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cam-pteryx

Differing schools of thought on how to engage with humans

layla4ever-deactivated20221119

When lingerie ads had women with pubic hair...this is what they took from us 🚬😞

tipyn

This cannot be left in the comments.

thebibliosphere

Watching my neighbors across the street having a block party during a literal time of pandemic makes me wonder if several hundred years ago there was another person looking out their window watching their neighbors congregate during the black death like verily forsooth, thou art truly ass-headed knaves.

medievalthymes

this was most likely rhetorical but i wrote a whole paper on people resisting plague regulations last semester, and i can say that people have been dumb about quarantining for the plague since the concept was conceived in 14th-century Italy. my favourite is when, in 1630, the pope excommunicated the members of the health board in Florence for trying to enforce quarantine upon its citizens because he felt it went against “christian ideals”. merchants were also particularly bad about following quarantine regulations as they faced financial hardship because their goods spoiled. There are also sources that tell us that there were people who broke out of pesthouses and would then wipe the red crosses off infected households doors. so to answer your question: there most likely was someone who did look out their window during the black death and watched their neighbours being dumbasses