1720: The Bubonic Plague. It killed 100,000 people in Marcella, France. I spelled the city wrong because my phone won’t stop autocorrecting me and I am in no mood to keep retyping that shit.

1820: Cholera Outbreak. It killed 100,000 people.

1920: Influenza Pandemic. Most deadliest disease with the deaths in the millions.

2020: Surprise motherfuckers. CORONAVIRUS.

I didn’t want to add this to the other thread because this is crazy to me. Is this pure coincidence or the government trying to reduce population every 1000 years?!

I was hoping for a rant against the annoying habits of those of us born in the 90s rather than some nonsense you've seen on Twitter.

Which government?

Mar 5, 2020 0:00:06 GMT Todd said:

Which government?

Gyna.

And @admin, I didn’t see this on Twitter. Someone send me a link to this story.

Perhaps Thanos is real and instead of dusting away it's taking a more slow approach. We're overpopulated, but that's being corrected.

Mar 4, 2020 23:22:01 GMT KING KID said:

1720: The Bubonic Plague. It killed 100,000 people in Marcella, France. I spelled the city wrong because my phone won’t stop autocorrecting me and I am in no mood to keep retyping that shit.

1820: Cholera Outbreak. It killed 100,000 people.

1920: Influenza Pandemic. Most deadliest disease with the deaths in the millions.

2020: Surprise motherfuckers. CORONAVIRUS.

I didn’t want to add this to the other thread because this is crazy to me. Is this pure coincidence or the government trying to reduce population every 1000 years?!

You mean every 100 years?

Flu-A killed KING KID's math abilities.

Great way to reduce the population and tackle that pesky climate change problem.

Snap!

Mar 5, 2020 1:47:27 GMT NATH45 said:

Great way to reduce the population and tackle that pesky climate change problem.

Snap!

How dare you!

I totally believe there is more to this and a fair amount of fear mongering is going on, but then again I always think there's always more to the story in many cases.

We are almost 7.8 billion on a planet meant for 4 billion (homeostasis wise). We are living much longer thanks to technology. It's terrible, but plagues and catastrophes is Earths' way of telling us 'there's too many of you GTF OFF'. They usually hit to more populated areas or maybe it just seems that way.

Mar 5, 2020 2:17:32 GMT System said:

Mar 5, 2020 1:47:27 GMT NATH45 said:

Great way to reduce the population and tackle that pesky climate change problem.

Snap!

How dare you!

You’re stealing my childhood.

Mar 5, 2020 3:17:33 GMT iron maiden said:

I totally believe there is more to this and a fair amount of fear mongering is going on, but then again I always think there's always more to the story in many cases.

We are almost 7.8 billion on a planet meant for 4 billion (homeostasis wise). We are living much longer thanks to technology. It's terrible, but plagues and catastrophes is Earths' way of telling us 'there's too many of you GTF OFF'. They usually hit to more populated areas or maybe it just seems that way.

So, like... If all of India was wiped out in one fell swoop the rest of us would be good for ten generations or so?

Mar 5, 2020 3:17:33 GMT iron maiden said:

I totally believe there is more to this and a fair amount of fear mongering is going on, but then again I always think there's always more to the story in many cases.

We are almost 7.8 billion on a planet meant for 4 billion (homeostasis wise). We are living much longer thanks to technology. It's terrible, but plagues and catastrophes is Earths' way of telling us 'there's too many of you GTF OFF'. They usually hit to more populated areas or maybe it just seems that way.

At times like this my editor would say no anthropomorphism <.<

Plagues are the result usually of public health issues.  Black plague and Typhus were spread as the result of sleeping in mats covered in fleas and rats.  Cholera spread when untreated sewage water was reused as drinking water.  The flu variantes and TB spread due to poor healthcare and workers right forcing sick people into confined spaces without time to recover.  Most of these plagues are diseases of poverty that are eradicated essentially when better standards of living are employed.

The reason they appear to hit more populated areas, is because population density is often associated with poverty.  Also population density increases how fast an infectious disease will spread.  But the poverty and associated lack of health care is what gets the death numbers.  


The hundred year cycle is a fun theory until you map out all pandemics and see there is no pattern.  Can pick any decade and make the same post.  Basically just shows the great plagues in history.