Note: Two of us are physicians and at the front lines of this all. We don’t take COVID lightly, but humor in dark times can help.
Feel like the word is coming to an end? Sheltering in place? COVID-19 cases soaring and the health care system at risk of being overwhelmed? No toilet paper and stuck at home with your kids full time? Or worst of all – had to cancel that dream trip?
This will eventually end but before you feel too sorry for yourself, let’s talk about the worst pandemic in all of history: the Black Death (bubonic plague) that swept through Europe in the 12th-15th century killing off one third of the population of Europe.
There are some particularly fascinating and bizarre artistic and cultural artifacts left behind by the Black Death that perhaps can give us a glimpse of what life may have felt like at the time. Eventually COVID 19 too will pass and travel will again be possible and for when it is, we give you (in the macabre atmosphere of the time): The Great Plague Tour of Europe.
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