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To be fair after ~300 years of plague almost every 10 years you get a little numb to it.
The pre-vaccine, pre-public health world was just kind of nuts.
“Have a bunch of kids, because the ones who aren’t strong and lucky aren’t going to make it.”
For reals!
What you mean ~300 years? Has there been some interruption since late Rome that I failed to notice?
As I understand it the period often referred to as The Black Death started in the early 1300s and ended in the late 1600s. Newton I think was mid to late 1600s. So that's about 300 years depending on when people will argue it started and all.
Right!?!
Oh, ok. Yeah there was a worse than normal outbreak during the previous 300 years, but "plague is raging in Europe" applies just as well for the previous 1000 years.
That said, I'm not disagreeing, 300 years should be enough to numb down a population.
For sure! Turns out open "sewers" and letting wildlife and pigs just do their thing wherever isn't great for health.
My thoughts were Newton didn't see it as anything other than normal so of course he's going on about his day. His life was the "this is fine dog" lol