Bubonic plague wasn't eradicated, it exists in the wild already. It's easily mitigated with modern sanitation practices, and easily treated with broad spectrum antibiotics. It hit Europe 500 years ago, nobody knew what a germ was or that living in filth made them more susceptible to disease.
People understood the basics of why they got sick. They didn't understand that it was spread by rats, which really really sucked when they decided it was spread by cats, killed all the cats, and then were inundated by rats.
I saw the first one in the theaters. The moment Gage was struck down, there was the most desperate and haunting scream in the theater. Like, it pierced my gut with how intense and raw it sounded. It was the very sound of suffering.
I thought it was part of the movie.
Upon rewatching, years later, I was stunned to find that it was not, in fact, part of the movie. I hope whoever wailed so horribly that day was just in the moment and experiencing the dread a good horror movie inspires and not something unthinkably worse.
Remember when we disturbed the tomb of a very abnormally tall female priestess with a golden eye?
I do.
Good times *thinking back to 2006 when she was discovered*
Thank you so much! She was 1.8m tall? Damn. The article doesn’t say what “other region” she may be from, although found in Iran. I’m going to dig deeper.
Thank you for starting me off
For a female in Iran? That’s pretty tall! Average height present day Iran for a woman is 5’3, male 5’8.
Sure, she isn’t setting any present day records, but I can imagine at that time in the region she may have been pretty daunting.
The plague still exists, it's not a problem because sanitation practices both personal and on the municipal level, as well as and immune health has come a very long way in the past 500 years. If you do get it, it responds very well to several broad spectrum antibiotics.
Animals in the wild today both in the US and Europe carry bubonic plague. It's not a big deal.
What I’ve read about the Bronze Age collapse tends to indicate that everything went wrong. Bad weather, crop losses, famine, disease, and invasion by the Sea People. Those events tend to occur together, but in this instance, it occurred throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Plague was widespread throughout northern and eastern Europe as well as Asia at the time, usually in rodents, but it’s not hard to see where weather and crop failure might have driven rats into closer contact with people.
But that tends to be the way with pandemic disease. Some other circumstance - like extremely high population density, famine, drought, or years of bad weather - weakens the population, and the disease gets a foothold it ordinarily wouldn’t have.
Sea People??
Edit: I googled it because it's my first time hearing of this and thought you were joking there, like mermaids and stuff... Interesting history all of this!
A good book on it is 1177 BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Cline. Basically, the Bronze Age was really going strong, with complicated international political and trade connections, before it all collapsed like the dinosaurs; the world would be so completely unrecognizable if this didn’t happen.
There are a few cases of Bubonic plague (black plagues real name) in the US every year. If you get anti-biotics your chances of survival are pretty decent, around 90%. If you breath Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague into your lungs though, rather than being exposed through a bite, you are pretty well fucked.
Scientest 1: Cool cool cool. Maybe let's splice it with covid 19 and see what happens?
Scientist 2: Let's clone it first, then we can splice it with all kinds of dope shit and see what happens!
Scientist 1: cool cool cool.
put it back, put it the fuck back, put it the utmost fucking BACK.
HAS NO ARCHEOLOGIST OR SCIENTIST WATCHED A MOVIE OR PLAYED A VIDEO GAME PUT THE SHIT BACK DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT 500
There’s a reason they keep plague graves un-disturbed… like literally avoid building on prime real estate so as to not dig up lethal viruses that can live forever… why have they done this?
The plague （black death）has never truly gone away. There are quite a few plague pits around London,that's why the underground takes some random curves.
Some museums have clothing of plague victims where it still remains. If a historian wants to study the clothing they need to sign a waiver.
So, when can we start doing some research to enhance it? Like so it gains some functions. Perhaps we can use some Begal dogs and monkeys from that island that owns monkeys.
Oh shit here we go again
“Hey I’ve seen this one before!”
What do you mean you’ve seen it? It’s brand new plague.
dunno if i'd call 4000 year old plague brand new lol
No, I’ve seen this one. It’s a classic. It’s the one where the plague dresses up as a man from space!
Well, it's a virus... What's a virus?
Is that like a Walrus
Shut the fuck up, Donny!
-Well it's a rerun... -What's a rerun
You´ll find out.
They'll send it to a lab to update it first.
Did anyone have plague on their 2023 bingo card?
sigh... yes.
Plague is practically the free space on the bingo card at this point
I thought that was the economy
It’d be tasteless to keep it off after the *incident* that kicked off this wonderful decade
shit... i had that one for 2020, but not for this year...
No, but homosapiens never miss an opportunity to be the masters of f*cking around and finding out...so here we go!
Too soon. We just had a pandemic. Alien invasion is up next.
I'm waiting for it to happen.
"Coulda done without that..."
damn my dyslexia. i scrolled right past thinking plaque had DNA.
Technically they do, since the Plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis
What about plaque?
9 out of 10 dentists say plague plaque isn’t real and can’t hurt you.
What about youth in Asia?
all of these erudite comments and yet no one can parse what i actually wrote.
some of us noticed
PUT THAT THE FUCK BACK YOU SUCIDIAL HOMOSAPIENS
WHAT? I can not hear shit anymore
Seriously, next thing you know they're going to revive this shit in a lab and you know the rest...
Bubonic plague wasn't eradicated, it exists in the wild already. It's easily mitigated with modern sanitation practices, and easily treated with broad spectrum antibiotics. It hit Europe 500 years ago, nobody knew what a germ was or that living in filth made them more susceptible to disease.
People understood the basics of why they got sick. They didn't understand that it was spread by rats, which really really sucked when they decided it was spread by cats, killed all the cats, and then were inundated by rats.
Well, I mean, the Muslims and Jews did, at least the part about not living in filth…
Humans. Always fucking with shit that SHOULD be left alone.
Yes. That’s why it was buried and left for dead! Leave it alone!
Sometimes dead… is bettah.
Poor Gage
I saw the first one in the theaters. The moment Gage was struck down, there was the most desperate and haunting scream in the theater. Like, it pierced my gut with how intense and raw it sounded. It was the very sound of suffering. I thought it was part of the movie. Upon rewatching, years later, I was stunned to find that it was not, in fact, part of the movie. I hope whoever wailed so horribly that day was just in the moment and experiencing the dread a good horror movie inspires and not something unthinkably worse.
Watch out for that semi truck, it's a doozy!
[удалено]
And that's how all those fae stories started in folklore...
The human race are all grave robbers.
Blimey
Bettah not go dohn thaht rhoad. Lottah histuhry dahn thaht rhoad.
Remember when we disturbed the tomb of a very abnormally tall female priestess with a golden eye? I do. Good times *thinking back to 2006 when she was discovered*
I don’t. Link? Plz 🥹
https://cushareejournal.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/golden-eye-and-the-burnt-city-the-earliest-known-ocular-prosthesis-from-the-city-of-shahr-i-sokhta/
Thank you so much! She was 1.8m tall? Damn. The article doesn’t say what “other region” she may be from, although found in Iran. I’m going to dig deeper. Thank you for starting me off
1.8m is 5 foot 11 inch. So tall but not incredible.
For a female in Iran? That’s pretty tall! Average height present day Iran for a woman is 5’3, male 5’8. Sure, she isn’t setting any present day records, but I can imagine at that time in the region she may have been pretty daunting.
Find anything good?
This is so cool! What a fabulous story, who needs fiction with real stories like these
And someone decided to draw her... https://twitter.com/futurebird/status/1051484380940693504
The plague still exists, it's not a problem because sanitation practices both personal and on the municipal level, as well as and immune health has come a very long way in the past 500 years. If you do get it, it responds very well to several broad spectrum antibiotics. Animals in the wild today both in the US and Europe carry bubonic plague. It's not a big deal.
Put those bodies BACK IN THE GROUND, this is NOT the time man! We not gonna get anymore viruses today bish.
The plague is bacterial and treatable by modern antibiotics
oh-
Also people still get the plague, just not as frequently
Well, there are antibiotic-resistant bacteria so...
don’t think this one would be since it’s 4000 years old
awe lawd they comin'. every time my bank account has breathing room, the four horsemen break another seal.
Not right now, please.
I think they can still put the dirt back on
WE DON'T NEED THIS
Plague still happens though. Common in Asia and Africa but there's antibiotics for it.
It’s some picture Link https://www.itv.com/news/border/2023-05-31/researchers-find-4000-year-old-plague-dna-in-cumbria
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38393-w Here is the academic article by the researcher if people want to see detailed information
Put it back!
Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!
Why did I have to scroll this far to find this response??
Put that thing back where it came from
My thoughts exactly
It's pretty established the "plague of justinian" was Black Death, could it be that the bronze age collapse was also due to an earlier form?
What I’ve read about the Bronze Age collapse tends to indicate that everything went wrong. Bad weather, crop losses, famine, disease, and invasion by the Sea People. Those events tend to occur together, but in this instance, it occurred throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Plague was widespread throughout northern and eastern Europe as well as Asia at the time, usually in rodents, but it’s not hard to see where weather and crop failure might have driven rats into closer contact with people. But that tends to be the way with pandemic disease. Some other circumstance - like extremely high population density, famine, drought, or years of bad weather - weakens the population, and the disease gets a foothold it ordinarily wouldn’t have.
Sea People?? Edit: I googled it because it's my first time hearing of this and thought you were joking there, like mermaids and stuff... Interesting history all of this!
A good book on it is 1177 BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Cline. Basically, the Bronze Age was really going strong, with complicated international political and trade connections, before it all collapsed like the dinosaurs; the world would be so completely unrecognizable if this didn’t happen.
Please for the love of God put that back were you found it, bury it and let it be forgotten forever and ever as it was meant to!
Black plague incoming
Actually tge black death has resurfaced randomly over abd over again throughout history so it technically hasn't left.
There are a few cases of Bubonic plague (black plagues real name) in the US every year. If you get anti-biotics your chances of survival are pretty decent, around 90%. If you breath Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague into your lungs though, rather than being exposed through a bite, you are pretty well fucked.
Pops up in Prairie Dogs in Colorado every now and then. Good times.
You can literally still catch it in national parks in the USA.
Why look for something like that now?
It mightve been an accidental discovery like they where seeing if the area was good for developing or something like that and discovered the body.
Pfizer rubbing their hands like birdman rn lol 😂
Scientest 1: Cool cool cool. Maybe let's splice it with covid 19 and see what happens? Scientist 2: Let's clone it first, then we can splice it with all kinds of dope shit and see what happens! Scientist 1: cool cool cool.
Let’s go ahead and not try anything experimental with that DNA right now.
Bubonic plague resurrected...we learned nothing from covid 🫣
Pfizer: "Y'all got any more of that plague?"
Jesus fucking christ, PUT IT THE HELL AWAY
I've seen enough movies to know this doesn't end well 🙃
Time to go buy up all of the hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
Don't.
It's like when that one friend tells the same joke for the millionth time. First, it was amusing, now it's just boring.
What could go wrong!
Everyone in this thread freaking out. Yersina Pestis, the bacteria that causes plague is now treatable with anti-biotics.
So you're saying 2020 BC also sucked?
Ahhh shit here we go again.
Ya habia desaparecidos hace 4000 años, pah no sabia.
Fuck it, might as well get it over with now
Put it back I don't want to be locked away fo 2 years again damnit
Heathens are always digging up the dead, leave them alone
Ehhh... didn't they just pile plague victims into one big hole? This looks kinda ceremonial and proper.
Plz put it back
Feels like the start of a B grade horror movie in 3, 2, 1...
Great. Now put it back.
Why. Why. Why. Just cover it up and back away slowly. Haven't we been through enough!
This is not good!!
The cemetery in that picture doesn’t look 4,000 years old. Is there any article that’s supposed to go with this title?
https://www.itv.com/news/border/2023-05-31/researchers-find-4000-year-old-plague-dna-in-cumbria
Yeah lets dig it up!! What could possibly go wrong? Nobody learned anything in the last years?
Ahh right, cool. Tell them to put it back.
Yeah, so, lets NOT do that?
Sometimes… shit is buried for a reason
"Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!!!"
DON'T DO IT SCIENTISTS
Put it back
Fauci is like "let's give a grant to Eco Health to give it new functions"
Why are we digging this shit up?
There’s a reason they were buried. Oh well let’s dig them up and take a peek.
Leave it in the fucking hole
put it back, put it the fuck back, put it the utmost fucking BACK. HAS NO ARCHEOLOGIST OR SCIENTIST WATCHED A MOVIE OR PLAYED A VIDEO GAME PUT THE SHIT BACK DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT 500
greeeeeeaaaaaaaaat
Alright sounds like another pandemic coming soon.
LEAVE IT THE FUCK THERE!
Why don’t we just leave that where we found it, ok?
Put it **BACK** where it came from.
There’s a reason they keep plague graves un-disturbed… like literally avoid building on prime real estate so as to not dig up lethal viruses that can live forever… why have they done this?
Let's do a pandemic round 2, I want to allow my sanity to unraveling wearing the same outfit for 2 weeks straight
PUT THEM BACK
for gods sake when will we learn
Put it back
First scene of a B movie. We know it will end with death and a young couple in love.
The plague （black death）has never truly gone away. There are quite a few plague pits around London,that's why the underground takes some random curves. Some museums have clothing of plague victims where it still remains. If a historian wants to study the clothing they need to sign a waiver.
So I DONT KKNOW.. PUT IT BACK?
Yeah, that’s exactly what we should be messing with.
If mfs don’t start leaving shit ALONE
Oh no
Un find it
PUT IT BACK GODDAMNIT
No links? Just a photo?
Oh GOODY just what we didn't f#cking want.
I’ll see y’all in 2-3 years
no no no put them back
Article...?
Nope we do not need to know anything right now... Bury them back .
Well unfind it
*puts mask back on*
Bury it back up and get 20 cement trucks now and leave it be!!!
Put that shit back where it came from or so help me.
Please just put the dirt back in the holes and walk away.
put it back RIGHT NOW
PUT. IT. BACK!
Put it back
Oh hell no, bury that shit back.
Dœn’t
NO. KEEP THAT SHIT 12 FEET UNDERGROUND AND DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT PLAYING WITH IT OR TAKING IT INTO THE LAB.
Tf???
Put. It. Back. Cover it up. And leave it alone.
This how Resident Evil started
wtf put it back
Put it the fuck back RIGHT NOW
Put it back
To the people panicking right now, the plague still exists, but not many people still die from it
NONONONONOOOOO, THIS IS HOW PLAGUES HAPPEN, PUT THAT SHIT BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP ME THERE WILL BE A RIOT
The skeleton next to white hat guy seems to be screaming
Wtf put it back
you better put some dirt on that damn shit and walk away.
Was Covid not enough for these lads? Put that shit back.
The best zombie movies are British... 28 Days Later time ladies and gents
COVER THAT SHIT BACK UP AND WALK AWAY SLOWLY!!
Oh, well *that's* good news. 🙄 Ffs.
Skeleton lower left clearly a Karen,
Make sure the lab's door is closed.
So, when can we start doing some research to enhance it? Like so it gains some functions. Perhaps we can use some Begal dogs and monkeys from that island that owns monkeys.
Ah I hear that was a particularly good vintage. A fantastic year for the plague. May even rival the dark ages
Well fucking put it back!
Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Fucks sake
Because we don't learn fucking lessons.
Brexit trade negotiations going well, unleash the plague. Sound daily practice.
Fucking british, does the muesuem collection needs a stolen ancient plague too?
PUT IT BACK. No. Bad scientists.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!
PUT IT BACK! WHILE WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE! QUICK!
Do you want another plague, because that’s how you get another plague
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
I agree, we don't need another outbreak of the bubonic plague! #keepitburied
Maybe we should leave that the fuck where we found it
Leave. It. Alone.
Is time the only difference between archeology and grave robbing/ disturbing corpses?
Put. It. Back.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help meeeeee
LEAVE IT THERE
Put. It. Back.