The plague

" We are the Plague ” by Ebeneeza K

A plague doctor's duties were often limited to visiting victims to verify whether they had been afflicted or not. Surviving records of contracts drawn up between cities and plague doctors often gave the plague doctor enormous latitude and heavy financial compensation, given the risk of death involved for the plague doctor himself. Most plague doctors were essentially volunteers, as qualified doctors had (usually) already fled, knowing they could do nothing for those affected. Considered an…

Anne Roberts explores the incidence of plague in England from 1348 to 1679.

When people think of climate change, most think of rising temperatures, drought, and an increase in storms—the type of climate change Earth is undergoing now. A lot has also been written about how drought and its ills caused empires and kingdoms to fail.

Here is a graphic description of the symptoms and causes of Plague, the horrific disease believed to have caused the Black Death of the 14th century.

it is no one to help you when the help is trying to kill you

John Sloan THE CAFÉ AT BETHESDA FOUNTAIN, CENTRAL PARK

Albert Camus’ The Plague is a dark novel … but it’s also a hopeful novel focused on an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Algerian city of Oran in the 1940s. While it’s one of my favorite books … I’m more in the mood these days for alternative forms of escapism, and the furthest I’ll go down a literary quarantine rabbit hole is Erik Larson’s nonfiction portrait of London during the Blitz, The Splendid and the Vile. Still, the four editions of The Plague spanning the 1950s to t

Adam Gopnik writes about the political lessons of the current and past pandemics, deriving from the work and commentary of Albert Camus, Niall Ferguson, Wade Davis, and Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

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