black plague

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“The Black Plague in Europe was a 20% lethal event and it set society back 250 years,” he said, adding that a Nipah pandemic would “set us back over a millennium in my estimate.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote that in the wake of the Black Plague, survivors found themselves “neither destroyed nor improved,” and we are still in the process of identifying our change through negative definitions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2022

Not all of the comparisons between the Black Plague and COVID-19 are foreboding.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

From the Black Plague of the Middle Ages to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, epidemics have been interpreted as engines of a raw, fierce justice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2021

Declaration eyeballed me, and in the same tone of voice she would have used to say, The Black Plague?, she said, “Marbles?”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles