If I remember correctly, Polandâs secret is that the jews where being blamed all over europe (as usual) as scapegoats for the black plague. Poland was the only place that accepted Jewish refugees, so pretty much all of them moved there.Â
Now, one of the major causes of getting the plague was poor hygiene. This proved very effective for the plague because everyone threw their poop into the streets because there were no sewers, and literally no one bathed because it was against their religion. Unless they were jewish, who actually bathed relatively often. When all the jews moved to Poland, they brought bathing with them, and so the plague had little effect there.
Milan survived by quarantining its city and burning down the house of anyone showing early symptoms, with the entire family inside it.Â
I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.
Damn Italy, you scary.
Poland:âHey, feeling a bit down? Have a quick wash! There, you see? All betterâ
Milan: âAw, feeling a bit sick are we? BURN MOTHERFUCKER, BURN!!!!!â
Also, this might have something to do with it: from what I understand, O blood type is uncommonly⌠common in Poland. Something to do with large families in small villages and a LOT of intermarriage. The black plague was caused by a bacterium that produced, in its waste in the human body, wastes that very closely mimic the âBâ marker sugars on red blood cells that keep the body from attacking its own immune system. Anyone who has a B blood type had an immune system that was naturally desensitized to the presence of the bacterium, and therefore was more prone to developing the disease. Anyone who had an O type was doubly lucky because the O blood type means the total absence of ANY markers, A or B, meaning that their bodysâ immune system would react quickly and violently against the invaders, while someone with an A may show symptoms and recover more slowly, while someone with B would have just died. Because O is a recessive blood type, it shows in higher numbers when more people who carry the recessive genes marry other people who also carry the recessive gene. Poland, which has a nearly 700 year history of being conquered by or partnering with every other nation in the surrounding area, was primarily an agricultural country, focused around smaller, farming communities where people were legally tied to, and required to work, âtheirâ land, and so historically never âspreadâ their genes across a large area. The economy was, and had been, unstable for a very long period of time leading up to the plague, the government had been ineffective and had very little reach in comparison to the armies of the other countries around for a very very long time, and so its people largely remained in small communities where multiple generations of cross-familial inbreeding could have allowed for this more recessive gene to show up more frequently. Thus, there could be a higher percentage of O blood types in any region of the country, guaranteeing less spread of the illness and moving slower when it did manage to travel. Combine this with the fact that there were very few large, urban centers where the disease would thrive, and with the above facts, and youâve got a lovely recipe for avoiding the plague.
Interestingly enough, as a result from the plague, the entirety of Europe now has a higher percentage of people with O blood type than any other region of the world.Â
WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL
When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.
Just to throw a nod in, as a medieval historian, this is all credible, and is the leading theory as to the plagues effectiveness at this point. So. Enjoy your new knowledge!
âIâm down with white nationalism but I will clutch my pearls if I hear an F-bomb.â
White people in a nutshell.
Is he calling her âyoung manâ or âyoung ma’amâ? I canât tell. Considering itâs infowars, may be relevant either wayâŚ..
He said âyoung manâ, no doubt in an attempt to launch into anti-trans rhetoric with her as a prop.
This is a good way to handle that.
why is it that every reactionary white dude talks like this. âoh wow, oh my gosh!! oh golly!! oh jeepers!!â
itâs actually a little bit horrifying that he would try to expose a child to the lion den of internet white nationalism by making her a prop to make fun of. but yeah, the little girl is âscandalousâ because she rightfully called this grown man a fucking idiot
Oh illiterate honey that isnât the topic of discussion
always be suspicious when someone tries to derail a conversation by talking about people taking âadvantageâ of a social safety net. brings this to mind:
It should be socially unacceptable to come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.
It should be socially unacceptable to make your workers come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.
It should be socially unacceptable to pay your employees so little that they have no choice but to come in with a cold or similarly contagious disease.
that episode where a team with only one girl and a lot of guys suddenly has another girl join the team, and everyone loves her for some reason (usually implied to be that shes pretty), and the original girl immediately hates and cannot stand second girl
are you kidding
whenever i have been in an all boy group the appearance of anything even remotely a girl has been an utter relief and total joy are you kidding
My entire professional life has been in teams surrounded by men. Like, literally, there have been repeated times in my life when I was the only woman on that floor.
On two separate occasions in my working life, Iâve joined a team and the other woman already on that team has later come over to talk quietly to me and say something to the effect of âThank god, another woman. I was so happy to find you were joining us.â.
I guess this is how you can tell a guy wrote the script and he had very little real world experience in the environment heâs writing. When youâre in an all-male team, the only other woman would have to be a straight out sociopath who casually poisoned people around her to make me hate her. And even if she was, Iâd at least try four times before I gave up. Or maybe consider joining her (I mean she might have a reason for what sheâs doing after all).
How to introduce the second female character to the team: Both women are meeting somewhere the male teammates have never been. The more established woman is giving the newbie a detailed profile on every dude in the team, how best to deal with him, and how much of an asshat heâs likely to be.
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