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Post by TKennedy on May 2, 2023 23:17:50 GMT -5
Just watched a fascinating two hour documentary on the Bubonic Plague epidemic that hit San Francisco in 1900. Something I never knew even happened. At a time when knowledge of infectious disease and transmission patterns was in its infancy it’s quite a saga. Lots of similarities to what we just went thorough on a regional level. If you have the time it’s quite a saga surrounding a problem that spanned a number of years and an earthquake before being fully understood and controlled. The almost instant politicization reveals there is nothing new under the sun. Recommended! www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/plague-golden-gate/ |
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Post by jdd2 on May 3, 2023 1:20:51 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on May 3, 2023 3:49:19 GMT -5
Didn't know that!
Imperial Japan experimented with it as weapon. Dropped on a northern province of China with mixed results. I understand there are still outbreaks there to this day.
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Post by jdd2 on May 3, 2023 4:59:22 GMT -5
Edited that link so it links properly the the wikipedia article on the book.
Biological warfare is pretty old, launching rats into cities under siege, and so on, or just waiting the other side out, before disease/plague made an actual assault unnecessary.
Plague moves--or moved--slowly, sometimes decades or longer to move across continents, or from one continent to another. Imagine if a third of the world's poplulation were to disappear today.
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Post by jdd2 on May 3, 2023 5:05:32 GMT -5
Didn't know that! Imperial Japan experimented with it as weapon. Dropped on a northern province of China with mixed results. I understand there are still outbreaks there to this day. Unit 731 did do horrible experiments on people, but what are your sources for "dropped on a northern province of China with mixed results."? And, you do know what goes on today, in the US and elsewhere, experimenting with plague and other things in biolabs? |
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Post by howard lee on May 3, 2023 6:29:15 GMT -5
Just watched a fascinating two hour documentary on the Bubonic Plague epidemic that hit San Francisco in 1900. Something I never knew even happened. At a time when knowledge of infectious disease and transmission patterns was in its infancy it’s quite a saga. Lots of similarities to what we just went thorough on a regional level. If you have the time it’s quite a saga surrounding a problem that spanned a number of years and an earthquake before being fully understood and controlled. The almost instant politicization reveals there is nothing new under the sun. Recommended! www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/plague-golden-gate/
Terry, please see my post on page 1 of today's daily thread.
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Post by theevan on May 3, 2023 8:14:26 GMT -5
Didn't know that! Imperial Japan experimented with it as weapon. Dropped on a northern province of China with mixed results. I understand there are still outbreaks there to this day. Unit 731 did do horrible experiments on people, but what are your sources for "dropped on a northern province of China with mixed results."? And, you do know what goes on today, in the US and elsewhere, experimenting with plague and other things in biolabs? Of course. And Wuhan. But the Japanese never did. Like they never did lots of other stuff back then. |
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Post by Marshall on May 3, 2023 8:39:48 GMT -5
Imagine if a third of the world's population were to disappear today. It ushered in the Renaissance back then. Agriculture and Commerce of the day was more abundantly able to support the reduced population. |
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Post by majorminor on May 3, 2023 8:47:39 GMT -5
Fitting title for what's happening there right now too.
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Post by Marshall on May 3, 2023 8:52:31 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on May 3, 2023 9:00:18 GMT -5
That plaque has been stuck on Golden Gate Bridge since the day it was opened, May 27, 1937. (I think they used rivets)  |
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Post by jdd2 on May 3, 2023 15:26:33 GMT -5
Is that shadow a guitar headstock?
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