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slicksquid · 1 year

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I hate being on twitter for competitive splatoon because this shitass social media keeps showing me the most braindead takes such as “public health measures during the Black Death were better than the Covid-19 pandemic”

#it’s time for me to be a history major #purely looking at the stats:#okay. yeah the disease that wiped out an estimated 1/3-2/3 of the European population had better public health measures than now #THE MOST DEADLY PANDEMIC IN HUMAN HISTORY #minimum 75 MILLION death toll #estimated to get up to TWO HUNDRED MILLION #COVID’s current death toll according to WHO is just under 7 million #WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT #I HAVENT EVEN MENTIONED THAT THE ‘PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES’ THE PERSON WAS REFERENCING IS BLOODLETTING SELF-FLAGELLATION AND WALLING CITIES #MEDICINE WAS NOT THAT GREAT IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY #most braindead twitter user #like the bubonic plague was HORRIFIC #it quite literally devastated europe and Asia and the Middle East like everywhere #and had quite far reaching impacts #like take a second to think about it #just in Europe 30-60% of the population dies #that is traumatizing dude #just like #HOW CAN YOU THINK LIKE THIS TWITTER USER

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