And in some ways, some of our worst thinking now — especially with it comes to the coronavirus and anti-science ideas — is far worse than anything folks did during the Black Plague.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

As briefly mentioned earlier, the Black Plague drew attention to how medieval practitioners of medicine usually had no idea what they were doing.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

Cordons were widely used to control the Black Plague during the Middle Ages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Declaration eyeballed me, and in the same tone of voice she would have used to say, The Black Plague?, she said, “Marbles?”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles