plague

Was thinking about the Black Death, which went worldwide in the 1300's and stayed for around 200 years. It used to come back every three years or so and wipe out entire settlements. The gruesome history is well known. But I been thinking of the pathology as depicted in woodcuts and paintings over that period. They had no reason to falsify what they show us. And right away I think they got more than 1 plague. The swiftest killer was evidently pneumonic plague. Its the same bacterium but it goes straight to the lungs and is an aerosol; that is it spreads by the breath, sneezes etc. And all the big killers, such as smallpox, are mainly aerosols. Now we just had a small outbreak in China. Notice the ppl trying to leave the area en masse? thats how it spreads; cos u get a large goup 1 has it, they all get it and they move into clean areas and instantly it goes with them. You know when its out of control because the ppl are moving out en masse, and your medics are dying so fast there's no-one to stop it, or learn. In fact thats what you look for; when the medics get out its bad, they running for their lives.
Now the latest outbreak of that doesn't sound nearly so virulent as the type in the Black Death. Our victims mostly survived, the authorities restricted movement, the meds [br. antibiotics] worked fine. But in the BD people died in terrible agony in 24 hours! coughing up vast quantities of blackened blood. So it was much more severe, even allowing for the primitive medicine of the era. But it is still recognisably pneumonic plague; first symptoms, like a bad cold?
Together with that they had bubonic plague; thats the bacterium spread by the bites [infected bloods exchange] of fleas carried by black rats. Which is why to this day the sight of a black rat anywhere in England results in dozens of bio-haz suited men destroying literally all wild life in the vicinity. Anyhow I've seen a modern case of bubonic p. And its only similar to the pics of the BD. The victim did have large blackened swellings on every gland. He did have pyrexia ++. He was saved but terribly brain-damaged. And like rabies lifelong severe depression. [rabies furiosa, the classic raving, fighting, salivating, insane , hydrophobic type I have seen too. No survivors] I seen all these on films. [serious ones]
This is the other form of rabies, where the victims usually survive with fast treatment; its mostly loss of motor co-ordination plus fever, insanity] My point is its nothing like as severe as BD. Which first symptom was a circle of red sores, coughs/sneezes. The enormeous pustulated buboes ANYWHERE, not just the glands. And these were agonising, bursting, stench. any recorded survivors simply never got to this stage. Anyone who did was gone. And look, a rabies symptom! The records say that ppl who suddenly got very friendly, went around kissing relatives and later insisting on close contact even with strangers were realised after a few years as bub plag. spreaders. Now rabies can do that. It affects the brain and stimulates the victim to contact others; and of course the disease then spreads, similar accounts of smallpox. Which I have also seen, pics, films. So it appears to me that a litle known affect of the big killers is this brain control; getting victims to 'herd'. Anyway we see at once that this particular plague is much more severe, and somehow different. Its odd that you get the two forms in tandem. But I think of the pics from Italy in particular and you know what? I think there was a third, unknown form. Look at the corpses. Some of them display small red ulcerations, which are all over the body; even the feet and legs. These are not buboes. They're something else. And it looks, from the paintings, that the victims are being thrown into the streets, there to die. Now why? To this day no-one but me thinks there's anything different. The aerosol pvictims were dead so fast they nearly all died indoors..the corpses collected nightly and buried en masse; usually by ppl who had already somehow survived. But you simply get no record whatever of ppl surviving this form, which everyone thinks is the same disease. The bub. form then as now were kept indoors. That entire family would die, and everyone knew it. They used to burn down the houses. The place quarantined; which is when we first find that word being used. But this form? They threw them out to die. Odd, isn't it? In one painting from Florence you see them being dragged along beside the cart. Now I think of it, were they being thrown still living into the pits? Whatever this was it was so awful they reacted like that? And look its not an aerosol. They masked against 'the miasma' aka as stench; for both the others, though in those days they knew nothing. But not this one? And you can see the absolute agony of the victims. This is a virus. A contact virus. And its fast. And deadly. No survivors. So thats still out there. Makes you think, doesn't it?