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@snappy_one9120
4 жыл бұрын
Biographics nice beard
@zaqswedcrf8741
4 жыл бұрын
Hi
@Erin-Thor
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
Biographics Wait... how is this commented 1 month ago?
@Erin-Thor
4 жыл бұрын
Geest en Co - There’s a fault in the time-space continuum.
@XShadowAngel
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
As a non-parent, I feel you though.
@melissaharris3890
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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
9 ай бұрын
not only that but imagine living through a pandemic that carried off your parents only to lose your children to it
@jakegreenwood4805
3 жыл бұрын
“The Plague of Children” sounds like a name of a British parenting book.
@pup1008
3 жыл бұрын
Upper class. It would be "The Blessing of Children" for those having Benefits increased by them!
@Emily-ye1rj
2 жыл бұрын
Or Nazi Germany
@danielcurtis1434
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe an alternative title for “Lord of the Flies???
@jeffersonott4357
2 жыл бұрын
Solid burn👍
@charmaintrout174
2 жыл бұрын
😂🤣🤣😂🤌
@QuickLern818
4 жыл бұрын
"...and thousands of children died. You know what can't catch the plague? Squarespace!" ---Simon
@IAmAnEvilTaco
3 жыл бұрын
It’s got an antivirus, duh.
@RankinMsP
3 жыл бұрын
😆😆
@ericjianuzzi3448
3 жыл бұрын
"And if you need to back up your plague victim photos Backblaze is currently 80% off! That's only 20% on when you use the code blaze!" - Factboi
@fukkitful
2 жыл бұрын
@@ericjianuzzi3448 And if want to make sure your on point while at all your friend's and family's funeral. Then Beardblaze will help you look good for all those new lonely widows out there.
@magnusgreel275
3 жыл бұрын
The poet's description of his children's deaths is chilling :(
@sloshed-rat
Жыл бұрын
A creative mind who knows much hardship is a macabre and desolate place.
@Tracy-xe9zu
Жыл бұрын
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.
@DoReMi123acb
4 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! It weren’t that they were dumb, they were learning, and at a different stage of knowing about the world, relatively.
@dr.altoclef9255
2 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
@@debbylou5729 Newton was referring to himself, but it still fits.
@Kerriangel
4 жыл бұрын
“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
4 жыл бұрын
Ooh: 'tis catchy, that ({ ; D ...!
@gdaymate7316
4 жыл бұрын
H,H great & funny show, read all books to and im a old bloke. Cheers from OZ
@obamaprism9702
4 жыл бұрын
I see you are a man of culture as well
@wrongsalvation8904
4 жыл бұрын
The fact that you quoted the song from Horrible Histories has endeared you to my heart. Bravo good person Bravo
@dervy5935
4 жыл бұрын
HH was my childhood I see you are a person of taste
@jaggerwatkins9216
4 жыл бұрын
"Senseless death breeds panic. In turn panic breeds violence. Violent crowds need scapegoats"
@maggiee639
4 жыл бұрын
*Scapegoats (not trying to be an asshole, just letting you know so you don’t” bone apple tea” yourself by accident)
@jaggerwatkins9216
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
4 жыл бұрын
Jagger Watkins I don’t think it’s just you. It makes me crazy too, I’m not an idiot I swear! 😂
@jaggerwatkins9216
4 жыл бұрын
@LeeAnne S If there was anything to make up 🤔 Are you okay ma'am? I feel there might be some delirium involved.
@jaggerwatkins9216
4 жыл бұрын
@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".
@carschmn
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@ignitionfrn2223
3 жыл бұрын
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
@parkerdixon-word6295
3 жыл бұрын
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
6 ай бұрын
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.
@IntrepidFraidyCat
4 жыл бұрын
"The plague of children"...means something COMPLETELY different to a parent.
@henrysmommy7
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@seanspindleshanks2529
4 жыл бұрын
Dammit, you got to that joke first.
@lovelessissimo
4 жыл бұрын
My first thought.
@spawn-pt8yp
4 жыл бұрын
What does it mean
@lovelessissimo
4 жыл бұрын
@@spawn-pt8yp You'll know when you're a parent.
@trivialtrav
3 жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Idk. They did have advanced medical knowledge, although before the Dark Ages. Human civilization has faced a couple resets.
@AutisticAthena
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
"Just rub some dirt on it" was a way to stop bleeding until surprisingly recent (compared to the 1300s)
@sammehlberg6664
Жыл бұрын
@@neonfroot dark ages were a misnomer. Define advanced medicine, I don't think I'd call it that.
@JDEhlert
2 жыл бұрын
The slower spread could also have come from the fact that the previous plague killed so many people that travel itself was slowed down.
@doggedout
4 жыл бұрын
"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
4 жыл бұрын
Or we can just not kill the ones we have😉
@mercenery1232
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't he the Pope -san. Mannn he really misinterpreted the voice of god .
@marymeisiek7706
4 жыл бұрын
Lol! Epic fail!
@mangot589
4 жыл бұрын
Maria Kelly Plus, it’d be pretty nice😉. Poor kitties.
@arnowisp6244
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@manicmechanic448
4 жыл бұрын
Ring around the rosey. Pocket full of Posey. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
@krispalermo8133
4 жыл бұрын
C-19 .. ?
@ericworley4361
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@danshiba1498
4 жыл бұрын
reads title: my brain: "*softly* dont.."
@erikburzinski8248
4 жыл бұрын
2020: I will wait for 5 minutes
@stargatis
4 жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂 the horrors we want to see
@yes0r787
4 жыл бұрын
ikr
@Aconitum_napellus
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
@@Aconitum_napellus l've heard that there are are regular cases in Mexico and in the LA area.
@elhombredeoro955
4 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early the Black Death had still not reached Venice.
@DIY_Miracle
4 жыл бұрын
I know it! It was those dirty rotten Genoan's again trying to steal our trade!
@christopherseton-smith7404
4 жыл бұрын
@@DIY_Miracle And all our plunder and loot from Constantinople.
@valsptsd814
4 жыл бұрын
I’m even 6 minutes post release. You’ve become quite the Cult Leader, Simon. 😁
@pleasureincontempt3645
4 жыл бұрын
@Val’s PTSD The plague again. brought to you by Squarespace.
@chiyohanson4332
4 жыл бұрын
It's due the shirt he's wearing. It's my favorite.😁
@treydodson4726
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
He should do a video on the cult of we’ll.. himself 😂
@treydodson4726
4 жыл бұрын
@@ComradeCommissarYuri Cult of Personality is the perfect theme song for Mr. Whistler.
@MuhammadAli-uv9lf
4 жыл бұрын
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
@RaedanWulfe
2 жыл бұрын
Oof, that sounds like absolute torture.
@Emily-ye1rj
2 жыл бұрын
Or learning about how bigfoot was totally an alien. Ancient alien theorists don't know the word "No"
@___LC___
2 жыл бұрын
Are you all healed and have you had your hardware replaced, yet?
@rominazarei744
3 жыл бұрын
'It is not wholesome to go into the city or town.' 'Wholesome'
@WillyKling
6 ай бұрын
It is still not.
@insulaarachnid
4 жыл бұрын
This was so thorough and so interesting! Particularly appreciated hearing about the socio/political impacts & changes from the disease.
@michaelhowell2326
4 жыл бұрын
Without even trying this is the 6th video in a row that Simon hosts. He is the British Empire of KZitem.
@BeastnHarlotDFO
4 жыл бұрын
Simon dearest, how I have missed you so...
@walkingonsunshine1568
4 жыл бұрын
lol marry him why don’t you
@BeastnHarlotDFO
4 жыл бұрын
@@walkingonsunshine1568 I'm only looking to live inside his beard; property values are rising quickly
@walkingonsunshine1568
4 жыл бұрын
Cole Buzzell good point, I can’t argue with that
@antonkovalenko364
4 жыл бұрын
One of the busiest men on KZitem.
@fullyrekt1538
4 жыл бұрын
Miss him...he has over 9000 different channels
@romz1
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone alive now, your ancesteors survived through all these plagues and pandemics. 💪
@YokoshimaOfficial
3 жыл бұрын
Or croaked
@GrandTemplarVigilant
3 жыл бұрын
What about those whose ancestors Lived in the Americas They only had 1 to really worry about
@bradleymoore2797
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
3 жыл бұрын
Romz and we aren't 💪😤
@GrandTemplarVigilant
3 жыл бұрын
@@bradleymoore2797 I was talking about the fact that they only had to deal with syphilis until the Europeans showed up
@DavidMorris1984
4 жыл бұрын
Loved the line about 'an outbreak of marriages'. Another great video. I always look forward to them. :)
@sydneyfairbairn3773
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@nickim6571
3 жыл бұрын
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
6 ай бұрын
I bet you wore a mask 4 years ago.
@nickim6571
6 ай бұрын
@@WillyKling ABSOLUTELY, and I didn't get COVID until this past December when everyone let down their guard.
@WillyKling
6 ай бұрын
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
6 ай бұрын
Lost my job because I did not have one but hey, that's hysteria.
@WillyKling
6 ай бұрын
AI can figure out what we are talking about, so can't really have a discussion anymore.@@nickim6571
@ZeoViolet
4 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
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
2 жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@@kazumablackwing4270 Elders are literally germy folks. As are dogs.
@ZeoViolet
9 ай бұрын
@@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. :/
@jackfergus7437
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@kiratheusagiisworkshop5266
3 жыл бұрын
Learning history has never been more interesting. I keep getting recommended your videos and I keep watching them one after the other.
@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@MM-kx2vp
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@eliasskellas3579
4 жыл бұрын
Great video and the scenes from "the seventh seal" most appropriate, especially the "danse macabre".
@g_majano5681
4 жыл бұрын
A long sleeve shirt company should sponsor Simon. The shirts are always on point 👌🏼
@joanbaczek2575
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the woman survived the second wave better cuz they did all the cleaning chores in essence washing their hands
@user-fq4hj8yv2z
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe
@lalehiandeity1649
3 жыл бұрын
How does that protect from fleas?
@emilybarclay8831
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
3 жыл бұрын
@@emilybarclay8831 Washing one’s hands doesn’t protect them from fleas, but staying inside does, is what you’re saying.
@emilybarclay8831
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@AnimeShinigami13
3 жыл бұрын
"All we can say for sure, is it wasn't caused by the G5." *laughs maniacally*
@QuackingKing
4 жыл бұрын
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
3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@denebkaitos7511
Жыл бұрын
"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...
@BitterComments
4 жыл бұрын
I was so happy when I saw that you finally made this video. Then I was horrified by my happiness regarding dying children 😂
@neighborhoodcaptain790
4 жыл бұрын
Well, it’s 2020 afterall💀
@ruairiodonohoe2533
4 жыл бұрын
Ohhhhh, thats bad
@PawelSorinsky
4 жыл бұрын
Corona is an information pandemic. It killed about 3 sets of daily births in 10 months.
@thepowerpoutageguy
4 жыл бұрын
It's nowhere near as bad as the Blackdeath.
@njd4291
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah 2020 is heaven compared to the black death.
@Cj-xt6tv
4 жыл бұрын
It’s not even comparable stop fear mongering
@ARIXANDRE
4 жыл бұрын
Putting this one in the playlist "Don't Watch While Eating".
@Maceman486
4 жыл бұрын
Simon Whistler: "The Pestilence" SCP-049: (Heavy Breathing)
@donaldnaber7546
4 жыл бұрын
8:18 you say 1630 and on screen 1360.... happens to me all the time. :-)
@jamesdowner
4 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it!
@skidmark2704
4 жыл бұрын
Lol that was the one time I actually looked at my screen
@NikhilChaudhariimbevda
4 жыл бұрын
Haha even I thought I Heard it..Simon misses his Lager..
@danielhaigler556
4 жыл бұрын
The power of dyslexia... It has done me no favors in life either
@SharpWits2013
4 жыл бұрын
Another video about the Medieval Thanos snap? Love it!
@GlorifiedGremlin
2 жыл бұрын
Man, sitting here watching this while sick with covid really makes me realize how trivial this current pandemic is lol
@ayakotami3318
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@julesfoster3289
2 жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
We boomers, but does YOUNGER kids know this? (too many on smartphones) Like London Bridge is falling down?
@sys-foster
Жыл бұрын
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@sys-fosterCalm down Zoomer
@Master_Yoda1990
4 жыл бұрын
Ah, wasn’t the age of miasma theory a great era.
@--enyo--
4 жыл бұрын
Yoda Don’t forget the four humors.
@alexcarter8807
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@TechSupport900
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, just cleaning your trash and not defecating in the streets pretty much does the trick.
@TechSupport900
4 жыл бұрын
Also that
@purpledefault4423
4 жыл бұрын
@@MisterMonsterMan but mostly Simon Whistler
@normalguyhere9158
4 жыл бұрын
@@TechSupport900 Also, HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR CHIN 🤣
@TechSupport900
4 жыл бұрын
Mommy says it’s a strong chin for a strong boy
@yungtoolshed251
4 жыл бұрын
Ryan Reeves, a history KZitemr 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.
@iamgroot6965
3 жыл бұрын
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)
@charleslarrivee2908
4 жыл бұрын
Haven’t you already covered the Black...ooooh right this is Round 2: Electric Boogaloo
@Demonetization_Symbol
4 жыл бұрын
26:19 bad time to dig up plague remains
@tpeterson9140
Жыл бұрын
whenever I wanna learn about something I know Simon got me covered. Excellent work as always!
@DarqueQueen7
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic episode, Simon & Co.! I seriously enjoy your content more than the History Channel.
@zeusathena26
3 жыл бұрын
Because these days the history channel is more concerned about bigfoot, & pawn stars etc to care about actual history.
@DarqueQueen7
3 жыл бұрын
@@zeusathena26 Amen!!!
@zeusathena26
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
3 жыл бұрын
@@zeusathena26 I though that was a bit a stupid idea.
@saltntemper2244
4 жыл бұрын
he really nails his outfit on every videos!
@A_Salted_Fishe
4 жыл бұрын
I've seen this blue shirt many times. I want one!
@lotrdude13
4 жыл бұрын
"...it wasn't caused by the G5" It's actually 5G, but that's funny lol
@888johnmac
4 жыл бұрын
i guess if Simon said plague & 5G in the same sentence you-tube bots would instantly de-monetise & not recommend the video
@williamjeffersonclinton69
4 жыл бұрын
Alex Jones *Heavy Breathing Intensifies*
@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
Allegedly !!!
@tecni-cal
4 жыл бұрын
@@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness he actually mentioned this on business blaze. He said it's always numbers
@vanessathomas7437
4 жыл бұрын
Even centuries ago, people realized the importance of quarantine.
@allangibson8494
3 жыл бұрын
The Black Death was why it was invented in Dubrovnik. It was 40 days of isolation in special quarters.
@nosuchthing8
3 жыл бұрын
Everyone but trump
@flowerpower8722
3 жыл бұрын
Not really.
@danshiba1498
3 жыл бұрын
you look at today and everyone bitches and moans when theyre told to stay i doors for 4 weeks
@trollsports7829
3 жыл бұрын
@@danshiba1498 hey bring me food&supplies and i will gladly stay in quarantine for 4weeks
@wawerukamau6242
4 жыл бұрын
I yelled out loud "Goddamnit!!" when i heard that familiar phrase... "it started in China.."
@jandrews6254
3 жыл бұрын
And was brought by ship.......either cruise liners or aircraft
@AfricanBiographics
4 жыл бұрын
2020 , a year like no other 😥
@njd4291
4 жыл бұрын
No, the black death was the time like no other.
@bloodredrubyrose8740
4 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the black death. As a reminder that what is happening right now. This isn't the end of the world, we will get through this. Stay strong, stay safe and I hope you all have good health!
@carllarsen
4 жыл бұрын
i wonder if there were people in denial of the plague like there are people in denial of covid now.
@ruth80809
4 жыл бұрын
@@carllarsen wouldn't be surprised if there were deniers back then.
@carllarsen
4 жыл бұрын
@D. so if i shoot someone who has cancer, i didn't murder them? that argument is stupid
@pucca5233
4 жыл бұрын
D. Your argument is so dumb, it’s like saying you are driving and hit and killed the man but complains that he died because he was driving a car
@jandrews6254
3 жыл бұрын
@D. “just” from covid? Meaning they had some pre existing or debilitating condition that was exacerbated by covid, but the pre existing condition was ignored? So the half million deaths in USA were actually negligible, compared with the flu?
@dw22509
Жыл бұрын
Finally, someone brave enough to call children a plague.
@BrandyHoelscher
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the well-timed ad placement. Things got heavy.
@cor289
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry Black Death 2020 is full please come again back later
@Hromovlad1
4 жыл бұрын
they did recently record new cases of the Plague in China, so...
@njd4291
4 жыл бұрын
Black death is an AC130. Covid is like a rock thrown by a malnutritioned Neanderthal.
@Zenhumanist
4 жыл бұрын
For the 2nd wave.
@barbaramcgee8933
4 жыл бұрын
@@Hromovlad1 also California
@jeromewesselman4653
4 жыл бұрын
@@Hromovlad1 Fortunately Dr. Lister discovered hand washing a hundred-odd years ago. No worries. Exercise. Get sunlight. Eat single-ingredient foods. Most importantly, no sugar and you won't get sick.
@dpvisser
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
He has a minor case of dyscalculia. Don't mind him.
@lp.shakur
4 жыл бұрын
@@hariharanyuvaraj1754 well when getting educated about things I do mind him, because we wouldnt want people stating false facts do we?
@notcharlie8763
4 жыл бұрын
LPSkates ok karen
@LibraLivesOnline
4 жыл бұрын
Reasonable critique, I don't think anyone is getting up in arms about it.
@ck8191
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@multiyapples
Жыл бұрын
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
@kristyburgess9847
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an Aussie and I've always been fascinated by this case. Thanks heaps for another great video 😊
@miguelmackay4851
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting how "church music" can be related to dark moments in history and even be super scary!
@kelvinjanssen7889
4 жыл бұрын
5:20 i'd like to see marriage statistics from before those years. It's possible they Just Stayed home and waited a year for Social gatherings. Which would mean those people from the dark ages would be smarter than most people nowadays (even though we know what is going on and they didn't).
@scottydu81
3 жыл бұрын
Right, this virus is completely comparable to the black plague. Just like it, nothing different.
@TurquoiseInk
Жыл бұрын
I would love to see an episode of Biographic on finding the treatment for the Bubonic Plague
@billorights5390
4 жыл бұрын
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!
@fredkruse9444
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheLoneTerran
2 жыл бұрын
The other theories are interesting, but none really explain the egg sized buboes that covered the body. Smallpox was significantly smaller than the buboes, so much so that syphilis was called the Great Pox since it's pox were larger than smallpox. Human lice is an interesting thought, and one last thing, are we sure in those really bad years where the Black Death stayed year round, are we sure about the climate? If the summer and winter were milder than usual, it might explain why the disease stuck around if it were flea based. Also, it's funny that even with their limited knowledge of how disease and illness worked, they still knew quarantining and social distancing were good ideas. I wonder what those that survived these plagues would do if someone in their town were the equivalent of today's anti-masker, not respecting personal space and all that. We were asked to quarantine in a time of DoorDash and UberEats with stuff like Netflix and Hulu, and we still couldn't get conservatives to go along. What did the medieval people have to occupy their time during the long periods of isolation besides maybe a bible?
@matthewmedlang3799
4 жыл бұрын
Covid 19 got the world like " this isn't fair i dont want to wear a mask!!!!" -- Black Death: Hold my beer.
@ken_kaneki9830
3 жыл бұрын
Did you not know how serious Black Death is? Making jokes about it is really stupid.
@ken_kaneki9830
3 жыл бұрын
@Tyler Simmons isn't if offensive for the entire europe that died in 1348-1665
@griff5713
3 жыл бұрын
@@ken_kaneki9830 gallows humour is a coping mechanism and helps people get through tough times.
@nosuchthing8
3 жыл бұрын
@@ken_kaneki9830 hes making people that refuse to wear a mask look ridiculous
@InnannasRainbow
3 жыл бұрын
@@nosuchthing8 I have survived pandemics before without going full idiot over it and I refuse to go full idiot over this paltry virus.
@AstonishingRed
4 жыл бұрын
“And I saw, and look! a pale horse, and the one seated on it had the name Death. And the Grave was closely following him. And authority was given them over the forth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.” Revelation 6:8
@petahoee8281
4 жыл бұрын
lOl nice poem 😂
@AstonishingRed
4 жыл бұрын
Peta Hoee I know, it’s such a coincidence that those things are happening right lol?
@phyllisdevries5734
4 жыл бұрын
The pale horse, and it's rider have been roaming the Earth since before the birth of christ. It's nothing new.
@1pussychicken
4 жыл бұрын
Yer.... Blah blah blah.... what eva. This comment is totally irrelevant to what was then, and is now, a pathogen, a dreadful disease, and a medical problem. It's really sad to see today's 'educated?' people relying on a dubious text from a dim past to make sense of our 2020 world. I'm not denying that some of it is entertaining... But whoever was responsible for 'revelations' must have been eating some seriously wicked mushrooms. lol
@AstonishingRed
4 жыл бұрын
I’d be entertained too if I didn’t know what was going on.
@randalthor741
3 жыл бұрын
We tend to scoff a bit at the ideas they had about the plague being caused by vapours, but honestly based on the information available at the time from observations, it was a pretty reasonable theory.
@beth7935
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, this was AMAZING! You hardly ever hear about the second wave. I only found out about it a couple of years ago, but not in any detail, & cetainly not that it also killed so many young men- killing more children I can understand, but young men? Anyway, the analysis of the changing demographics was fascinating. I was surprised by the low death rates of clergy in the first wave- I really thought they'd died at a higher rate. I've read books for & against Y. pestis as the cause of the Black Death (the 1st wave) & I think the arguments for Y. pestis are stronger; I think that's also the most widely-held opinion. I ABSOLUTELY don't think it was a disease like smallpox- people knew perfectly well what smallpox was, & would have written that down; quite apart from the vastly different symptoms!
@alexharney3269
Жыл бұрын
Wow! 👏👏👏 you did an amazing job on this! Breathtaking narration! You deserve an award for this my guys!
@nickamalfitano3613
3 жыл бұрын
When talking about the plague, why do most ppl only talk about the Bubonic? Most seem to ignore the septicemic and pneumonic which were 100% fatal. Also funny how the Plague led to the creation of the middle class
@misiopuchatek152
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@thebrocialist8300
4 жыл бұрын
It’s always China (Italy also seems to make an appearance too frequently)
@pepeswoop
4 жыл бұрын
This dude just had to say it maaooo
@stevehill4615
4 жыл бұрын
maybe it's something to do with spaghetti and noodles ---- lol
@realAniram
4 жыл бұрын
It's probably a combination of survivor's bias (those two countries have kept great records for millennia) and the age and density they both have. They've been around for a long ass time so they were always places of international commerce. That means lots of people from different hygienic backgrounds and a very large fulltime population, which would be living in densely packed apartments and homes, which means more contact, which means faster spread. Them having lots of ports means they had the plague leaving to spread more and coming back in to them on regular ships. TL;DR : they were world powers with large navies and urban centers for more of humanity's history than pretty much anyplace else, which means more opportunity for infection spread no matter the era.
@pucca5233
4 жыл бұрын
Disease are more abundance in heavily populated and warm humid places, learn your geography and biology. Italy is a heavily populated area in Europe at the time, and Half of China always has hot and humid weathers and also very commercially active ever since ancient times
@oxycuntin2059
3 жыл бұрын
@Martin Chagas Family this comment gave me a stroke
@RejectedInch
2 жыл бұрын
The final touch in the end was priceless.
@justhereforkicks8208
4 жыл бұрын
I love hearing about the Black Death it’s fascinating as well as terrifying. Events of today have only made this page in our history more relevant not because of how things have transpired, but just giving us a glimpse of what could be. Had the coronavirus been more deadly than it already is, things would be very different right now. I might not be writing these words right now or you might not be around to read them, or we could all be dead and only Simon would be left standing! Seriously though, imagine had it been on that scale. There were already protests in the streets calling for the end of quarantine, riots and looting followed, though due to a completely different cause. Still the pattern is there, whoever is left would revert to savagery, in today’s society believe if we were faced with a pandemic that was wiping out huge portions of the population, people would adopt the mind set of “every man for himself”. People in the 14th century did as well. We are no more prepared for a disaster on that scale than they were, we like think we are, but we’re not. COVID-19 has proven that. The scariest part of that is; it’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when. That’s how the world is though civilizations rise and fall and one day we’ll meet our own collapse setting us back a few hundred years.
@jojomariano6672
4 жыл бұрын
I genuinely think they would still call whatever deadly plague it is, "fake," and that "it is harmless." If it happened today we are seeing exactly how it would be handled.
@jenniferwilson7762
4 жыл бұрын
Haha only Simon would be left..
@BTheBlindRef
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds good, but it's patently false. We have the germ theory of disease, the science of medicine (antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals), and vaccines. We have powerful microscopes, huge information networks that can exchange information globally nearly instantaneously. We have many orders of magnitude more understanding and tools at our disposal to fight such an outbreak than they ever had in the 14th century. In addition, people would NOT take such a disease lightly and call it "fake" or "harmless" @Joseph Roque. The reason why that kind of talk is allowed to flourish in this pandemic is because this pandemic, relatively speaking, IS quite mild. It's easy to dismiss something that kills a tiny fraction of the population, most of whom are elderly and out of most peoples' sight. That is not remotely the same thing as seeing 50% of your friends and neighbors drop dead in front of you. Would there be panic? Sure. Riots? Sure. Scapegoating? Without a doubt. But no, society today would not handle such a thing "exactly like they did in the 14th century". That is absurd. You want evidence? See how we've handled Ebola outbreaks in the past. Nothing like this, and those are some scary stuff.
@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724
4 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of every country besides the U.S.A. most developed nations are riding it out. Place that were already screwed prior yes and then it's just the ignorant populations of all nations that drag everyone down with them to the bottom pit.
@richardpotter6313
4 жыл бұрын
Had it actually existed, CV would be nasty. Now all we have is speration, exclusion, racism, and a tremendous threat to our way of life .... because they've been exposed and put on notice. No more, no less. Sucking up our money, our jobs, our children , our blood, our livelyhood ,our minds and our future ...all so they can live deliciously.
@stevestolarczyk8972
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think “Death Moves to Tuscany” would be a great movie title?
@JennaMaBob
4 жыл бұрын
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!
@AJDraws
4 жыл бұрын
I could listen to professor Simon all day
@bethwatts2408
4 жыл бұрын
Timing is everything - as we are currently in the grips of another pandemic and the children are about to go back to school.
@CrazyBear65
4 жыл бұрын
1:47 - That red line looks suspiciously like a laserbeam, and that dude holding looks like an alien. Allegedly.
@twocvbloke
4 жыл бұрын
I dunno, my winds from the south can make people feel very unwell......... :P
@tomtheplummer7322
4 жыл бұрын
Indeed. 💩💨🤢
@boudicaastorm4540
2 жыл бұрын
I've heard that the plague originated in the area of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, but I haven't been able to find info on the evidence for it, I'd be so interested to see how researchers have tracked it down to that specific part of the Silk Road.
@DeOneTrueSage
4 жыл бұрын
The most informative thing I learn from this is during a pandemic is not to open ones south window
@dawnpalmby5100
4 жыл бұрын
A good book is "In the Wake of the Plague" by Norman E. Cantor, its got details from across Europe with details on how and why so much changed from b4 and after the first wave
@KittyWhisperASMR
4 жыл бұрын
13:51 my favorite part of all Biographics videos ever
@Jessidafennecfox
4 жыл бұрын
Yes Kitteh
@zeusathena26
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great title for someone writing their memoirs about teaching preschool! 🤣
@Svartalf14
Жыл бұрын
oh, and the little image from the Seventh seal was a nice touch, made me want to watch it again.
@ocfos88
4 жыл бұрын
The bishop of Aarhus? Huh, first time I hear my home city having international historical importance in a while.
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