I worked with a man who lived in the London, England area who told me an interesting story about a friend of his. They lived in a very, very old house that throughout the centuries was renovated and updated a lot. He was in the process of breaking down a wall to expand the room when he found an old wall that was previously covered up by newer walls. When they started to break through they found hundreds of rat skeletons infused into the wall. Finding this very strange and creepy, he decided to do some research on why this could have been done. He found an article that stated during the Black Plague the people knew the rats had something to do with all the deaths that were occurring, but didn’t know how or why this was happening. At the time many believed that the rats were cursed, and they were continually looking for wards to drive off the rats and the plague. Since there was an abundance of dead rats in the area, local builders felt that if they mixed them in with the mortar and cement, it would scare off the live rats carrying the disease. So not only did the guy find out why there was an abundance of dead rats imbedded in his wall, he found out that parts of the house was built sometime around 1350 ad, which was 500 years earlier than he thought. I found this story very interesting and appropriate based on your video!
@@davidchandler2087 it's amazing how there are houses in London, like not even castles, just old houses that normal people lived, that are older than America itself.
About 1918 being a horrible year, in my native country, Iceland, we have a whole book (at least when I was a kid) that was basically all about how terrible this year was. In that year we had the worst economic depression of the 20th century (caused by WWI), the Spanish influenza epidemic which killed a sizeable population, a massive volcanic eruption IN A GLACIER causing massive flooding, and then to top it all off we had one of the coldest recorded winters ever up until that point. 1918, not a great year anywhere.
Well, i have to disagree with the "anywhere" part. Oddly enough. Here in Czechia (and Slovakia also) we celebrate 1918 as the year we got rid of Habsburg monarchy and the county was formed (Due to WWI partially). It is a national holiday.
guzmaekstroem that’s really cool, congrats on the 100 year anniversary of your countries independence! Similarly, the only good thing to come out of 1918 for us was our sovereignty from the Danes (not full independence but close) and that was also largely a result of the war.
Mexico the year that Mexican Revolution (which was basically a civil war), ended setting up the political party that ruled till 2000, a party known for killing students and disappearing reporters. Edit: I was off on the date it officialy ended but pretty much the whole decade sucked.
You know damn well that within days of destroying the last smallpox samples, mediumpox will emerge and we'll be wishing we had some samples of smallpox to study.
We hoomanity destroys its last samples of small pox, it will be because they're confident they can engineer a more destructive, more selective plague. With in most of your lifetimes. Congratulations!
Had malaria twice, and would not wish it on my worst enemy. It's one of those where you are scared that you will die and then you are scared that you will not die 🤣
Hey J-man, do me a solid and swing some famine my way. Been packing on the pounds since my last break-up and could use a hand. Love your work. Peace and shit.
Huh? All I remember from the stupid Oregon Trail crap that I did in grade school was trading in pelts. I guess that's what they used as currency back in those days. At least that's what my teacher claimed anyways.
Thanksgiving and I will be there at all the time and I will be there at all the time and I will be there for it it's just the vhs was just thinking that bad the time but it will force myself and the other will you
@@chuckmaddox6725 Seriously?! SERIOUSLY??!?!?! 😒🤬😡🤯🙄😑 I am a nurse, and I gotta say, if you really believe coronavirus isn’t real, you are the worst type of person. People like you are the reason our country hasn’t been successful at controlling this virus. You are extremely lucky you haven’t been personally affected. I will shamelessly admit I’m judging you, but I still wouldn’t wish this virus on you or anyone in your family. Have fun with your extremely naïve “opinion,” which is really just complete and utter ignorance.
@@ASHl33164 a plague is a bacterial infection. They weren’t wrong. Coronavirus is a virus. I could be wrong cuz I just looked it up on google and the definition was bacterial infection.
My grandma caught that influenza strain back in 1918, when she was a little toddler in Brooklyn. She managed to survive by the skin of her teeth, grow up, raise hell, have a badass life, create my mother, and stride off into the unknowable ether in 2004 surrounded by her loving family. All of us exist only because we still hang from threads threaded through the fickle fingers of the fist of fate. So let's try our best to be kind.
You forgot the honorable mention - polio. I'm too young to remember it, but apparently it was scary. My mom remembers her sister and her not being allowed to play outside because of the polio epidemic.
The corona virus is nothing like the plagues mentioned in this video. Saying stuff like that just makes people unreasonably fearful. Better to be factual. If the death rate somehow increases several million times we can start talking...
@@user-lv6rn9cf8m stop downplaying the deaths! It's not a freaking contest. This is something that a lot of people have never dealt with. We have a right to think it's awful. Who cares iF thE WorLD hAs SeEN woRsE. This is the worse we have seen and it's all we know. Stop telling me what to think and feel.
Yeah, Google's AI seems so good, it could write comments in your place... and an expert could have a hard time telling the Real-you and the AI-you apart ;-)
My first experience with New Jersey was watching the front of a dodge Durango burst into flames as soon as it crossed the border. Overall a pretty good day though.
One of my favourite medical facts is that the final stage of AIDS is scientifically known as 'full-blown aids' as he says in the video. Still cracks me up even though it's a touchy subject. Also I wanted to add that Magic Johnson, one of the best basketball players of all time, was another person to normalize AIDS and get it the attention it deserves. I also live in Kwa-zulu Natal, the province in South Africa which has the highest AIDS percentage, around 17%, in the country with the most AIDS-affected people in the world. Our neighbouring country Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has a higher percentage at 27% although it has a far lower population.
Magic Johnson to me is proof there was a cure for AIDS in the early 90s but it was withheld from the population because of the cost and that at that time it was thought to only infect gays and drug needle sharers. Undesirables in the 1990s. There's no other way he should be alive today or should have lived at all past about 1994 if not for being a crazy rich celebrity that was given access to a cure that was withheld from millions of people. Our society it truly evil.
@@vicenzor3625 There is a temporary "Cure" called ARVs, Antiretroviral treatment. It doesn't cure the condition but it reduces the amount of HIV in your body and keeps you healthy. Problem is it's extremely expensive, which is even more fucked up because it exists but only the 0.1% could afford it when most sufferers are struggling to make it financially as it is
My best friend at the time contracted HIV in 2000. He's living a normal life today, works as a teacher, is married, travels, etc. Growing up in the 80s it was a death sentence and so taboo that it was only hush-hush talked about.
Just thought I'd ad that that as someone currently in their early 20's, who grew up well after the HIV breakout, our culture surrounding condom use is basically you use one by default.
@UCW49svTT9b99qyZi_R34MtQ wtf really? No you imbecile he's doing her without a condom nothing to do with rape nor does it even sound like it does unless you want there to be.
@@fordshojoe8080 If a guy and I agreed that we only use condoms, and then he just shoves it in me raw without first asking if I'm comfortable with that, I'd feel pretty fucking violated. I didn't say he could do that. So yeah, definitely wrong, definitely outright rape if he kept going.
I understand, but they are trying to make an honest living. Must be tough to have to fall back on that. I actually feel sorry for them, but I'm an old softy. But not so soft, I don't hang up on them. Because of them, I rarely answer my phone, and only respond to messages left by family and friends. My "cure" for that "plague".
1918 was so bad and went on for so long that my great grandmother died from it, my great grandfather remarried, then he died of it and his new wife abandoned my grandfather and his uncle at an orphanage because there were no other blood relatives that could take them. They were all dead. That whole side of the family was wiped away except for two little kids.
Thank you UA-cam for dropping this into my suggested videos right when a national emergency was declared for the COVID-19. Hearing how millions of people died from other uncontainable diseases really calmed me down. 😐😑😶
Compare to a percentage of population, and it's nowhere as bad. Now also consider that 100,000 people died in 2021 in America from drug overdose, and you can see that we have other epidemics that need attention @@nosuchthing8
@Joshua Tootell a million people died from covid already in America alone. And unlike most of these other issues, like cancer or drug overdoses, you CAN catch covid from someone that's standing in line at the grocery store. The average life span has declined, and the death rate has jumped up. You couldn't be more wrong.
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Sickle cell is the homogenous trait. While protective, the problems outweigh the benefits. Being heterozygous for the trait, however, is less overall detrimental and just about as protective.
It wont have to be remade. Covid-19 only spreads fast, its nowhere near potent enough to be even nominated for this list. If it truly was that deadly or dangerous to be on this list, we would live in an apocalypse atm. We dont.
The expression "mind your own beeswax". That expression came from antebellum time. On southern plantations, the expression could be heard among the ladies. Small Pox was active in antebellum time and the survivors were left with circular scars. These scars were not acceptable to the plantation ladies. What they would do is fill the scars with beeswax and cover it up with makeup. Hense "Mind your own beeswax" Joe Taylor Tour Guide New Orleans, La. French Quarter
Aliens: We are to speak with your leaders, we are here to study your war like culture. U.N. Spokesperson: That's great, by the way we have these great hand crafted blankets to give as a gift. Thanks for stopping by.
There is a really amazing novel about someone trying to weaponize that "sledge hammer small pox". It's definitely one of my top 5 reads. Its called "I am Pilgrim". It actually switches perspective between the 2 lead characters back and forth. One is the creator of the weapon and the other is a US black ops agent who is tasked with tracking him. Code name: Pilgrim. It really gives you perspective from both sides. Super highly recommend it. It has some good science it in and lots of cool spy stuff.
U said why would an advanced species land on a planet that mostly water when thats there weakness. Hmm. My thought was why are we trying to go to space when no oxygen is our weakness. Makes one think. But I do agree with u that some1 would think that martians would at least be prepared for it. Like we wear space suits in preparation for no oxygen. Great show Joe
Apparently the War of the worlds ’panic’ never actually happened. The broadcast wasn’t that popular. It was later made up as a PR stunt to advertise the show. The ’panic’ is one of those things that isn’t true, despite everyone knowing it is.
The idea that Welles created a panic among listeners who thought there was a real invasion is unsupported by facts. The newspapers stories about this 'panic' were an attempt to discredit radio as a source of 'real' news. Makes we wonder about how well the rest of the video is researched. www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/
Swinging the pendulum all the way back in the other direction with this silly conspiracy tale that it was the newspapers conspiring against radio isn't going to restore balance. It couldn't have been an advertising stunt either because it was a live broadcast that had already occurred. It's just the mirror image of the same nonsense you two are supposedly trying to debunk. Some people did freak out, but very few. This was a commercial radio broadcast and they took station breaks and announced that this was a dramatic program. But it wasn't a massive audience, it was about 2% of the listeners in that hour according to ratings agencies. There were other radio networks besides CBS with more popular programs.
My grandpa was a teenager at the time, and he did listen to the broadcast. I asked him if he was scared by it, and he said no that he was a regular listener to the show, which was an anthology, and he recognized Orson Wells's voice. He had also read War of the Worlds so that he also recognized the story as a story. He had never heard of the panic until much later. He thought the whole panic was a publicity stunt.
How did the story of panicked listeners begin? Blame America’s newspapers. Radio had siphoned off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. So the papers seized the opportunity presented by Welles’ program to discredit radio as a source of news. The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted. In an editorial titled “Terror by Radio,” the New York Times reproached “radio officials” for approving the interweaving of “blood-curdling fiction” with news flashes “offered in exactly the manner that real news would have been given.” Warned Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry’s trade journal, “The nation as a whole continues to face the danger of incomplete, misunderstood news over a medium which has yet to prove ... that it is competent to perform the news job.” www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html
@@skullduggery1096 Laowhy86 on UA-cam put out an hour long video talking about how the Chinese government does not have it under control. Listen especially at 46 minutes to what they literally say just matter of factually. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has moved portable crematories with tons per day of capacity into the Wuhan area. Now that is scary. ua-cam.com/video/TOHIhshyWE4/v-deo.html
@Michael Jones Wrong on many levels. First different family of virus so it is not literally the flu. Second the case mortality rate is 3.4%, just announced by the WHO. This makes it 34 times more deadly than the average flu. It is far more infectious. If it is just a bad flu why has China been shut down? The Chinese government is not behaving like it is just a flu. By the end of the year the death toll will be in the millions. But given its exponential growth in a month, 2 at the most it will be obvious to everyone how bad this is.
Fun fact, my mother's friend at school (late 1950s) survived the bubonic plague. She lived in an old Tudor house made with wattle and daub which had been bulked out with horse hair. When they were having some building work done, she wasn't given a mask, and breathed in the dust - that horse hair still had plague microbes on it from many centuries past and she nearly died. She's thankfully now happily retired with grandchildren, but yersinia pestis sure tried its best to change that timeline.
@@RELO6 wow never thought about that before, if alcoholism didn't exist, neither would I, On the other side I suspect alcohol contributed to quite a few pregnancys.
That's really sad and hopeful at the same time. If that makes any sense. I feel for your gggrandfather though .... He must have lived in constant fear for his second family.
Fascinating. My Great Grandmother died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. My Nan was only 3!Its both interesting and sad for this to be given some context. xxx
Awesome video! This reminds me of the last scene of the movie 'War of the Worlds', when the narrator says that the smallest organisms on Earth killed the aliens
"War of the Worlds" and the Orson Welles broadcast were the same H.G.Wells story updated to the time that they were created as a radio play and then a feature movie. While I wasn't born in time for the broadcast drama, I did see the movie in a theater when it was first released. My family had a radio for many years before television was common enough for us to own one. We listened to radio plays where our imagination created the settings much better than TV dramas of the 1950's could do, and like many of those, they were done in real time.
I got very mad about that ending when I first saw the movie because it says God created the microbes and I seriously doubt Wells believed in God. Then I went back and read the book and that’s exactly how he worded it in the book. Oops.
I think the craziest thing to me is that all of us watching this video right now are incredibly lucky to be here. Our bloodline didn’t end due to one of these pandemics wiping our ancestors out
Yes, please do a show about Bubonic Plague in Europe Joe. The impact of it, the fear it caused, the emptying of the fields, the rise of Italian city states, and its relationship to agriculture, industry and science is relatively unknown, but profound. Perhaps its history may speak to the predicament we're in now.
I thought the war of the world's panic was a myth. I remember reading an article that very few people actually even listened to the broadcast. I could be misremembering though.
You are correct. It wasn’t a big deal. I gotta be honest I was bored with this video and almost gave up until Joe blew my mind with “decimate”. It will now be my pet peeve. Thank you Joe.
In Samoa this week, 39 children got red measles. 35 of them died. I am immunodeficient and can get almost every viral or bacterial infection. I hate hearing about people not vaccinating their kids. I got red measles when I was 17 and got very very sick. Should have been in the hospital with a 105 degree fever, but there was nowhere to put me into isolation.
In 92 my uncle was the soul survivor of a head on collision car accident, he was asleep in the back of a Van so his brain didn’t register the accident and his body being relaxed played a big part . He had massive internal bleeding though and needed a transfusion , which he unfortunately contracted AIDS from 😞 It was really hard watching him deteriorate. He eventually passed from a lung infection at 34 years old
'And then you Die....... hence the word Death' your awesome Joe, truly. Informative video mate, loved it! Please do more Tangent Cam! Also well shaped and trimed beard mate, looks realy good! Take care Joe :)
15:11 actually you got it right. Vacca IS STILL italian for Cow, albeit it's a slightly less used - and more vernacular - synonym of the main word for Cow, which is Mucca. Of course it was also the same term in Latin, but in every contemporary italian vocabulary you will find Vacca as well.
You forgot to mention the variant of Small Pox that cause your skin to slough off your body in sheets. Like a reptile shedding but there's no new skin underneath.
As a fun note, Yersinia Pestis is still present in rodents in several places in the world. Some you wouldn't expect. At the Grand Canyon there are signs warning that the local squirrel population carries it. Which is particularly problematic because that species of squirrel is very gregarious and is not afraid to approach and even climb on park visitors with regularity. And yeah, I know it's not the rodents, but the fleas that are the problem. But that's one tick closer than I want to get to the plague, thankyouverymuch.
THERE is a small town in the UK that seems to have been immune to the plague. the people in that town also seem to be immune to AIDS. Saw a show about this a few years ago. do a show on this please.
Interesting video on the Spanish Flu from the folks at Extra Credit - Extra History here on the tubes if anyone wants to check out a cool 4 or 5 part animated series.
Their series on Justinian covered that plague in a fair bit of detail, too. Which makes sense considering it was one of those events that literally changed the direction of history.
You forgot about measles, especially for the impact on native populations in North and South america. Measles is effing terrifying, especially when you consider SSPE
Or we could go the more targeted routes of specifically eliminating the particular species of mosquito that carries malaria while simultaneously introducing other species of mosquito which don't carry the disease into those ecosystems (so that role is still being filled and we don't wind up unintentionally killing other species) _or_ even targeting the organism that the mosquitoes are carrying in the first place.
I’ve known a few people who had it, both here in the US, and in South America. The thing is, malaria is so old that there are mutations, like sickle cell, that provide resistance if not immunity to this.
I worked with a man who lived in the London, England area who told me an interesting story about a friend of his. They lived in a very, very old house that throughout the centuries was renovated and updated a lot. He was in the process of breaking down a wall to expand the room when he found an old wall that was previously covered up by newer walls. When they started to break through they found hundreds of rat skeletons infused into the wall. Finding this very strange and creepy, he decided to do some research on why this could have been done. He found an article that stated during the Black Plague the people knew the rats had something to do with all the deaths that were occurring, but didn’t know how or why this was happening. At the time many believed that the rats were cursed, and they were continually looking for wards to drive off the rats and the plague. Since there was an abundance of dead rats in the area, local builders felt that if they mixed them in with the mortar and cement, it would scare off the live rats carrying the disease. So not only did the guy find out why there was an abundance of dead rats imbedded in his wall, he found out that parts of the house was built sometime around 1350 ad, which was 500 years earlier than he thought. I found this story very interesting and appropriate based on your video!
1350 AD.. Incredible just how old..
@@davidchandler2087 it's amazing how there are houses in London, like not even castles, just old houses that normal people lived, that are older than America itself.
About 1918 being a horrible year, in my native country, Iceland, we have a whole book (at least when I was a kid) that was basically all about how terrible this year was.
In that year we had the worst economic depression of the 20th century (caused by WWI), the Spanish influenza epidemic which killed a sizeable population, a massive volcanic eruption IN A GLACIER causing massive flooding, and then to top it all off we had one of the coldest recorded winters ever up until that point.
1918, not a great year anywhere.
hognigk96 Umm, books don’t ‘unbook’ with age..
Meant that it was mandatory reading when I was a kid. I don’t English so well.
Well, i have to disagree with the "anywhere" part.
Oddly enough. Here in Czechia (and Slovakia also) we celebrate 1918 as the year we got rid of Habsburg monarchy and the county was formed (Due to WWI partially). It is a national holiday.
guzmaekstroem that’s really cool, congrats on the 100 year anniversary of your countries independence! Similarly, the only good thing to come out of 1918 for us was our sovereignty from the Danes (not full independence but close) and that was also largely a result of the war.
Mexico the year that Mexican Revolution (which was basically a civil war), ended setting up the political party that ruled till 2000, a party known for killing students and disappearing reporters.
Edit: I was off on the date it officialy ended but pretty much the whole decade sucked.
“Be glad you live when you do” is STILL right. If we had this pandemic without modern medicine we’d be way more screwed.
You are so right! This is such an underrated comment.
Hope you're doing well and keeping safe during this time.
It seems more likely that this pandemic was caused by today's technology.
But still, I'm glad I live now and not then.
@@NeoN-PeoN caused? No. Helped make it more easily spreadable? Definitely
@@maineventmafia1633 what? You STILL think this virus evolved naturally from bats? Get real, dude. Jeez.
@@NeoN-PeoN never said anything about where it came from. I just said our current technology definitely didn’t help. Get real dude. Jeez.
You know damn well that within days of destroying the last smallpox samples, mediumpox will emerge and we'll be wishing we had some samples of smallpox to study.
And then largepox. And then hugepox. And then gigantopox. It never ends.
@@joescott then we get to the terrifying Megapox
Shut up, Meg.
We hoomanity destroys its last samples of small pox, it will be because they're confident they can engineer a more destructive, more selective plague.
With in most of your lifetimes. Congratulations!
and then GIGAPUDDI
"Be glad you live when you do"
2020: Here we go
Here we go... again?
Team rocket blasting off again
aged like milk
It could be worst, we could have pandemics and people denying the importance of medicine and vaccines and. Oh! Wait...
@@caz5800 Also a leader not taking it seriously and getting prepared while they had the chance.
Had malaria twice, and would not wish it on my worst enemy. It's one of those where you are scared that you will die and then you are scared that you will not die 🤣
The same for me. It's miserable lying there hot, then freezing, bones aching. Then the malaria meds kick in. Such relief!
@@2degucitas sounds exactly like opiate withdrawal! The biggest plague of them all is the plague of drugs.. for sure
@@winnieamictasol318 sounds horrible
Thanks for reminding the masses what they have to look forward to if they don't get their shit together! 😇
Jesus Christ how is the custody trial going
love that our lord Jesus watches this guy
While your here, what are next weeks power-ball numbers? I'll donate half the winnings!
Hey J-man, do me a solid and swing some famine my way. Been packing on the pounds since my last break-up and could use a hand.
Love your work.
Peace and shit.
Jesus whatcha your mouth! Lol
Smallpox and whooping cough killed all my kids in Oregon trail. I was in 6th grade and had no business being a parent anyways.
Huh? All I remember from the stupid Oregon Trail crap that I did in grade school was trading in pelts. I guess that's what they used as currency back in those days. At least that's what my teacher claimed anyways.
Thanksgiving and I will be there at all the time and I will be there at all the time and I will be there for it it's just the vhs was just thinking that bad the time but it will force myself and the other will you
😂😂😂
And I thought dysentery and explosive diarrhea was bad.
I thought it was *always* dysentery that killed people, even when they fell off a cliff
15:29 ohhhh so he’s the one who jinxed us for 2020
😂😂😂😂
Suddenly extremely relevant.
BALLS
No, these were REAL plagues.
@@chuckmaddox6725 Seriously?! SERIOUSLY??!?!?! 😒🤬😡🤯🙄😑 I am a nurse, and I gotta say, if you really believe coronavirus isn’t real, you are the worst type of person. People like you are the reason our country hasn’t been successful at controlling this virus. You are extremely lucky you haven’t been personally affected. I will shamelessly admit I’m judging you, but I still wouldn’t wish this virus on you or anyone in your family. Have fun with your extremely naïve “opinion,” which is really just complete and utter ignorance.
@@chuckmaddox6725 read a book
@@ASHl33164 a plague is a bacterial infection. They weren’t wrong. Coronavirus is a virus. I could be wrong cuz I just looked it up on google and the definition was bacterial infection.
My grandma caught that influenza strain back in 1918, when she was a little toddler in Brooklyn. She managed to survive by the skin of her teeth, grow up, raise hell, have a badass life, create my mother, and stride off into the unknowable ether in 2004 surrounded by her loving family.
All of us exist only because we still hang from threads threaded through the fickle fingers of the fist of fate. So let's try our best to be kind.
You have a wonderful, poetic use of language 😊👍
I feel like if I analyze that message and follow the clues i’d find hidden treasure. shakespeare ass comment
Beautiful, James. Thank you.
You forgot the honorable mention - polio. I'm too young to remember it, but apparently it was scary. My mom remembers her sister and her not being allowed to play outside because of the polio epidemic.
“Be glad you live when you do”
Well that didn’t age well 😂
Exactly what I came here to comment. 😂😭
The corona virus is nothing like the plagues mentioned in this video. Saying stuff like that just makes people unreasonably fearful. Better to be factual. If the death rate somehow increases several million times we can start talking...
^
That moment you think covid is the death of humanity.
@@user-lv6rn9cf8m stop downplaying the deaths! It's not a freaking contest. This is something that a lot of people have never dealt with. We have a right to think it's awful. Who cares iF thE WorLD hAs SeEN woRsE. This is the worse we have seen and it's all we know. Stop telling me what to think and feel.
After spending a couple weeks looking for something to binge watch, I seem to have struck gold with this channel. It's wonderful!
The song in the background is successfully making me jam throughout a roadmap of death
1918 not a great year, well that may actually be the greatest understatement i ever heard
I am the greatest understater of all time.
(even that was an understatement)
I have a better one:
Trump is a bad president.
I guess general relativity got reputation around same time :p
I never encountered mosquito in middle east. In my home country in asia its thousands in rural areas
BTW syphilis is alleged to have been brought to Europe from the Americas.
I'm sure that UA-cam suggested this video to me for no reason at all... O_O
Coronavirus
same
Same... freaky!
Yeah, Google's AI seems so good, it could write comments in your place... and an expert could have a hard time telling the Real-you and the AI-you apart ;-)
Lol me to i thought this a new video
I love you Joe. Lol. Completely addicted to your history-telling. Some new, some not. I like your editorializing too.
"People were fleeing New Jersey."
Nothing new
Fleeing from being taxed to death!
Thought it was just me
My first experience with New Jersey was watching the front of a dodge Durango burst into flames as soon as it crossed the border. Overall a pretty good day though.
And because of a swarm of illegal aliens, no less.
@@ericdew2021 😂
The YT algorithm knows what's up
Yeah
Me: *clicked on this video out of curiosity*
Also me: I wonder what the comments section is like.
Comments section: _Quarantine jokes_
Joe:talks about death
Music: *happy time*
*[Coronavirus has entered the chat]*
2021 edit: guys this is not a serious comment please and its literally from the beginning of the pandemic
Not a plague
@@walterhawkins1062 Planet Earth? Not a sphere
The Corona virus doesn't even come close to the death count or victims that suffered at the hands of all the plagues in this video
Harmless.
@@nobody9140 Yet. The US is working on it.
One of my favourite medical facts is that the final stage of AIDS is scientifically known as 'full-blown aids' as he says in the video. Still cracks me up even though it's a touchy subject. Also I wanted to add that Magic Johnson, one of the best basketball players of all time, was another person to normalize AIDS and get it the attention it deserves. I also live in Kwa-zulu Natal, the province in South Africa which has the highest AIDS percentage, around 17%, in the country with the most AIDS-affected people in the world. Our neighbouring country Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has a higher percentage at 27% although it has a far lower population.
Magic Johnson to me is proof there was a cure for AIDS in the early 90s but it was withheld from the population because of the cost and that at that time it was thought to only infect gays and drug needle sharers. Undesirables in the 1990s. There's no other way he should be alive today or should have lived at all past about 1994 if not for being a crazy rich celebrity that was given access to a cure that was withheld from millions of people. Our society it truly evil.
@@vicenzor3625 There is a temporary "Cure" called ARVs, Antiretroviral treatment. It doesn't cure the condition but it reduces the amount of HIV in your body and keeps you healthy. Problem is it's extremely expensive, which is even more fucked up because it exists but only the 0.1% could afford it when most sufferers are struggling to make it financially as it is
My best friend at the time contracted HIV in 2000. He's living a normal life today, works as a teacher, is married, travels, etc. Growing up in the 80s it was a death sentence and so taboo that it was only hush-hush talked about.
Just thought I'd ad that that as someone currently in their early 20's, who grew up well after the HIV breakout, our culture surrounding condom use is basically you use one by default.
If she's still there in the morning & you're spooning slip one in from behind and say 'it's cool, we know each other now'. Works for me!
And the reason it's at that default is.... Wait for it.... HIV.
@@christschinwon was this supposed to be a rape joke?
@UCW49svTT9b99qyZi_R34MtQ wtf really? No you imbecile he's doing her without a condom nothing to do with rape nor does it even sound like it does unless you want there to be.
@@fordshojoe8080 If a guy and I agreed that we only use condoms, and then he just shoves it in me raw without first asking if I'm comfortable with that, I'd feel pretty fucking violated. I didn't say he could do that. So yeah, definitely wrong, definitely outright rape if he kept going.
You forgot telemarketers. I hate telemarketers
I understand, but they are trying to make an honest living. Must be tough to have to fall back on that. I actually feel sorry for them, but I'm an old softy. But not so soft, I don't hang up on them. Because of them, I rarely answer my phone, and only respond to messages left by family and friends. My "cure" for that "plague".
Aaaannnnchovies...
It's actually a great job.
Getting payed to call people that's not even going to know why you called.
Stay safe Joe, love your videos brother. Hell everyone stay safe. I hope this passes sooner than later.
1918 was so bad and went on for so long that my great grandmother died from it, my great grandfather remarried, then he died of it and his new wife abandoned my grandfather and his uncle at an orphanage because there were no other blood relatives that could take them. They were all dead. That whole side of the family was wiped away except for two little kids.
Radio, it's UA-cam when you put your phone down to go to sleep but still want to listen.
More ads on this shit
I’m glad to be living through multiple historic events.
This is why I have a dental cleaning every 6 months. To scrape off the plague from my teeth.
Gingivitis was the 6th on the list.
LoL
That is a dad joke.
qte joke
I see what you _dead_ there ☣
Thank you UA-cam for dropping this into my suggested videos right when a national emergency was declared for the COVID-19. Hearing how millions of people died from other uncontainable diseases really calmed me down. 😐😑😶
Just preparing us for what is coming!
And you chose to click on it and comment? Very smart response when you're worried about the video content
Lol, the simpler times....when pandemics were interesting historical discussions 😖😖
"And then after a few days you die, hence the word death" Ok I laughed more than what I should have with that
You have a very simple humour.
When Mother Nature says: ''Time for a pruning.''
Yeh and in fall the most people die so Mother Nature is a tree
Someone should really tell Mother Nature this isn’t how spring cleaning is done.
Or "Time to take out the garbage."
2020 handed mother nature the pruning shears...
Reading this comment now and how right you were.
Crazy to think we are living through something that will go down in history as one of these!
Right lol
History is more likely going to examine the mass hysteria aspect of the Coronavirus pandemic; all the crazy societal changes it triggered.
@@ernestsmith3581 500,00 dead is close to the 675,000 dead in america in 1918
Compare to a percentage of population, and it's nowhere as bad. Now also consider that 100,000 people died in 2021 in America from drug overdose, and you can see that we have other epidemics that need attention @@nosuchthing8
@Joshua Tootell a million people died from covid already in America alone.
And unlike most of these other issues, like cancer or drug overdoses, you CAN catch covid from someone that's standing in line at the grocery store.
The average life span has declined, and the death rate has jumped up.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Joe:vaccines completely eradicated smallpox
Antivax people: I’m about to end this whole mans career
If those antivax people even try to fight me I wont throw punches, I would just cough and sneeze in front of them.
they don’t vaccinate for smallpox anymore anyway... lol
@@shayshowyipee because its eradicated
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Sickle cell is the homogenous trait. While protective, the problems outweigh the benefits.
Being heterozygous for the trait, however, is less overall detrimental and just about as protective.
Darleen Jewell Eradicated, means it’s gone? Right 🤔 because all my kids got chicken pox’s, including myself ✌️
This video is gonna have to be remade after covid19 is over
Who said it will ever be over
Selen Garett Don’t.
(It’ll need to be a sidebar about how the media fear mongered the world economy into the ground)
It wont have to be remade. Covid-19 only spreads fast, its nowhere near potent enough to be even nominated for this list. If it truly was that deadly or dangerous to be on this list, we would live in an apocalypse atm. We dont.
Covids nothing compared to these wym
The expression "mind your own beeswax". That expression came from antebellum time. On southern plantations, the expression could be heard among the ladies. Small Pox was active in antebellum time and the survivors were left with circular scars. These scars were not acceptable to the plantation ladies. What they would do is fill the scars with beeswax and cover it up with makeup. Hense "Mind your own beeswax"
Joe Taylor
Tour Guide New Orleans, La. French Quarter
That is likely folk etymology.
Coronavirus: _let me introduce myself_
Nothingburger
Not a plague, plague is bacteria. We have a virus
@@tuxedosteve9556 pls stop saying that everywhere lol
Aliens: We are to speak with your leaders, we are here to study your war like culture.
U.N. Spokesperson: That's great, by the way we have these great hand crafted blankets to give as a gift. Thanks for stopping by.
Europeans sigh, still at it. lol
Oh. Oh no.
@@emperor002002 it worked before, why not keep doing it /s
@@jamesknapp64 🤔 point taken. Ah Haaa 🤷🏿♂️
Corona
There is a really amazing novel about someone trying to weaponize that "sledge hammer small pox". It's definitely one of my top 5 reads. Its called "I am Pilgrim". It actually switches perspective between the 2 lead characters back and forth. One is the creator of the weapon and the other is a US black ops agent who is tasked with tracking him. Code name: Pilgrim. It really gives you perspective from both sides. Super highly recommend it. It has some good science it in and lots of cool spy stuff.
U said why would an advanced species land on a planet that mostly water when thats there weakness. Hmm. My thought was why are we trying to go to space when no oxygen is our weakness. Makes one think. But I do agree with u that some1 would think that martians would at least be prepared for it. Like we wear space suits in preparation for no oxygen.
Great show Joe
Its called suspension of disbelief. If you overthink the details in every movie, you won't enjoy them.
But we don't go into space NAKED! Those aliens in Signs weren't even using a loincloth.
Or maybe they'd never come in contact with water before. Like just knew it was a liquid but never had come in contact with it on such a large scale.
@@missyk2454 But it's one of the most abundant materials there is.
Dreaming Dreamer it’s lazy writing
Apparently the War of the worlds ’panic’ never actually happened. The broadcast wasn’t that popular. It was later made up as a PR stunt to advertise the show. The ’panic’ is one of those things that isn’t true, despite everyone knowing it is.
Mandela Effect?
The idea that Welles created a panic among listeners who thought there was a real invasion is unsupported by facts. The newspapers stories about this 'panic' were an attempt to discredit radio as a source of 'real' news. Makes we wonder about how well the rest of the video is researched.
www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/
Swinging the pendulum all the way back in the other direction with this silly conspiracy tale that it was the newspapers conspiring against radio isn't going to restore balance. It couldn't have been an advertising stunt either because it was a live broadcast that had already occurred. It's just the mirror image of the same nonsense you two are supposedly trying to debunk.
Some people did freak out, but very few. This was a commercial radio broadcast and they took station breaks and announced that this was a dramatic program. But it wasn't a massive audience, it was about 2% of the listeners in that hour according to ratings agencies. There were other radio networks besides CBS with more popular programs.
My grandpa was a teenager at the time, and he did listen to the broadcast. I asked him if he was scared by it, and he said no that he was a regular listener to the show, which was an anthology, and he recognized Orson Wells's voice. He had also read War of the Worlds so that he also recognized the story as a story. He had never heard of the panic until much later. He thought the whole panic was a publicity stunt.
How did the story of panicked listeners begin? Blame America’s newspapers. Radio had siphoned off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. So the papers seized the opportunity presented by Welles’ program to discredit radio as a source of news. The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted. In an editorial titled “Terror by Radio,” the New York Times reproached “radio officials” for approving the interweaving of “blood-curdling fiction” with news flashes “offered in exactly the manner that real news would have been given.” Warned Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry’s trade journal, “The nation as a whole continues to face the danger of incomplete, misunderstood news over a medium which has yet to prove ... that it is competent to perform the news job.”
www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html
Thank you for correcting people about "decimate" there are plenty of other words to express annihilation
The anti-vaxers gonna hate this.
@Benu_Bird I was born in 64" last century I wonder if I should, ask my Dr. about such things? Curious though
@Benu_Bird weird how people with the measles vaccination still get it.... Hmmmmm.
@@dontliveinsin You're right. It only protects 97% of people who get it. It's totally useless. 🙄
Hush, lol.
@@dontliveinsin because the vaccine isn't 100% effective. about 3% of people that get the vaccine get measles later in their lives
16:18 "BE GLAD YOU LIVE WHEN YOU DO PEOPLE!"
Thx Joe for another great video and doing all the work to compile it.
Anyone here after the outbreak of coronavirus? 😣
Yep!
We should all be. Very concerned.
@@skullduggery1096 Laowhy86 on UA-cam put out an hour long video talking about how the Chinese government does not have it under control. Listen especially at 46 minutes to what they literally say just matter of factually. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has moved portable crematories with tons per day of capacity into the Wuhan area. Now that is scary.
ua-cam.com/video/TOHIhshyWE4/v-deo.html
Yep, popped up on my feed
@Michael Jones Wrong on many levels. First different family of virus so it is not literally the flu. Second the case mortality rate is 3.4%, just announced by the WHO. This makes it 34 times more deadly than the average flu. It is far more infectious. If it is just a bad flu why has China been shut down? The Chinese government is not behaving like it is just a flu.
By the end of the year the death toll will be in the millions. But given its exponential growth in a month, 2 at the most it will be obvious to everyone how bad this is.
"1918 .... not a great year." I love his interlude commentary. :-D
Fun fact, my mother's friend at school (late 1950s) survived the bubonic plague. She lived in an old Tudor house made with wattle and daub which had been bulked out with horse hair. When they were having some building work done, she wasn't given a mask, and breathed in the dust - that horse hair still had plague microbes on it from many centuries past and she nearly died. She's thankfully now happily retired with grandchildren, but yersinia pestis sure tried its best to change that timeline.
Oh I exist because of the Spanish flu! Killed my great grandfather's family, so he got remarried to my great grandmother and so on.
Same story only I'm here because of dysentery.
@@RELO6 wow never thought about that before, if alcoholism didn't exist, neither would I,
On the other side I suspect alcohol contributed to quite a few pregnancys.
That's really sad and hopeful at the same time. If that makes any sense. I feel for your gggrandfather though .... He must have lived in constant fear for his second family.
Chaos theory bro.
Well....antivaxxers are only here because their moms wouldn't swallow, so go figure.
Who here during coronavirus outbreak
.06% of the world did with. .02% died of Covid. ........ sooo ya,
"Be glad you live when you do."
*Laughs in 2020*
Fascinating. My Great Grandmother died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. My Nan was only 3!Its both interesting and sad for this to be given some context. xxx
Am I the only one that got this in my recommendation after the nCov breakout ??
#metoo
Watching this video 2 years later in 2021. For real be glad you live when you do.
Thank you, youtube recommendations, for recommending this to me during the corona virus outbreak.
Awesome video! This reminds me of the last scene of the movie 'War of the Worlds', when the narrator says that the smallest organisms on Earth killed the aliens
"War of the Worlds" and the Orson Welles broadcast were the same H.G.Wells story updated to the time that they were created as a radio play and then a feature movie. While I wasn't born in time for the broadcast drama, I did see the movie in a theater when it was first released. My family had a radio for many years before television was common enough for us to own one. We listened to radio plays where our imagination created the settings much better than TV dramas of the 1950's could do, and like many of those, they were done in real time.
I got very mad about that ending when I first saw the movie because it says God created the microbes and I seriously doubt Wells believed in God.
Then I went back and read the book and that’s exactly how he worded it in the book. Oops.
I think the craziest thing to me is that all of us watching this video right now are incredibly lucky to be here. Our bloodline didn’t end due to one of these pandemics wiping our ancestors out
anyone recommended this while in quarantine for covid-19???
"The highways out of New Jersey were completely jammed up with people trying to escape"
That's normal.
James Blackburn this is true. You know it’s a normal day in New Jersey when the highways are jammed up
As opposed to broken heroes on a last-chance power drive.
Yes, please do a show about Bubonic Plague in Europe Joe. The impact of it, the fear it caused, the emptying of the fields, the rise of Italian city states, and its relationship to agriculture, industry and science is relatively unknown, but profound. Perhaps its history may speak to the predicament we're in now.
I thought the war of the world's panic was a myth. I remember reading an article that very few people actually even listened to the broadcast. I could be misremembering though.
It probably wasn't as bad as the stories have said over the years.
It is a myth. I listened to the orininal show - it was not long yet coveted months of time.
You are correct. It wasn’t a big deal. I gotta be honest I was bored with this video and almost gave up until Joe blew my mind with “decimate”. It will now be my pet peeve. Thank you Joe.
Yea, it was hyped up to sell newspapers.
In Samoa this week, 39 children got red measles. 35 of them died. I am immunodeficient and can get almost every viral or bacterial infection. I hate hearing about people not vaccinating their kids. I got red measles when I was 17 and got very very sick. Should have been in the hospital with a 105 degree fever, but there was nowhere to put me into isolation.
In 92 my uncle was the soul survivor of a head on collision car accident, he was asleep in the back of a Van so his brain didn’t register the accident and his body being relaxed played a big part .
He had massive internal bleeding though and needed a transfusion , which he unfortunately contracted AIDS from
😞
It was really hard watching him deteriorate. He eventually passed from a lung infection at 34 years old
'And then you Die....... hence the word Death' your awesome Joe, truly. Informative video mate, loved it! Please do more Tangent Cam! Also well shaped and trimed beard mate, looks realy good! Take care Joe :)
Maleria killed half of all humans that ever lived?! I'm a survivor!! Feeling lucky
Have you ever suffered from malaria?😅
(I have!)
@grumpy old fart It's so bad how someone feels as he suffers from malaria, really annoying!😅😅
I live in a small town and we've just had 40+ cases in the last month, including my son !
Watching this in 2021 is definitely intersting.
You shouldn't generalize yersinia pestis as only bubonic plague, pneumonic and septicemic plague were just as prevalent during those outbreaks.
He referred to the protozoan that causes malaria as a "bacteria".
Generalizing the Black Death is the least of his sins.
15:11 actually you got it right. Vacca IS STILL italian for Cow, albeit it's a slightly less used - and more vernacular - synonym of the main word for Cow, which is Mucca. Of course it was also the same term in Latin, but in every contemporary italian vocabulary you will find Vacca as well.
You forgot to mention the variant of Small Pox that cause your skin to slough off your body in sheets. Like a reptile shedding but there's no new skin underneath.
"Who is this gardner" LMAO xD
As a fun note, Yersinia Pestis is still present in rodents in several places in the world. Some you wouldn't expect. At the Grand Canyon there are signs warning that the local squirrel population carries it. Which is particularly problematic because that species of squirrel is very gregarious and is not afraid to approach and even climb on park visitors with regularity. And yeah, I know it's not the rodents, but the fleas that are the problem. But that's one tick closer than I want to get to the plague, thankyouverymuch.
It's also endemic in prairie dogs. I think they're very cute but I am OK with not touching them ever.
THERE is a small town in the UK that seems to have been immune to the plague. the people in that town also seem to be immune to AIDS. Saw a show about this a few years ago. do a show on this please.
"1918, not a great year"-Joe Scott
Lol that comeback in the beginning, much in the same way the recommendations are coming back with Coronavirus now.
This channel is so underrated
Interesting video on the Spanish Flu from the folks at Extra Credit - Extra History here on the tubes if anyone wants to check out a cool 4 or 5 part animated series.
Ooh, they've got a great channel!
@@joescott yeah, they're always fascinating and well done. Which is not to imply you don't also rule the school.
Their series on Justinian covered that plague in a fair bit of detail, too. Which makes sense considering it was one of those events that literally changed the direction of history.
Oh WOW just checked out the channel and the vid I'm hooked thanks for this recommendation, love this kind of stuff!
Holy crap, just found this again. So fitting after we’ve been locked up for a year!
Best, most accurate, explanation of hiv i have seen in a long time
People with HIV:
Bacteria: “it’s free real estate”
“Hence the word death” makes me laugh every time.
I love your description of what radio is
Should have more subscribers
I'm working on it!
We can all see that because of your hard work and creativity. Keep it up!
Joe Scott you'll get it joe! I'm sure of it!!
Why is UA-cam recommending me this... Oh no...
That's what we all wanna know! 🙄🙄
This man kills it with the hooks/introductions for the videos
More like: "Be glad you lived when you did."
So I'm sitting here, two days after Christmas 2019, having had an organ transplant a few years ago and I have a cold....or do I?
I hope you are ok now, in March.
Idk... do you?
It looks like this person who wrote the original post posted elsewhere on this channel 4 months ago, so that's great!
Feb 2021. Still alive.
You forgot about measles, especially for the impact on native populations in North and South america. Measles is effing terrifying, especially when you consider SSPE
Let’s goooo another great video before work :)
1:02 - he says "That's always 'bugged' me..." HEY-O!
Signs literally made me so annoyed
The music is making me happy.
The sped-up drum beat in the music around the 5:50 mark is really distracting.
Was looking for this comment, it was so off beat, i thought it was some kind of audio glitch
Covid-19: "Hold my White Claw."
White Claw is so disgusting
Thank you for the decimated note. I too, am bothered when people goof that up
So you mentioned mosquitoes...
Is there any animals that could go extinct without ruining the ecosystem?
Yes. Mosquitoes. End the f***ers.
Or we could go the more targeted routes of specifically eliminating the particular species of mosquito that carries malaria while simultaneously introducing other species of mosquito which don't carry the disease into those ecosystems (so that role is still being filled and we don't wind up unintentionally killing other species) _or_ even targeting the organism that the mosquitoes are carrying in the first place.
Joe Scott thanks for the science dude
Erik Dumas that sounds like effort though. I'm a fan of the scientific method of just killing all the mosquitoes
Pandas. They’re so picky about their bamboo that it’s almost like they WANT to go extinct.
My grandfather actually contracted malaria while serving as a Marine in the Pacific during World War II.
Him and a LOT of other people.
My dad in Korea.
I’ve known a few people who had it, both here in the US, and in South America. The thing is, malaria is so old that there are mutations, like sickle cell, that provide resistance if not immunity to this.
This feels really relevant right now!
the 6 worst plagues in human history