Don't forget that at that time sanitation practices in cities really sucked.
You threw your full chamber pot and garbage out the window and on to the
street.
Everybody drank from a common well.
Nobody knew about how diseases spread (It was black magic or the wrath of
God for your sins).
Few
At 8:35 PM -0800 1/17/03, Neil Johnson wrote:
Few people realize that one of the reasons we live so long today is
because of
the lowly toliet.
This is the source of the observation, Governments are like toilets.
They're necessary for public health, but you shouldn't worship them.
YMMV - Bill
from today's white house briefing...
QAnd if I can ask you one final question -- what can you tell us about
the Texas Tech problem, bubonic plague samples apparently missing from a lab
there?
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware of the report, and this is a matter that
the FBI
and the CDC have
At 07:46 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Andri Isidoro Fernandes
Esteves wrote:
A huge fraction of the population wasn't in the cities and town at all,
where the plague spread most virulently, and so their survivors didn't
inherit immunity
At 03:18 AM 1/16/03 +, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote:
And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the
Surely you mean inherited, not acquired.
descendents of the plague survivors.
See _Guns Germs and Steel_
Note however, without occasional plagues, a population
and schools were oncverted into Hep wards, and you could
go there provided you brought your own bed.)
-TD
And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the
descendents of the plague survivors. (Actualy, in the dark ages, it wasn't
only one plague.. it was several plagues (mutants
there provided you brought your own bed.)
-TD
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Plague
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:59:42 -0500
from today's white house briefing...
QAnd if I can ask you one final question -- what can you tell us
about
the Texas Tech
of aquired imunity, for we are the
descendents of the plague survivors. (Actualy, in the dark ages, it wasn't
only one plague.. it was several plagues (mutants and new pathogens) that
spread wavelike through europe... the populations died mainly because of
sistematically reduced imunity
