I think you got some your dates wrong as you mentioned multiple times in your images (not verbally) that the second pandemic happened in 1932 instead of 1832. Can you correct this if I’m right as it is VERY confusing for someone watching...
I got a double whammy of cholera and typhoid in India in 1992. Nearly killed me! 3 weeks in hospital with A drip in each arm. Lost half my body weight, in an afternoon! I’m 193 cm and I only weighed 52 kilos after the disease had run its course. I got it from eating some seafood…. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! Edit: I can attest to the projectile vomiting and diarrhoea lol. I can only describe as suddenly realising that humans are basically just a bag of water and that the hand of an invisible giant is violently squeezing it out of you.
Man..Im glad you survived all that. You must have been really healthy before. I know its not the same but in less than 3 years Ive been in septic shock twice.. both from kidney infection. The last time was in January and was in a coma for a week. Woke missing half a kidney. I was already thin then I lost muscle mass as well. After you live through an illness like that.. i don't know if you fully recover. This past Monday I was cleared to drive and have sex again. Still in physical therapist but I am slowly making progress. I pray you continue to improve with your health. Hope all is well 😁
@@jrmckim dude, that sounds awful I’m glad to hear you’re allowed to have sex and also drive again. So that would be….. sexdrive! Bravo mate and thanks for your kind words…
One problem for cholera victims was that doctors tried treating the symptoms incorrectly; since the patient was expelling large amounts of fluid, it was believed the patient had too much water in their body, so the treatment was to withhold water.
An interresting part of John Snows work is that he researched the Broad Street area in a very didactic way. For example: there was a workhouse in the Broad Street area of which the residents hardly ever got sick. Snow wondered how this could be and soon found out that the workhouse had its own well, thus not exposing the inhabitants to the contaminated water. The same could be said for a nearby brewery where the 70 employees were allowed to drink as much beer as they wanted. Also a little fun fact; nowadays there is a pub on Broad Street called John Snow Pub to commemorate him. The 'original pump' is also still there but had to be replaced a couple meters off because of safety regulations or something.
I read a very interesting book on Snow and the Broad St. Pump a few years ago. I can't recall the title at present, but I know I found it very informative - both in the subject matter itself, and in the medical profession's initial reactions.
The thing about the Great Stink that always gets me is that these conditions had been prevalent in the poorer parts of London for decades at least, and Parliament had done absolutely nothing about it. But as soon as it affected THEM, it's suddenly a very different matter ... edit: idiot typo
OMG the analogies are killing me, "Like a blind man in an orgy, they were left groping in the dark.". I had to double check and make sure this wasn't Business Blaze. LMAO. Keep up the great work! Love it! :D
I remember doing a family history assignment in primary school and considering we only have 4 generations in the last 100 years we got back pretty quickly to the "so and so had 9 children 2 died of cholera 1 of Tb and so many died of typhoid etc etc in the end only 3 survived" 😬 crazy how many didn't make it, I definitely think we take that for granted today.
Similar. My grandma had 6 siblings, 4 of them died (in 1930s and 1940s) from tb and polio before they were 3 years old. Twins died when they were like 5 months old.
If people in countries such as India and the US keep being so irresponsible with antibiotics it's only a matter of time until bacterial diseases we considered a thing of the past become large scale killers again. And it doesn't exactly help that the wolves that are the pharmaceutical companies only care for maximum profits, antibiotics are generally only taken for 2 weeks or so and hence not considered profitable enough for them in comparison to antidepressants, cancer medicine and other drugs you generally take for years. Because as a result of that there is pretty much zero research being done towards the development of new antibiotics, almost all the currently existing antibiotics are from the 50's and 60's.
I was born in Argentina, and I remember at some point in the 90s, an outbreak of cholera at least in Argentina, south of Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile... It was awful, we studied it in school, talked about prevention, little jingles on TV and the radio... Lots of people died, among the poorest.
I can’t believe it’s a 190 years later and nothing has changed in terms of human behaviour! “The more things change, the more they stay the same” 🤦🏻♀️
To be fair, over half of Americans were willing to get vaccinated with new vaccines. But… yeah, really hope we at least figured out to stockpile PPE… because the next pandemic is coming, we just can’t be sure what it will be…
You should also do a show on Pellagra, which doctors got entirely wrong -- it wasn't a disease, it was a dietary deficiency among the poor of the US South. And it took a pioneering doctor to prove them wrong.
Honestly you could do a whole channel of biography of diseases. There’s over 40 genuses in the Enterobacteriaceae family, many of whom cause disease, some severe.
@@jonathandempsey9228 duh how else r we gonna wrap up like a mummy when u well uk go to forever sleep. But hell it being cholera I u might actually need it when ur literally shitting ur brains out
The saddest thing is the fact he literally had to point out multiple things and every single time he was ignored because he was just one expert amongst a 1000 who disagreed The amount of "yeah, you did that, and people stopped dying, but that could have been a coincidence" is astounding.
I contracted cholora from drinking water from a tap at the bottom of a hiking trail. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I’d spent three days on a toilet before I went to a hospital. Thought I’d just eaten something. The water was eventually tested after there was a few dozen cases reported and that’s what we had in common. Turns out the beady thing toilets septic tank was cracked and so was the water taps line…..
Interestingly, Jon Snow was said to have taken action into his own hands and physically removed the handle of the Broadstreet pump, preventing further deaths. The waters of the Broadstreet pump were supposed to be special and it was known to 'sparkle'. When he looked at the addresses of who got sick he found there were several house from richer suburbs that were well away from the pump. Turned out that rich people would send their servants to fetch water from the pump because of this sparkling specialness, but if you let the water stand for a few days it would start to smell! The sparkle came from fecal contamination from nearby cesspits and privies leaking into the well water, causing bubbles to form as the bacteria consumed the fecal matter. Gem theory and the idea there were 'tiny monsters' in the water was pooh poohed (tee hee hee) and ridiculed which is when he removed the pump handle.
I saw a documentary once on the BBC "A doctor in the 19th century thought cholera, was in the water supply so he took the 'handle', off the local water pump, and in that area it cleared up". I think Alan Titmarsh, did the voice over?
A fact that might be interesting is that due to how affected Mexico was by cholera in the mid 1900's our social security system implemented giving oral solution for free to anyone that would have a visit to the doctor for any reason and especially if it involved children, as a result (and aiding to the fact that we often get heatwaves) we have developed a habit of sorts of drinking oral solution instead of just water or sports drinks during the warmer months, we even have several brands a awide variety of flavors that you can buy for cheap at any pharmacy or chain corner store
NGL, whoever found that clip of the hose clearing is the real MVP here. xD What a perfect demonstration of the concept without actually showing it, heh.
There was cholera outbreaks in Papua New Guinea, during the few years that we lived there from 2008. Flash floods would destroy villages and contaminate water sources and crops. A lot of preventable diseases exist in these countries which are rich in resources but due to corruption the general population is dirt poor, which is why I always associate the anti vax mentality as a sign of privilege ....amongst other things 😉
Yeah. Even with non COVID vaccines, seeing priveledged American parents refuse vaccines for their kids that parents accross the world would kill for access to is truly surreal
3:30 - Chapter 1 - The blue death 6:40 - Chapter 2 - The drowned world 10:25 - Chapter 3 - The other pandemic 14:35 - Chapter 4 - A court for the king cholera 17:35 - Chapter 5 - The father of epidemiology 21:40 - Chapter 6 - The poor man's disease
Cholera is one of the worst things I've ever experienced. I got it in 2017 and then another disease after and my stomach has never been the same. Genuinely wouldn't wish it on anyone.
@@owenshebbeare2999 I got it in Algeria, had no idea what it was and got treatment when I travelled to Egypt the next day. Luckily I was in Egypt and had access to proper medicine before it got too bad
Love In The Time Of Cholera is such a poetic read, kudos for the reference!! The past was so much worse. It is a shame that any country is stuck in the past, just barely surviving.
As the title is a reference to a book of Gabriel Garcia Marquez named Love in the time of Cholera, I request you to make a video on the celebrated author too.
One of your better written episodes, narration-wise. Found myself impressed with the word play on this one. Not sure if it was scripted, or all Simon, but kudos either way.
Often they happen in region afflicted by wars, as a result of the failed healthcare and infrastructure. it's easier said than done to fix that in the middle of an ongoing military conflict...
My father caught Vibrio from shellfish. He had a whopping case of Vibriosis. There were liquids coming from both ends, each one forcing the other out the opposing. He was creating spin-art ... in the bathroom
I had something - in a Caribbean country about 7 years ago... I was very sick and they don't have good running water there... but they wash their vegetables and cook with bad tap water.. Sometimes they make ice with it. God intervened... a bottle of 7-up probably saved my life.
In my US town about 7 years ago a neighborhood had to be hooked up to city water and sewer. The people were pissed, but the city responded with: A) this should have been done years ago and B) your pipes are all rusted You can't always fix stupid, but sometimes laws help prevent it in future generations.
Some years ago I saw an exhibition of important historical maps, and Snow's original map was part of that exhibit. It was nice to see something that was so important to us all.
Knowing enough about my family history that I am aware my GG grandfather’s sister died in the cholera epidemic in NY, 1832. Now I really understand the context. Thanks Simon and team.
In Swedish we have an expression: "Det är som att välja mellan pest och kolera!" which means "It's like choosing between the plague and cholera". I still don't see that as fair to the later one, since the plague is/was much deadlier. Still, cholera is a really awful disease. Wouldn't want to get it - I've gotten so many stomach flus throughout the years, so I can just imagine how truly awful it would be to get this disease.
@@Elora445 I did some digging german news magazine Spiegel attributes it to Pierre Poujade, a french politician who made a statement regarding having to choose between "plague and cholera" but that was in 1965? So rather european maybe?
There's this excerpt from a book on the history of the fishing village my mom's side of the family comes from that I'd like to share: It's told of two young people from Råå who visited Malmö at the time during which the epidemic was at its worst. One of the two young men was careless enough, or rather unwise enough, to visit an acquainted family that had been afflicted by the ailment. At the time he showed up, one family member had even passed away. This didn't deter the youngling however, who stayed at the farm for a couple of hours and didn't even think twice about touching the corpse. When he later returned to Råå, he bragged heavily about his courage and declared "I am living proof that cholera is not communicable". The following day he was the first person in Råå to fall ill and the day following that, he died.
Thanks for including your sources. I don't know if you always have on this channel, but in the past I've looked for them and couldn't find them (possibly on other channels).
Just exactly how many comments are needed on the error made with 1832/1932? People should read comments before making what they believe to be an original comment. Great video Team Biographics👋🍻
I fear the Indigenous communities of Canada will be hit with cholera if the govt doesn’t prioritize giving them clean drinking water. Like Simon said, there is no good reason for cholera outbreaks to occur in this day and age. Great video. Well done everyone 👏
Its an issue for the southern tribes too. Its the 21st century, and our peoples are still being treated pretty much the same as in the 19th. Now the white man eases his conscious with "at least they have casinos", which creates another epidemic. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been talking about Native issues, and some idiot pops up with that, or "its their own fault"...
I would love for you to do a video on Nestor Mankho as he is one of the most intresting players in the Russian civil war. Most people don't know about him because he was an anarchist who lost the war obviously but his anarchist military state is one of the few places in history where anarchism was adopted for a brief period of time. Also the area where his group formed is now where Ukraine is fighting separatists movement.
Aw damn, Simon has a fidge goblin, too? Same... I make sure he's not in there when I close it but sometimes I'll close it fast then open it again for something else and my dumb guys in there, trying to access the veggies.
I'd love to try athletics green, have heard many good things about it. But sadly they don't ship to Svalbard or Norway, due to Norways weird import laws for food supplements
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Whoever started editing these videos now, they are on their meme game and it's amazing! :D keep it up!
@@JonManProductions I love it.
Soylent green.
I think you got some your dates wrong as you mentioned multiple times in your images (not verbally) that the second pandemic happened in 1932 instead of 1832. Can you correct this if I’m right as it is VERY confusing for someone watching...
Squat: What a homeless person calls the place they sleep.
Yoooo I’m dying Simon really said “like a blind man in an orgy, humanity was groping in the dark” 😂😂😂
His delivery was priceless
@@gensaikawakami341 very true, I literally had to rewind the video I was like did he really say that 😂
That line had me screaming 🤣🤣🤣
Had to rewind it just to make sure that wasn’t Mary and Jane talkin 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Quote of the day!
I got a double whammy of cholera and typhoid in India in 1992. Nearly killed me! 3 weeks in hospital with A drip in each arm. Lost half my body weight, in an afternoon! I’m 193 cm and I only weighed 52 kilos after the disease had run its course. I got it from eating some seafood…. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy!
Edit: I can attest to the projectile vomiting and diarrhoea lol. I can only describe as suddenly realising that humans are basically just a bag of water and that the hand of an invisible giant is violently squeezing it out of you.
Great to hear you made a full recovery back then
@@Pfannenschwenker. tbh mate I never really made a full recovery…
@@planetdisco4821 don't think anyone can fully recover from that. I had cryptosporidium a few months ago it felt like the world fell out my ass.
Man..Im glad you survived all that. You must have been really healthy before. I know its not the same but in less than 3 years Ive been in septic shock twice.. both from kidney infection. The last time was in January and was in a coma for a week. Woke missing half a kidney. I was already thin then I lost muscle mass as well. After you live through an illness like that.. i don't know if you fully recover.
This past Monday I was cleared to drive and have sex again. Still in physical therapist but I am slowly making progress.
I pray you continue to improve with your health. Hope all is well 😁
@@jrmckim dude, that sounds awful I’m glad to hear you’re allowed to have sex and also drive again. So that would be….. sexdrive! Bravo mate and thanks for your kind words…
One problem for cholera victims was that doctors tried treating the symptoms incorrectly; since the patient was expelling large amounts of fluid, it was believed the patient had too much water in their body, so the treatment was to withhold water.
Oh… oh, dear… 🫠
Well, it WOULD stop the diarrhea
Simon on Biographics:
"I like to eat right and take care of myself."
Simon on Brain Blaze:
"COCAINE IS GREAT!"
Allegedly.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
AM I RIGHT, PETER?!
Badda bum bum tsssssss
I was wondering if he was talking about the same powder too
An interresting part of John Snows work is that he researched the Broad Street area in a very didactic way. For example: there was a workhouse in the Broad Street area of which the residents hardly ever got sick. Snow wondered how this could be and soon found out that the workhouse had its own well, thus not exposing the inhabitants to the contaminated water. The same could be said for a nearby brewery where the 70 employees were allowed to drink as much beer as they wanted. Also a little fun fact; nowadays there is a pub on Broad Street called John Snow Pub to commemorate him. The 'original pump' is also still there but had to be replaced a couple meters off because of safety regulations or something.
I read a very interesting book on Snow and the Broad St. Pump a few years ago. I can't recall the title at present, but I know I found it very informative - both in the subject matter itself, and in the medical profession's initial reactions.
he was also the sword in the dark........ sorry couldn't resist a got pun
Yeah, but after all the interesting stuff he diddled his aunt and things really went downhill.
@@chalky3320 I'm right there with ya, buddy
@@jonsnowight9510 you could say the walls came tumbling down around him.....
The thing about the Great Stink that always gets me is that these conditions had been prevalent in the poorer parts of London for decades at least, and Parliament had done absolutely nothing about it. But as soon as it affected THEM, it's suddenly a very different matter ...
edit: idiot typo
Reminds me of... current events
@@mattze9536 - I hadn't thought of that! But you're right, of course - what happens to "them" isn't nearly as important as what happens to "us".
I am kinda relieve about the fact that back then people although proclaimed its all fake... so its not a New Thing... people are just louder
@@mattze9536 - I missed the connection with Pandemic Deniers. durr.
lol pooper parts
OMG the analogies are killing me, "Like a blind man in an orgy, they were left groping in the dark.". I had to double check and make sure this wasn't Business Blaze. LMAO. Keep up the great work! Love it! :D
Come on Simon, you can definitely start a fitness channel: Buff Blaze
Only if we get a video of him crashing his mountain bike.
Megabuff?
Musclegraphics
"Today I worked out"
Fact boi does fitness?
Funfact: John Snow is buried in Brompton Cemetary near West Brompton tube station in London and his grave is a Pokestop in Pokemon go.
The fact that most stops were picked by the player base makes this extra funny.
catch pikachu, not cholera!
I had a "mild" run in with Cholera on my first deployment. the way it just evacuates you like a bilge pump every few minutes just
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Run? - Is that a pun?
"One of my morning coffees". That one sentence is so telling, Simon 😂
As long as it doesn’t replace his morning cocaine. Allegedly.
I remember doing a family history assignment in primary school and considering we only have 4 generations in the last 100 years we got back pretty quickly to the "so and so had 9 children 2 died of cholera 1 of Tb and so many died of typhoid etc etc in the end only 3 survived" 😬
crazy how many didn't make it, I definitely think we take that for granted today.
Similar. My grandma had 6 siblings, 4 of them died (in 1930s and 1940s) from tb and polio before they were 3 years old. Twins died when they were like 5 months old.
If people in countries such as India and the US keep being so irresponsible with antibiotics it's only a matter of time until bacterial diseases we considered a thing of the past become large scale killers again. And it doesn't exactly help that the wolves that are the pharmaceutical companies only care for maximum profits, antibiotics are generally only taken for 2 weeks or so and hence not considered profitable enough for them in comparison to antidepressants, cancer medicine and other drugs you generally take for years. Because as a result of that there is pretty much zero research being done towards the development of new antibiotics, almost all the currently existing antibiotics are from the 50's and 60's.
@@pieterveenders9793the 50s and 60s probably being the last time the balance between saving lives and profits was in slightly more in our favour 😅
Seeing the dates go from 1832-1932 and back on the text, I felt like I was losing my mind
You are not alone.
Same, I assumed it was his mistake
Happens in quite a few Biographics videos hahah
@@WhatMinimap Me too! Glad I'm not the only one:)
I been looking for a comment about this cause I wanted to be sure I wasn't the only one who caught that lil typo lol
I was born in Argentina, and I remember at some point in the 90s, an outbreak of cholera at least in Argentina, south of Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile... It was awful, we studied it in school, talked about prevention, little jingles on TV and the radio... Lots of people died, among the poorest.
Yep. I'm from Brazil, born in 78, and I still remember during the 80's and 90's massive national campaigns for the prevention of cholera.
Im from Peru and the same .. during the 90s a lot of cholera talks
I can’t believe it’s a 190 years later and nothing has changed in terms of human behaviour!
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” 🤦🏻♀️
The internet has changed human behavior. So not really true.
@@garretth8224 Which only means that the idiocy is spread more quickly, it is still idiocy, however.
@@charleslindsey6789 2023: maybe it wasn't such idiocy.
@@sanniepstein4835 Huh?
To be fair, over half of Americans were willing to get vaccinated with new vaccines. But… yeah, really hope we at least figured out to stockpile PPE… because the next pandemic is coming, we just can’t be sure what it will be…
You should also do a show on Pellagra, which doctors got entirely wrong -- it wasn't a disease, it was a dietary deficiency among the poor of the US South. And it took a pioneering doctor to prove them wrong.
Honestly you could do a whole channel of biography of diseases. There’s over 40 genuses in the Enterobacteriaceae family, many of whom cause disease, some severe.
The problem is, most have very similar symptoms. It would get very repetitive.
“Like a blind man at an orgy, groping in the dark” That line, truly the best!
Looking at how people responded to corona, I'm pretty sure they'd be the same way with cholera.
They would do the same if it was a confirmed bioweapon
Nothing
"Just let it sweep over you"
Mah body, mah choice
Does it require us to buy toilet paper in large quantities?
My intestines, My choice
@@jonathandempsey9228 duh how else r we gonna wrap up like a mummy when u well uk go to forever sleep.
But hell it being cholera I u might actually need it when ur literally shitting ur brains out
British Medical Authorities: You know nothing, John Snow.
[John Snow knew quite a lot, actually]
The saddest thing is the fact he literally had to point out multiple things and every single time he was ignored because he was just one expert amongst a 1000 who disagreed
The amount of "yeah, you did that, and people stopped dying, but that could have been a coincidence" is astounding.
I haven't heard the "blind man in an orgy" analogy in so many years! Good on you!
No amount of description of diarrhea and vomiting can compare to actually seeing a cholera patient go through one.
I contracted cholora from drinking water from a tap at the bottom of a hiking trail. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I’d spent three days on a toilet before I went to a hospital. Thought I’d just eaten something. The water was eventually tested after there was a few dozen cases reported and that’s what we had in common. Turns out the beady thing toilets septic tank was cracked and so was the water taps line…..
Interestingly, Jon Snow was said to have taken action into his own hands and physically removed the handle of the Broadstreet pump, preventing further deaths. The waters of the Broadstreet pump were supposed to be special and it was known to 'sparkle'. When he looked at the addresses of who got sick he found there were several house from richer suburbs that were well away from the pump. Turned out that rich people would send their servants to fetch water from the pump because of this sparkling specialness, but if you let the water stand for a few days it would start to smell! The sparkle came from fecal contamination from nearby cesspits and privies leaking into the well water, causing bubbles to form as the bacteria consumed the fecal matter. Gem theory and the idea there were 'tiny monsters' in the water was pooh poohed (tee hee hee) and ridiculed which is when he removed the pump handle.
BB simon slippin out in that ad read....
and i love it
How many dead people does it take to figure out to not poop in your water supply?
Doodoo water could be perfectly healthy, but you'd think taste alone would make them refrain....
😂😂
What choice was there before sewage systems and treated running water?
At least one more, as always
Boiling water, not pooping in water. Hard to implement ideas, but it can be done
Thank you so much for calling out how entirety curable cholera and similar diseases are. We only need the will to stop these deaths.
I saw a documentary once on the BBC "A doctor in the 19th century thought cholera, was in the water supply so he took the 'handle', off the local water pump, and in that area it cleared up". I think Alan Titmarsh, did the voice over?
As a species, we apparently never learn.
Snow also proposed an alternative after studying water supplies that was boiling water before drinking to reduce the cases in affected areas
A fact that might be interesting is that due to how affected Mexico was by cholera in the mid 1900's our social security system implemented giving oral solution for free to anyone that would have a visit to the doctor for any reason and especially if it involved children, as a result (and aiding to the fact that we often get heatwaves) we have developed a habit of sorts of drinking oral solution instead of just water or sports drinks during the warmer months, we even have several brands a awide variety of flavors that you can buy for cheap at any pharmacy or chain corner store
Oral solution is just the doctor perscribed version of sports drinks. Sports drinks are nothing more that sweet and colored salt water.
@@cggc9510 No one said otherwise, it's obvious that oral solution isn't going to cause you cavities like sports drinks
“Vida suero oral” i remember it.
NGL, whoever found that clip of the hose clearing is the real MVP here. xD What a perfect demonstration of the concept without actually showing it, heh.
There was cholera outbreaks in Papua New Guinea, during the few years that we lived there from 2008. Flash floods would destroy villages and contaminate water sources and crops. A lot of preventable diseases exist in these countries which are rich in resources but due to corruption the general population is dirt poor, which is why I always associate the anti vax mentality as a sign of privilege ....amongst other things 😉
Yeah. Even with non COVID vaccines, seeing priveledged American parents refuse vaccines for their kids that parents accross the world would kill for access to is truly surreal
i am absolutely ENAMORED with this series, id love to see a video on yellow fever!
That was a fantastic video. Donating to Doctors Without Borders in thanks.
I love that organisation! I donate monthly. They are incredible!
The cat in the fridge kills me 😂😂😂
07:40 A minor correction: this is portrait of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, the captain who first linked Europe and India by ocean route.
3:30 - Chapter 1 - The blue death
6:40 - Chapter 2 - The drowned world
10:25 - Chapter 3 - The other pandemic
14:35 - Chapter 4 - A court for the king cholera
17:35 - Chapter 5 - The father of epidemiology
21:40 - Chapter 6 - The poor man's disease
19:08 Jump-scare static.
I love your content. Calling out the greed that keeps treatable diseases alive and lethal was beautifully done.
Cholera is one of the worst things I've ever experienced. I got it in 2017 and then another disease after and my stomach has never been the same. Genuinely wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Got it in 2012, in Bangkok. Was dealt with, but it was not fun.
@@owenshebbeare2999 I got it in Algeria, had no idea what it was and got treatment when I travelled to Egypt the next day. Luckily I was in Egypt and had access to proper medicine before it got too bad
Love In The Time Of Cholera is such a poetic read, kudos for the reference!!
The past was so much worse. It is a shame that any country is stuck in the past, just barely surviving.
As the title is a reference to a book of Gabriel Garcia Marquez named Love in the time of Cholera, I request you to make a video on the celebrated author too.
I was suppose to comment on that. I was a bit late.
@@bluefanofeverything4329 🤝🤝
Agreed
Sadly I was waiting for a link or pun that never came. 😐
@@RankinMsP wow I just checked your channel and found it quite interesting. You've uploaded some videos 9 and 12 years ago! I
17:42 - the best part in this video. I so love when Simon puts on his gospel voice lol 😄🙌
The third 'Naked Gun' movie has a great metaphor.
"Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel things out."
One of your better written episodes, narration-wise. Found myself impressed with the word play on this one. Not sure if it was scripted, or all Simon, but kudos either way.
Continuing cholera outbreaks really are unacceptable in the modern era.
Often they happen in region afflicted by wars, as a result of the failed healthcare and infrastructure. it's easier said than done to fix that in the middle of an ongoing military conflict...
My father caught Vibrio from shellfish.
He had a whopping case of Vibriosis. There were liquids coming from both ends, each one forcing the other out the opposing.
He was creating spin-art ... in the bathroom
I had a case of pneumonia that did that to me. Very unsettling feeling
I had a case of norovirus that did that to me...I didn't know whether to stand up or sit down
Loving the title of this video since "Love In The Time of Cholera" is one of my favorite books ❤
This dude's voice is so comforting and he's handsome af i love watching everything he talks about
Holy hell, the stages of it spiralling down is uncanny.
The bit where Russell Crowe did a header into the Seine kills me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Waiting on your fitness channel now Simon 😂
Feel the Blaze!
Like a blind man in an orgy, is one of the best analogies I ever heard 10/10.
Not here for squatting tips ... How ever Simon squatting in his desk in a old brain blaze (née business blaze) will never not haunt my dreams
I had something - in a Caribbean country about 7 years ago... I was very sick and they don't have good running water there... but they wash their vegetables and cook with bad tap water.. Sometimes they make ice with it. God intervened... a bottle of 7-up probably saved my life.
In my US town about 7 years ago a neighborhood had to be hooked up to city water and sewer.
The people were pissed, but the city responded with: A) this should have been done years ago and B) your pipes are all rusted
You can't always fix stupid, but sometimes laws help prevent it in future generations.
Mankind is glacially slow to learn but when we do, well, we're pretty quick to forget.
Some years ago I saw an exhibition of important historical maps, and Snow's original map was part of that exhibit. It was nice to see something that was so important to us all.
Love the title, Love in the Time of Cholera is one of my favorite books!
I appreciate the humor over such a serious subject.
Knowing enough about my family history that I am aware my GG grandfather’s sister died in the cholera epidemic in NY, 1832. Now I really understand the context. Thanks Simon and team.
That segment with the wildly shitting hose and Leslie Jones was without a doubt the funniest thing I’ve ever seen her in.
In Swedish we have an expression: "Det är som att välja mellan pest och kolera!" which means "It's like choosing between the plague and cholera". I still don't see that as fair to the later one, since the plague is/was much deadlier. Still, cholera is a really awful disease. Wouldn't want to get it - I've gotten so many stomach flus throughout the years, so I can just imagine how truly awful it would be to get this disease.
Crazy, I always thought this was just a german saying: "Die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera"
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Maybe it's a Germanic expression, then? :) I thought we were the only ones with that expression.
@@Elora445 I did some digging german news magazine Spiegel attributes it to Pierre Poujade, a french politician who made a statement regarding having to choose between "plague and cholera" but that was in 1965? So rather european maybe?
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Apparently so! Always interesting to find out random new information like this. :)
we have it in France too !
The "like a blind man at an orgy, humanity was groping in the dark" phrase was quite an unpleasant surprise from this channel.
You know nothing, Jon Snow!
"I know what causes cholera! Suck on that, Louis!"
Ah, a fellow Extra History viewer. You sir, are a gentleman of culture.
@@arutka2000 oh if it's historical i watch it eventually. History is my jam.
That was one of your best. Good job Simon and all the crew.
Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and which Hacksaw Ridge the movie is based on.
"like a blind man in an orgy". The imagery has me dying laughing. Thank you, Simon.
There's this excerpt from a book on the history of the fishing village my mom's side of the family comes from that I'd like to share:
It's told of two young people from Råå who visited Malmö at the time during which the epidemic was at its worst. One of the two young men was careless enough, or rather unwise enough, to visit an acquainted family that had been afflicted by the ailment. At the time he showed up, one family member had even passed away. This didn't deter the youngling however, who stayed at the farm for a couple of hours and didn't even think twice about touching the corpse. When he later returned to Råå, he bragged heavily about his courage and declared "I am living proof that cholera is not communicable". The following day he was the first person in Råå to fall ill and the day following that, he died.
Thanks for including your sources. I don't know if you always have on this channel, but in the past I've looked for them and couldn't find them (possibly on other channels).
Gheeez! History really does repeat itself. Great video!
Damn bro bringing it home with some heartfelt heavy hitters at the end there
I had cholera when I was 10 years old and living in FL in 1983. It was one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had.
The first AD you reminded me of a Charlton Heston type character selling 'Soylent Green'.
Just exactly how many comments are needed on the error made with 1832/1932?
People should read comments before making what they believe to be an original comment.
Great video Team Biographics👋🍻
1:20. By these buzz-words combined, I am Captain Planet!
Let's drink some "RAW water" in tribute to Cholera.
Thank You For This BioG. Answered many questions I had concerning Cholera. Keep Up The Good Work Simon.
I fear the Indigenous communities of Canada will be hit with cholera if the govt doesn’t prioritize giving them clean drinking water. Like Simon said, there is no good reason for cholera outbreaks to occur in this day and age.
Great video. Well done everyone 👏
Its an issue for the southern tribes too. Its the 21st century, and our peoples are still being treated pretty much the same as in the 19th. Now the white man eases his conscious with "at least they have casinos", which creates another epidemic. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been talking about Native issues, and some idiot pops up with that, or "its their own fault"...
I were thinking their water supply was more pure than ours, i realised i dont know about how they treat bad water
@@michellemire8462 it's almost like we have taken their land and polluted their resources or something
In Sweden we have a saying if we are presented with two bad choices. "It's like choosing between the plague and cholera"
Sad you never mentioned Gabriel García Márquez and his book 😔
Best part of this video: "What is a squat?" 😂😂😂
Who is this video's editor? The stuff he added kept on cracking me. Hahahaha.
I came here exactly to say this!
Your voice make me love these videos but also how simple you talk and how funny some jokes are.
I would love for you to do a video on Nestor Mankho as he is one of the most intresting players in the Russian civil war. Most people don't know about him because he was an anarchist who lost the war obviously but his anarchist military state is one of the few places in history where anarchism was adopted for a brief period of time. Also the area where his group formed is now where Ukraine is fighting separatists movement.
Love your content Simon!
Was your hecton calculated before or after the expulsion of bodily fluids?
"Like a blind man at an orgy, humanity was grabbing in the dark" Great dad joke
Me "I want to start a UA-cam channel"
Simon "Let me have 10 more of that"
Aw damn, Simon has a fidge goblin, too? Same... I make sure he's not in there when I close it but sometimes I'll close it fast then open it again for something else and my dumb guys in there, trying to access the veggies.
Tchaikovsky decided to play "chicken" with cholera and drank some unboiled water.
Cholera won.
Soy medico y estos videos son de la mas alta calidad y veracidad cientifica … felicitaciones por tu trabajo… 😎👍👨⚕️⚕️
A biographics video on a virus, and I’m about to go to bed! Perfecto
So could the first outbreak (in the Ganges delta) be considered the “Delta variant” then?
Yes.
Badumbadumbum tssss
Simon, thanks for posting. Very informational.
If you need an interview, let me know
This channel gets me through lockdown
You're still under a lockdown? I forget that some places are still suffering through that.
I'd love to try athletics green, have heard many good things about it. But sadly they don't ship to Svalbard or Norway, due to Norways weird import laws for food supplements
Simon, check the Ceviche dish in Peru and related cholera outbreaks.
How ironic that I'm watching this while taking a poo. Not gonna drink it though, thanks Simon 👍