The Bubonic Plague, I bet you’ve heard those words before. Probably in High School in your World History class or maybe in your college history class. You probably instantly wanted to go to sleep as soon as you heard those words. Do you ever really reflect or even think about the Bubonic Plague and how it still continues to have a huge impact on our life now? Finding this article which talks more in depth on how the plague is spread. In a way hearing about the three forms of the plague and how it came from Yersinia Pestis bacterium was weird and it made me very uncomfortable. It’s so weird that how something from our past that made so many die is somewhere still lingering. I enjoyed this article though, it was interesting to learn how this deadly plague still is problem and mainly in second world nations.
The article took a turn in the middle and talks about how some are now debating whether that plague was even the plague that killed 50% of Europe’s population decades ago. Although I do see the point of view of someone view on this. I don’t believe it matters, if 50% of Europe’s population died it was a horrific thing and the fact that people are still getting infected today shows that there should be way more awareness around the topic mostly in classes who teach about the historical black plague. Supposively, there was research done which finally settled this debate that the plague is the plague and nothing else.
The first article talks about the spread of the plague and the scientific aspect of it. My second article is more about the first hand experience and what was going through people’s mind around the world. It is a cronical written at the cathedral priority of Rochester in between 1314 and 1350. It describes the enormous impact it had on peasant’s lives and how so many people died that the poor took jobs from people who had died from the plague. These both are similar because they both had a huge effect on those surrounding the person with the plague. It shows how much the plague changed lives. The issue that is raised here is that people didn’t know how to cope with the effects of the bubonic plague. This would not be interesting or inpactful to a Minnesotan in 2019.
Overall, This article and what a Minnesotan could take from it would be to know is that the plague is still around and is still a issue. Although I think history won’t repeat itself due to better medicine or antibiotics. Minnesotans should really be careful on how they treat the earth and take proper precautions to not spread this plague.
Work cited:
https://psmag.com/environment/the-bubonic-plague-til-death-do-we-part
History at Normandale 