Mask, yes, gloves, no. Have hand sanitizer on me if i go out at all. If you wear gloves you'd have to wash them or throw them away after every use. I find it helpful to avoid spreading germs with gloves by instead washing hands or sanitizing. As much as you wash/sanitize your hands is how much you'd need to be washing/changing your gloves to prevent spread, in my mind. I do think that gloves and a mask are a good queue to keep in mind because of the fact that a physical barrier could hypothetically keep you consciously aware and prevent you from touching your face. Thanks for the video! Always great!
She refused to follow the one rule she was given. I understand that being a cook paid more and that she just didn’t believe the autorities, but were they supposed to let her do as she pleased, when they had enough evidences to support the conclusion that she was the carrier ? The others asymptomatic carriers might have been more willing to cooperate with doctors or have a better hygiene, hence the lack of confinement. I do not condone any ill treatment of her, but her second confinement was inevitable due to her choices.
@S C when u see ur betters swindle and make back door deals and harm others for self gain , it's easy to see her side of things,not everyone is a good person most aren't, there are a lot of ways to be ignorant. Just saying....
Even if she wasn't an asymptomatic carrier the fact that she almost never washed her hands before and after cooking? Forget about typhoid, I'm surprised those families didn't contract tetanus! (yes tetanus can be spread via food).
@@sheesh1483 Tetanus is a bacteria, which can be spread via methods most bacterium can propagate. A rusty nail is simply a VERY hospitable environment for the bacteria.
They do a poor job of describing it here. Mary did wash her hands, however the infectious nature of her bacteria was so bad it basically requires surgical scrubbing to remove.
Duncan Price The nail does not have to be rusty. It’s the pucture that is dangerous. If the outer part of the wound heals first, the bacteria 🦠 is trapped inside to fester
On one hand, I can see how she felt singled out. However, all evidence pointed to her. It didn't help that she changed her name after every job. To me, it says she may have known, but cared more about herself.
Of course she knew that she was responsible for the outbreaks. Why else would she keep changing her name? She deserved the forced quarantine, since she purposely spread the disease.
@@biggfish7010 someone commented that she thought she was being persecuted for being an Irish Immigrant, which was common being persecuted back then. Idk if she believed she had the disease but I do believe she was paranoid and that caused her to avoid authorities and change her name so she wouldnt be a prisoner for being Irish (as what she thought). Its like being a Jew and always thinking youll be persecuted in Germany in 1930s. Big deal.
@@yelloe This woman had an a problem. She conviently left each job when an outbreak happened even before she was 1st caught. Maybe the disease infected her brain which contributed to her violence and denial. But she admitted that being a cook paid more than other jobs and only wanted to only work as a cook. Sounds more like greed when using her heritage as an excuse.
She changed her name to protect her livlihood. I imagine she wouldnt work often if people told her potential employers that she was responsible for a typhoid outbreak. Even if in her mind it wasnt true.
Mary Mallon is a unique case, both villain and victim. The fact that she kept changing her name _before_ the health department cottoned on suggests that she knew something was up. That said, she was also an Irish immigrant into America in the early 1900s, and blaming random catastrophes on immigrants, especially the Irish, was pretty much a national pastime, and from her perspective, a bunch of doctors pointing at her and claiming she's the cause of all these typhoid infections despite the fact that she showed no symptoms and that there were no known cases of someone carrying Typhoid without showing symptoms would seem pretty suspicious to me, too. However, the fact that she was unwilling to provide samples to clear her name is also suspicious to me.
From her perspective these are the 'crazy' doctors who think that you can have a disease without showing symptoms (and without germ theory what is a disease but a set of symptoms?) are they really trustworthy enough to believe they would clear her when they've clearly already decided she's guilty (and as a poor immigrant she's used to the idea of we don't need evidence to decide you're guilty), so why bother cooperating with further indignity.
@@10superpower this was an era in which doctors could intern you in an asylum with self proclaimed FACTS. I know Mary was guilty, but I understand why a nin educated woman of that age would be afraid of be the guinea pig of some doctors
My great grandmother died from typhoid in 1922. Her mother died a month later. I can't imagine what she went through. My grandpa remembered his mother's death in great detail and he never got over it...in fact you'd mention his mother and he would tear up.
I was an asymptomatic strep throat carrier when I was a kid. My sister was always sick with it, until one day the doctor told my my mom to get ME tested. I came up positive, and was treated with antibiotics, and my sister stopped getting sick. Since then, though, oh I get symptoms. I also get strep throat, even well into my middle age.
If Mary would have cooperated in the first place, her entire situation could have been avoidable. Knowing that she was strongly advised NOT to cook and decided to ignore the warning and COOKED ANYWAY, she had to learn the hard way. And if I was the officer chasing after her on foot for three hours, I wouldn't like her either. She knew the risks and she could have gotten the help that she needed had she cooperated with authorities. She could have saved lives.
If those in authority had set up a situation where she could have lived a decent life, with a regular income, she probably would have co-operated in exchange for some hygiene education. I imagine, as a woman from a poor family, it would have been hard to earn enough to survive. I doubt she had any education, and simply did not believe she was spreading anything. I bet the authorities and experts involved just bullied this woman and threatened to make an already tough life harder.
considering she knowingly spread the disease and still refused to wash her hands and co-operate after she was caught. she indeed was a threat to society.
Really? Do you think if she was offered a little cottage and double her income on the proviso she learnt about and practiced hygiene, Mary would not have jumped at the chance? When she washed clothes for a time, her income was almost half what she made as a cook. Then she injured herself and could not work for 6 months. No welfare in those times, so she must have been in danger of starving to death literally. The authorities tried to bully Mary, instead of trying to find a fair solution, and their actions cost lives. The authorities were educated, Mary was not.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn hmm yea one thing I dislike was she never washed her hands nor did she try to warn others about the disease, she was self aware, but I didn't like how they treated her like a specimen instead of human
If anyone else is wondering: she was contagious for such a long period because salmonella can inject itself into someone’s cells for a prolonged time. This phenomenon makes the host able to chronically spread the disease, as well as never showing symptoms. These people have been dubbed “super-spreaders”. This video mentioned that salmonella injects itself into cells, but I was curious as to how she was infectious for so long!
I have some empathy. In the 60s, my grandmother who was very proud of her third grade education which was a lot for a farm girl born in 1900 repeatedly infected me with strep throat for many years. Kaiser doctors in California never noticed as it was an in and out operation and never looked at my health history. Due to a bad flu in 1972, private practice doctors started filling in as needed. When I was taken into the clinic sick again, the doctor I saw that day actually looked at my history and told my mother that there was a carrier around me. EVERYONE was tested from school, church and the neighborhood. My grandmother was the last to be tested as she refused to believe such a thing was possible. She burst into tears when she was shown the test results. She held me and apologized over and over. She at least had the intelligence and grace to accept the facts when presented with them. I think Mary Mellon had a pride issue. It would have been painful for her to admit having been responsible for all that death and suffering.
I would feel bad for her if she didn’t go back to cooking after she found out she was an asymptomatic carrier. Like it sucks but why would she put others at risk when she could just work a different job?
Because she didn't have the privilege of choosing a different job. She was an Irish immigrant woman from the 1900s. Her only skillset was in cooking. What was she going to do?
She got a job washing clothes and then quit to go back to cooking. I doubt washing clothes was harder for her than cooking. She just didn't want to follow the rules and thus deserves what she got.
Seems like she didn't think she was a carrier and refused to believe otherwise. A classic tale of the destructive power inherit with a mistrust in science. In this sense the spirit of Typhoid Mary never really went away.
@@mikatu Would you say that to the essential workers who are forced to work without proper protection, despite knowing they could infect others? Again, privilege was a big factor in this story, I think.
I got typhoid in India. It is BAD... Really bad. Started with a migraine, vomiting, extreme fatigue/body weakness, diarrhea, chills and fever. Had to be on an IV for a week and bedridden for a month. Felt near to death, worst sickness ever. (That I experienced)
Where my sympathies lie. She was a woman and product of her time and origins, and couldn't be bothered to believe in new science, something we see a lot in today's society, surprisingly. So yes I can see why she would feel victimized and would be afraid of everything that was "implied"; however, there is one thing that should have happened for me to actually be concerned for how she was treated given the period of time. That is she was told on several occasions how to stop the spread, and even if she didn't believe it herself, it wasn't something that was life altering like her decisions wound up being. Washing your hands. Had she done that it's likely her fate could have been avoided. Ultimately it was her decisions that got her to that point, up until she proved that she could not be trusted to make good decisions everything was her choice.
I completely agree. While I can sympathize slightly with her for trying to find work in her time, it was also quite obvious that the spread of typhoid to those people were undoubtedly her fault, and quite unforgivable.
@@snacciboii8961 Yowzas I just fixed what I wrote. Yikes, I wrote that on 0 sleep. I'm glad that some people were able to understand what I was trying to say. I'm honestly not all that surprised that she was in such denial about her being the spread. We are seeing it every day currently, and we've seen it in the past with other epidemics too. Still had she done what she was told, washed her hands and looked for other work, much of this could have been avoided. You can deny it all you want in your head, but if someone is telling you that no you can't do this or we will make sure you can't, then why not do what their saying? You can still be listening to that voice in your head that's saying "they don't know anything", but still do what they ask because the alternative is far from pleasant. Denial is one thing, not listening and being thrown into quarantine, especially the second and final time, is something else entirely.
@@Sw1ss_M1ss The police isn't too kind to me, I have been stopped and asked for papers several times, most likely because I stand out as I am atleast two heads taller than most and have according to them, blonde hair. I do love the Italian hospitality of some, but recently the elderly in question seem more on edge and rather grumpy
Out here in the country I spend a lot of time outside, painting, yardwork, etc. Its nice having the roads clear and the stores fairly empty.... as we destroy ourselves and our economy over a cold.
Tbh I never heard this, but thank you! I am in love with history especially this narrator and his sarcastic remarks. My 8th grade history teacher ruined history for me.. So I'm glad I found this channel
When I found out the details of Mary Mallon's case and her situation, I could easily see why she would be so resistant to doctors, at least in the beginning. More then that though, I found myself thinking it was really just a case of extreme denial on her part. People can rationalize anything - they don't necessarily need solid reasoning or proof. Being already so disadvantaged as she was, and how easily people could fall ill and die in those earlier days of medicine, It wouldn't be hard for Mary to justify her actions. That said, even if she didn't believe (or really didn't want to believe) that she was the cause of the all the sickness and death around her, Mary's complete refusal to cooperate on even the simplest of levels with authorities really was her own undoing. If she had simply to taken better care of her hygene (which I can't imagine she didn't know about at this point thanks to doctors) then she might have kept her freedom even despite working as a cook again. Maybe it was part of her denial; a way to prove to herself that she didn't doctors' guild lines, that she was fine and none of tho typhoid outbreaks were not her fault. Ultimately though, it doesn't really matter what her reasoning was; in the end, as much as her treatment may have been unfair and even cruel, Mary's actions really didn't give authorities much choice.
@Tea drinker The fact that she changed her name so often even before the authorities got involved shows me that she knew something was up. And yet, she blatantly disregarded the ONE instruction the doctors gave to her. She is absolutely guilty.
Shallow analysis. Over one hundred years ago. An uneducated woman that struggled to support herself. Germ theory was relatively unknown. This woman would have thought she was healthy, so considered it impossible to transmit a disease. I bet the experts and authorities bullied her like hell and she did everything to avoid them. The authorities could have set up a situation where they provided her a house and generous income in exchange for hygiene education and they would have achieved far more. No one poor in those times had much chance in those days in the way of justice or fairness and most would have avoided anyone with power if at all possible. This situation arose due to the authorities not even attempting to be fair and kind. They had power and they used it. The outcome was not good for anyone.
@Kazzana Benefit of the doubt, she has none. It is not hard to see the consequence of your actions. She knew exactly what she was doing. You don't need to understand Newton's laws of motion or the theory of gravity to conclude that people die when you push them off cliffs.
How much responsibility do you take, ensuring your body is healthy and can fight off infection? I see plenty with lifestyle comorbidities asking others to risk their health and taking a drug is always a risk. I cannot decide others choices of lifestyle that is the biggest contributed to adverse outcomes, yet these same folk are asking everyone to risk their own health. I think people today need to do a great deal more thinking and reading for themselves, instead of parroting phrases they hear on mainstream media. The issues are complex. Question any source of information that does not link the data for verification; Doing things for the greater good has not played out well in history. Millions died for that experiment last century. Careful what freedoms you give up for perceived safety.
No, don't think that is true. People were very cooperative for a long time, most of which was unnecessary. Those most at risk were the ones who needed to protect themselves, not everyone and especially not children. What was done to children was harmful and inexcusable.
@@joycegreer9391 Yea, that's bullcrap. There has been a conservative covid denial movement in this country from the beginning. It wasn't a disease that just hit high risk, although they were the worst hit and there are a lot of people who were perfectly healthy at the start and now have long covid.
@@Nico-hs4rt "There has been a conservative covid denial movement in this country from the beginning." No, THAT is BS. No one ever denied the existence and severity of COVID. Also no one said only those at high risk would get COVID. Children were greatly harmed by the restrictions put on them, not by COVID.
I think you can both feel sympathy for Typhoid Mary and feel that she got what she deserved. Her obstinance and refusal to protect others forced the authorities hand. One has to wonder how different her life might have turned out if she had elected to have the surgery or simply observed simple procedures like washing her hands and being much more sanitary. It's a sad tale that has many parallels to our current time. How difficult is it to wash your hands? How difficult is it to wear a mask? Not at all. Some of us suffer severe breathing issues (myself included). The mask has never been a hinderance and asthma is an excuse. Many people live in denial and/or simply don't like to be told what to do. Mary is a perfect example. The big difference between then and now is that he science is much more accurate today.
Still, does that deserve what is essentially life imprisonment? Hand washing was a fairly novel idea at the time, and how would you react if you were accused of unintentionally infecting your employers? It's possible cooking was the only way she knew to make money
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 Yes, because some people stop, only when they are stopped. Mary was stopped, lives were saved. Yes, those stubborn, selfish people exist, it doesn't matter how many people suffer because of them. In fact, I think she's suspect for NPD.
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 She wasn't imprisoned for life the first time. She was released but she just couldn't stop spreading the typhoid around, could she? Even to the maternity ward! She was a cook at a hospital FFS. I wouldn't even bother with a life imprisonment. There are perfectly good walls and guns going to waste.
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 She killed three people, that we know of. She would have gone on to kill more if not imprisoned. That warrants life imprisonment. While the first death could be justifiably called an accident the other two would be at least negligent homicide. Any notion that she was just ignorant is shown false by her behavior. She was told what to do to prevent spreading typhoid, she refused to do it. She constantly changed jobs and her name to avoid attention. This is not the behavior of an honest but ignorant person, it is the behavior of someone who is knowingly endangering others and simply does not care.
Tea laBlu Exactly! Omg the amount of blame being put on her is unreal. Typhoid was something she saw daily as she was a poor, uneducated, Irish woman. It was weird in wealthy households but daily life to the poor. To her it would have been as weird as blaming her for the weather
I do feel some sympathy for Mary. She was trying to protect her livelihood and freedom. However I also find it astounding and troubleshooting that she didn't exhibit any compassion for the people she was infecting.
@@2Bad4YOUuu No, I was merely trying to imagine what it would have been like to survive in those times, considering the level of education and a very tiered society. I doubt if she was evil, just simply uneducated, living in a society where you could easily stave if you did not fight for survival.
I am a relation to Mary Mallon (last name still Mallon). The story is a lot more complicated than it sounds. Uneducated and desperate make people do stupid things. When you have no symptoms it is not unreasonable to be hesitant to believe that one person can effect so many people in such a horrible way.
I'm so happy and relieved to know after she was isolated in an island, she found her own happiness to help others. By making others happy, having good friends and a job as a nurse.
She demonstrated with her own behavior that she was not to be trusted. I'm surprised that she wasn't confined to a psych facility. BTW, this reminds me of an episode of Naked City that I saw back around 1963 about a young woman who escaped from quarantine on a similar island in NYC. She carried a tropical disease that only affected people of a certain blood type. I wonder if they based their story on this.
Mary most likely didn’t understand her condition and obviously didn’t believe there was anything wrong with her. However, she had to be controlled and isolated. A sad situation for her.
I feel bad for her, but it is disconcerting that she kept ignoring the science. The Irish were treated badly during the time and may have colored her refusal to listen and cooperate.
She refused to the one stipulation, not to cook for others, that would mean she was allowed to freely go about living her life; she was the architect of her own incarceration.
Back in the early days of office computer networking, I was hired to network one department's computers for the first time. I distinctly remember how offended some people were when I checked their computers for viruses. It was as if I were accusing them of being personally "unclean". I can only imagine how Mary felt back in those days when strange men with stories of invisible bacteria lurking in her perfectly healthy body accused Mary of making people sick with her delicious, nutritious food -- you don't get kept on to cook for wealthy families unless you're good at your job. She lacked the capacity or education or both to understand what they were telling her and cooking was her only source of income and pride. What a mess.
I remember watching a video about a whole family dying from E. coli poisoning form the food their maid/cook severed, she wouldn’t wash her hands and on a few occasions she’d scratch a butt and not just the cheeks🤮 I think it was in the 1800’s - early 1900’s too
An elderly physician at the Roosevelt Hospital (Columbia, New York) circa 1905 habitually diagnosed early typhoid by means of a detailed manual examination of the tongue. He often turned out, weeks later, to be right. Lewis Thomas, in "The Youngest Science," says he was a more productive carrier than Typhoid Mary.
Typhoid Mary be like : I gotta 99 jobs and hand washing ain't one 😂 Changing names, resisting investigation she was a well planned criminal bro. But a part of me pitied her too because lifetime quarantine is huge punishment she never learned tho. I loved the video. It's much more than the biology textbooks would tell.
@@tamararutland-mills9530 someone enjoying the luck of being born a human that they could avoid natural selection, someone that's willing to fight their way into Walmart, assault a worker, and disregard basic requirements because their ego and ignorance outweighs their common sense and humanity.
You really went all out for the visuals on this one! I didn’t expect to see guest appearances from Rosalind Russell, Benny Hill, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and Francis Farmer! Too late now, but The excellent TV series “The Knick“ covered the story of Typhoid Mary over a few episodes. The production values were considerably better than the cheesy production you had to use this time. Always great well researched info, thanks.
If she cause 50 fatalities as it is speculated, i think most people would get a life sentence of some sort. Also not complying to the restrictions from the government also would not help her case.
She was reprimanded by a competent judicial court already for being a threat to public health by indulging in unsanitary occupational standard of cooking she was lucky court was still lenient to let her go her way on her promise to the distraught of victims and families.
Yes, agreed, the vaccinated can now be symptom free, get infected and transmit the disease. Those that have not been vaccinated will probably get symptoms and stay home until they recover. What a dilemma for the virtue signalers. Keep in mind, Mary was struggling to make a living, uneducated and no doubt mistrusting of authorities. Today folk have the education, but prefer just to do whatever mainstream media and authorities dictate without consideration of the consequences. Folk today do not want to take responsibility for their own lives and decisions, but would rather leave the bothersome stuff to someone else. There will be consequences for not doing one's own research.
@@joycegreer9391 people refuse to wash their hands because it "enhances immunity" (BS) and don't scrub their bodies because of the "trickle effect" (BS)... so yeah pretty true. I wash my hands religiously and I never get sick, and I scrub every part of my body too.
@@enochia Well I hope most people are not as filthy nasty as her. I always wash my hands a lot. I'm very particular about clean hands, no nastiness and germs.
If she started changing her name every time there was an outbreak BEFORE doctors started telling her she was giving it to everyone, then she 100% knew and just didn't want to take responsibility for it. I don't feel any sympathy. She was told by so many medical professionals that she was endangering lives. She was treated as badly as she was because she was so dishonest and kept making people sick.
The lack of personal hygiene is still common especially in 3rd world countries where toilet paper or hot water is not available to the poor. People who have immigrated from those countries have infected their employers who hire them to cook or do other household duties.
The fact that she kept changing locations and changing your name just goes to show she was being deceptive. And also shows she was trying to avoid them proving that she was in fact the spreader.
They don't mention that after she died they found a journal of hers where it stated that not only did she know that she had this condition she was infecting people on purpose.
I believe she knew not wanting to get tested and fighting. She was just trying to survive. If she was pegged having typhoid she was guaranteed to be tossed out into the gutter.
She belonged in prison, so I don't feel bad for her for being quarantined until she died. She was given a second chance but continued to cook food and infect others, she can't lie and say she didn't know she has the virus.
about the handwashing thing: do y'all know how HARSH soaps were back then?? and how many people washed their hands before handling food? she probably wasn't the ONLY person who didn't wash her hands all the time.
Difference is other people weren't infected. If you are told to do something by the authorities and your freedom is on the line, do it, no matter how hard it is because the alternative is worse.
@@pkj2148 No, that is not true. If you do everything you are ordered to do by authorities you will end up with no freedom at all. Instead of acting like tyrants, they could have come up with a solution to achieve their ends.
She was given a chance to live her life, but she refused to do the one thing she was asked. The cooking at the hospital gig was probably what really caused her lifetime confinement. Since she would not listen to what she was told (no cooking for people), I think she deserved her confinement. She directly caused the death of at least three people.
I took a course in my college which was called public health law in fall 2019 right before covid-19 lol. Passed that class with a 100%. Thypoid Mary was an interesting topic.
I felt bad for her during the first quarantine she endured, but I had no sympathy for her second quarantining. She was warned, she decided to do the same thing anyway, she faced the consequence, they gave her a second chance and she spat at it. There's no excuse for that, even if she didn't believe in the new science of germs and handwashing she could easily believe if she was punished once she would be again and did it anyway.
I was reading about Anna Swan the Nova Scotia Giantess today since it is her wedding anniversary. I searched on UA-cam and only found one video about her. I found it strange because I had never heard of her before today but from the story I read about her amazing life I thought there would be a lot. If you could do a video about her and her husband I would really enjoy it.
I feel bad that she had to live like that but really it's on her. The fact that she kept changing her name and still worked as a cook even though they said not to and provided evidence shows she knew but didn't care. those people died for no reason. she had the chance the live freely and blew it.
Although typhoid Mary was a carrier, she never became asymptomatic. Mary left a trail of sickness and death where ever she was employed as a cook. What they fail to reveal in this story is that Mary had a nasty habit of scratching and digging in her rectum with her bare hands while handling food. She never washed her hands afterwards , which is how she contaminated the food she prepared and served to her employers and their families.
Yeah she got what she deserved. She was indifferent to everyone she came in contact with. And because she didn’t care about anybody else but herself she got what she deserved
She broke her promise and went back to working as a cook, in a maternity hospital no less! 😳 😱 😢. I’m here trying to be sympathetic and advocate for her human rights, but what about the human rights of the people that died due to her negligence?
@@louannlasher3748 They're not public. It is true that until after 1910 she didn't believe she was a carrier, but the endless cycle of working a badly paid job she disliked like being a washer woman, followed by the switch to her far better paid position as a cook along with strong denial of her carrier status, followed by an outbreak of the illness, followed by denial and a sudden change of location to start said cycle with a new identity all over...all that messed up her sanity. She took some jobs hoping the people would get it, other times she was back in denial...not a healthy way to live. Also, if you had it ppl usually became healthy again afterwards so the fact that it just didn't end, ever, was hard for people of that time to understand. So most of the time, when noone got sick around her for some time, she thought it was finally over and then she took a job as a cook and suddenly it started again. Other times she just hated her employers and wanted them to catch it, but at that point her situation had shaken up her sanity. But yeah, her diaries aren't open to the public and their content can't be published.
@@jazmynbrown7373 I didn't, I just work for a uni and recently the mental health of carriers has been a big topic, so typhoid Mary came up as the first well known example.
Are you wearing gloves and a mask when you go outside?
Yes, both
Im not going outside
Mask, yes, gloves, no. Have hand sanitizer on me if i go out at all. If you wear gloves you'd have to wash them or throw them away after every use. I find it helpful to avoid spreading germs with gloves by instead washing hands or sanitizing. As much as you wash/sanitize your hands is how much you'd need to be washing/changing your gloves to prevent spread, in my mind. I do think that gloves and a mask are a good queue to keep in mind because of the fact that a physical barrier could hypothetically keep you consciously aware and prevent you from touching your face. Thanks for the video! Always great!
Only at work. Otherwise I don't since I steer clear of other people.
Only mask! Health care workers do not suggest wearing gloves
She refused to follow the one rule she was given. I understand that being a cook paid more and that she just didn’t believe the autorities, but were they supposed to let her do as she pleased, when they had enough evidences to support the conclusion that she was the carrier ? The others asymptomatic carriers might have been more willing to cooperate with doctors or have a better hygiene, hence the lack of confinement. I do not condone any ill treatment of her, but her second confinement was inevitable due to her choices.
Agreed
She could have just had her gallbladder removed too.
@S C when u see ur betters swindle and make back door deals and harm others for self gain , it's easy to see her side of things,not everyone is a good person most aren't, there are a lot of ways to be ignorant. Just saying....
No excuse to harming others. No sympathy. She could have continued supporting herself if she had not been stubborn about it.
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Surgeries have been done for thousands of years. It’s not like it was unheard of in the 1900s.
Even if she wasn't an asymptomatic carrier the fact that she almost never washed her hands before and after cooking? Forget about typhoid, I'm surprised those families didn't contract tetanus! (yes tetanus can be spread via food).
She is just nasty a person.
How do you spread tetanus by food? Sorry if i sound stupid but im genuinely curious
@@sheesh1483 Tetanus is a bacteria, which can be spread via methods most bacterium can propagate. A rusty nail is simply a VERY hospitable environment for the bacteria.
They do a poor job of describing it here. Mary did wash her hands, however the infectious nature of her bacteria was so bad it basically requires surgical scrubbing to remove.
Duncan Price The nail does not have to be rusty. It’s the pucture that is dangerous. If the outer part of the wound heals first, the bacteria 🦠 is trapped inside to fester
On one hand, I can see how she felt singled out. However, all evidence pointed to her. It didn't help that she changed her name after every job. To me, it says she may have known, but cared more about herself.
Of course she knew that she was responsible for the outbreaks. Why else would she keep changing her name?
She deserved the forced quarantine, since she purposely spread the disease.
@@biggfish7010 someone commented that she thought she was being persecuted for being an Irish Immigrant, which was common being persecuted back then. Idk if she believed she had the disease but I do believe she was paranoid and that caused her to avoid authorities and change her name so she wouldnt be a prisoner for being Irish (as what she thought). Its like being a Jew and always thinking youll be persecuted in Germany in 1930s. Big deal.
@@yelloe This woman had an a problem. She conviently left each job when an outbreak happened even before she was 1st caught. Maybe the disease infected her brain which contributed to her violence and denial. But she admitted that being a cook paid more than other jobs and only wanted to only work as a cook. Sounds more like greed when using her heritage as an excuse.
as a irish person it was normal in the 1800s to change your name especially in new york lol
She changed her name to protect her livlihood. I imagine she wouldnt work often if people told her potential employers that she was responsible for a typhoid outbreak. Even if in her mind it wasnt true.
1900s: Typhoid Mary
2020: COVID Karen
@R Williams Says the far-left conspiracy theorist.
@T K I wasn't defending myself. I was stating a fact. You like to accuse people and create stories on your mind. You must be a Karen.
@T K People that like to use the words alt-right are far left conspiracy theorists, luv. If you don't know I can't do much for you.
Covid karen needs to be a tshirt lol
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“She was treated inhumanly...” I have a really hard time feeling bad for her...
Mary Mallon is a unique case, both villain and victim. The fact that she kept changing her name _before_ the health department cottoned on suggests that she knew something was up. That said, she was also an Irish immigrant into America in the early 1900s, and blaming random catastrophes on immigrants, especially the Irish, was pretty much a national pastime, and from her perspective, a bunch of doctors pointing at her and claiming she's the cause of all these typhoid infections despite the fact that she showed no symptoms and that there were no known cases of someone carrying Typhoid without showing symptoms would seem pretty suspicious to me, too. However, the fact that she was unwilling to provide samples to clear her name is also suspicious to me.
From her perspective these are the 'crazy' doctors who think that you can have a disease without showing symptoms (and without germ theory what is a disease but a set of symptoms?) are they really trustworthy enough to believe they would clear her when they've clearly already decided she's guilty (and as a poor immigrant she's used to the idea of we don't need evidence to decide you're guilty), so why bother cooperating with further indignity.
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj That's fair.
Imagine that conversation.
Doctor: We think you're spreading typhoid. Please stop working.
Mary: Impossible. You're just racist.
Doctor: Want to prove it?
Mary: Uh...
@@10superpower this was an era in which doctors could intern you in an asylum with self proclaimed FACTS. I know Mary was guilty, but I understand why a nin educated woman of that age would be afraid of be the guinea pig of some doctors
Mike Keller It's pretty well proven that Trump is incapable&unconcerned with learning...unless it involves a way to increase his personal finances
She never washes her hands? I can imagine all those dirt in her nails getting into the food 🤢 🤮
Most people didn't wash their hands, back then
Kat McKenzie well. not necessarily. Soap made of Pig and Cow Fat was probably the most commonly used type of soap, during that time
@@TheSpiralProgression nah, it was made by muslim so they wouldn't use pig.. instead they use olive oil alkali and lime
@@sirsnakespeare In the United States, Pig and Cow Fat were most predominantly used for Soap
@@trenecer3658 Yeah, because of the lack of knowledge regarding Germ Theory and whatnot
Wash your hands guys, or your name will be immortalized by spreading the coronavirus
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My great grandmother died from typhoid in 1922. Her mother died a month later. I can't imagine what she went through. My grandpa remembered his mother's death in great detail and he never got over it...in fact you'd mention his mother and he would tear up.
I was an asymptomatic strep throat carrier when I was a kid. My sister was always sick with it, until one day the doctor told my my mom to get ME tested. I came up positive, and was treated with antibiotics, and my sister stopped getting sick. Since then, though, oh I get symptoms. I also get strep throat, even well into my middle age.
If Mary would have cooperated in the first place, her entire situation could have been avoidable. Knowing that she was strongly advised NOT to cook and decided to ignore the warning and COOKED ANYWAY, she had to learn the hard way. And if I was the officer chasing after her on foot for three hours, I wouldn't like her either. She knew the risks and she could have gotten the help that she needed had she cooperated with authorities. She could have saved lives.
If those in authority had set up a situation where she could have lived a decent life, with a regular income, she probably would have co-operated in exchange for some hygiene education. I imagine, as a woman from a poor family, it would have been hard to earn enough to survive. I doubt she had any education, and simply did not believe she was spreading anything. I bet the authorities and experts involved just bullied this woman and threatened to make an already tough life harder.
@@kazzana9013 exactly, they treated her like some specimen instead of human being
@@-yumichan-9054 cause she was a specimen she was scum of the earth and a disgusting sack of filth
@@SuperAgua ?
a human isn't a specimen, but yes she was unhygienic.
"scum of the earth" fits people like criminals better.
Aye, y'all can't lie; Mary's footwork must've been *exquisite* as hell, for her to outrun the authorities THAT many times 😂
Damn you're a snack
Kinara A. No she was just a white woman
No....those cops SUCKED
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considering she knowingly spread the disease and still refused to wash her hands and co-operate after she was caught. she indeed was a threat to society.
Really? Do you think if she was offered a little cottage and double her income on the proviso she learnt about and practiced hygiene, Mary would not have jumped at the chance? When she washed clothes for a time, her income was almost half what she made as a cook. Then she injured herself and could not work for 6 months. No welfare in those times, so she must have been in danger of starving to death literally. The authorities tried to bully Mary, instead of trying to find a fair solution, and their actions cost lives. The authorities were educated, Mary was not.
@@kazzana9013 no. she was a menace who didnt care about people around her.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn yea but how would you feel if you were treated like some specimen and whats more, they did plenty of things against her will
@@-yumichan-9054 probably not become a fucking cook while being aware Im infectious and everything I make will cause people to die.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn hmm yea one thing I dislike was she never washed her hands nor did she try to warn others about the disease, she was self aware, but I didn't like how they treated her like a specimen instead of human
If anyone else is wondering: she was contagious for such a long period because salmonella can inject itself into someone’s cells for a prolonged time. This phenomenon makes the host able to chronically spread the disease, as well as never showing symptoms. These people have been dubbed “super-spreaders”. This video mentioned that salmonella injects itself into cells, but I was curious as to how she was infectious for so long!
Not all the tests on Mary returned positive.
Yes, that's what I wondering. Did the typhoid never leave her system?
Obligate intercellular anaerobe
I have some empathy. In the 60s, my grandmother who was very proud of her third grade education which was a lot for a farm girl born in 1900 repeatedly infected me with strep throat for many years. Kaiser doctors in California never noticed as it was an in and out operation and never looked at my health history. Due to a bad flu in 1972, private practice doctors started filling in as needed. When I was taken into the clinic sick again, the doctor I saw that day actually looked at my history and told my mother that there was a carrier around me. EVERYONE was tested from school, church and the neighborhood. My grandmother was the last to be tested as she refused to believe such a thing was possible. She burst into tears when she was shown the test results. She held me and apologized over and over. She at least had the intelligence and grace to accept the facts when presented with them. I think Mary Mellon had a pride issue. It would have been painful for her to admit having been responsible for all that death and suffering.
This woman was doing the corona challenge long before the virus came into being...
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People never change
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You know she'd be on Insta in modern times licking a toilet saying she won't get it #yolo lmao
What's the Corona challenge
Mary had a little bug,
She spread it to and fro,
And everywhere that Mary cooked,
The family was sure to go...
To the grave.
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Omg, damn that's funny!! It shouldn't be...
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I would feel bad for her if she didn’t go back to cooking after she found out she was an asymptomatic carrier. Like it sucks but why would she put others at risk when she could just work a different job?
Because she didn't have the privilege of choosing a different job. She was an Irish immigrant woman from the 1900s. Her only skillset was in cooking. What was she going to do?
She got a job washing clothes and then quit to go back to cooking. I doubt washing clothes was harder for her than cooking. She just didn't want to follow the rules and thus deserves what she got.
She was doing it on purpose.... are you so blind you can't see that?
Seems like she didn't think she was a carrier and refused to believe otherwise. A classic tale of the destructive power inherit with a mistrust in science. In this sense the spirit of Typhoid Mary never really went away.
@@mikatu Would you say that to the essential workers who are forced to work without proper protection, despite knowing they could infect others? Again, privilege was a big factor in this story, I think.
I got typhoid in India. It is BAD... Really bad. Started with a migraine, vomiting, extreme fatigue/body weakness, diarrhea, chills and fever. Had to be on an IV for a week and bedridden for a month. Felt near to death, worst sickness ever. (That I experienced)
Where my sympathies lie. She was a woman and product of her time and origins, and couldn't be bothered to believe in new science, something we see a lot in today's society, surprisingly. So yes I can see why she would feel victimized and would be afraid of everything that was "implied"; however, there is one thing that should have happened for me to actually be concerned for how she was treated given the period of time. That is she was told on several occasions how to stop the spread, and even if she didn't believe it herself, it wasn't something that was life altering like her decisions wound up being. Washing your hands. Had she done that it's likely her fate could have been avoided. Ultimately it was her decisions that got her to that point, up until she proved that she could not be trusted to make good decisions everything was her choice.
I completely agree. While I can sympathize slightly with her for trying to find work in her time, it was also quite obvious that the spread of typhoid to those people were undoubtedly her fault, and quite unforgivable.
@@snacciboii8961 Yowzas I just fixed what I wrote. Yikes, I wrote that on 0 sleep. I'm glad that some people were able to understand what I was trying to say.
I'm honestly not all that surprised that she was in such denial about her being the spread. We are seeing it every day currently, and we've seen it in the past with other epidemics too. Still had she done what she was told, washed her hands and looked for other work, much of this could have been avoided. You can deny it all you want in your head, but if someone is telling you that no you can't do this or we will make sure you can't, then why not do what their saying? You can still be listening to that voice in your head that's saying "they don't know anything", but still do what they ask because the alternative is far from pleasant. Denial is one thing, not listening and being thrown into quarantine, especially the second and final time, is something else entirely.
Imagine: You're eating food prepared by a cook who never washed his hands all his life.
Just imagine. 😷
Shudders... :S
Lol tell that to middle ages kitchen staff gounlimited.to/rva8ie74xyd9/Woohoney.mp4
bud, you've eaten in a restaurant before. guaranteed youve eaten fecal matter from someone. humans are dirty. what you don't know won't kill you lol
snicker doodles666 oh god 🤢
It was pretty common before we understood bacteria and viruses.
Cup of coffee and weird history upload.. This quarantine malarkey isn't so bad
I'm stuck in Italy and drinking tea, going mad, etc
Thomas Heurlin dang that sucks
@@Sw1ss_M1ss The police isn't too kind to me, I have been stopped and asked for papers several times, most likely because I stand out as I am atleast two heads taller than most and have according to them, blonde hair. I do love the Italian hospitality of some, but recently the elderly in question seem more on edge and rather grumpy
Out here in the country I spend a lot of time outside, painting, yardwork, etc. Its nice having the roads clear and the stores fairly empty.... as we destroy ourselves and our economy over a cold.
Robert Bell "Over a cold"? Karma has a way of educating sometimes
Tbh I never heard this, but thank you! I am in love with history especially this narrator and his sarcastic remarks. My 8th grade history teacher ruined history for me.. So I'm glad I found this channel
When I found out the details of Mary Mallon's case and her situation, I could easily see why she would be so resistant to doctors, at least in the beginning. More then that though, I found myself thinking it was really just a case of extreme denial on her part. People can rationalize anything - they don't necessarily need solid reasoning or proof. Being already so disadvantaged as she was, and how easily people could fall ill and die in those earlier days of medicine, It wouldn't be hard for Mary to justify her actions.
That said, even if she didn't believe (or really didn't want to believe) that she was the cause of the all the sickness and death around her, Mary's complete refusal to cooperate on even the simplest of levels with authorities really was her own undoing. If she had simply to taken better care of her hygene (which I can't imagine she didn't know about at this point thanks to doctors) then she might have kept her freedom even despite working as a cook again. Maybe it was part of her denial; a way to prove to herself that she didn't doctors' guild lines, that she was fine and none of tho typhoid outbreaks were not her fault. Ultimately though, it doesn't really matter what her reasoning was; in the end, as much as her treatment may have been unfair and even cruel, Mary's actions really didn't give authorities much choice.
I think she was a victum of both her own attitudes and a new developing branch of science.
Oh she got what she deserved alright, she chose her own well-being over the health of everyone around her, and she moved around a lot.
She most definitely got what she deserved. Her actions bore striking resemblance to a serial killer.
Shroom Tea I rest my case.
@Tea drinker The fact that she changed her name so often even before the authorities got involved shows me that she knew something was up. And yet, she blatantly disregarded the ONE instruction the doctors gave to her. She is absolutely guilty.
@@magiv4205 thank you exactly the hag deserved so much worse
Shallow analysis. Over one hundred years ago. An uneducated woman that struggled to support herself. Germ theory was relatively unknown. This woman would have thought she was healthy, so considered it impossible to transmit a disease. I bet the experts and authorities bullied her like hell and she did everything to avoid them. The authorities could have set up a situation where they provided her a house and generous income in exchange for hygiene education and they would have achieved far more. No one poor in those times had much chance in those days in the way of justice or fairness and most would have avoided anyone with power if at all possible.
This situation arose due to the authorities not even attempting to be fair and kind. They had power and they used it. The outcome was not good for anyone.
@Kazzana Benefit of the doubt, she has none. It is not hard to see the consequence of your actions. She knew exactly what she was doing.
You don't need to understand Newton's laws of motion or the theory of gravity to conclude that people die when you push them off cliffs.
"What I feel fine. I couldn't give someone else a disease" pretty much sums up the way people think today
How much responsibility do you take, ensuring your body is healthy and can fight off infection? I see plenty with lifestyle comorbidities asking others to risk their health and taking a drug is always a risk. I cannot decide others choices of lifestyle that is the biggest contributed to adverse outcomes, yet these same folk are asking everyone to risk their own health. I think people today need to do a great deal more thinking and reading for themselves, instead of parroting phrases they hear on mainstream media. The issues are complex. Question any source of information that does not link the data for verification;
Doing things for the greater good has not played out well in history. Millions died for that experiment last century. Careful what freedoms you give up for perceived safety.
No, don't think that is true. People were very cooperative for a long time, most of which was unnecessary. Those most at risk were the ones who needed to protect themselves, not everyone and especially not children. What was done to children was harmful and inexcusable.
@@joycegreer9391 Yea, that's bullcrap. There has been a conservative covid denial movement in this country from the beginning. It wasn't a disease that just hit high risk, although they were the worst hit and there are a lot of people who were perfectly healthy at the start and now have long covid.
@@kazzana9013 45% of the US have comorbidities so you can shove it. Smooth brains such as yourself aren't qualified to parse information.
@@Nico-hs4rt "There has been a conservative covid denial movement in this country from the beginning."
No, THAT is BS. No one ever denied the existence and severity of COVID. Also no one said only those at high risk would get COVID.
Children were greatly harmed by the restrictions put on them, not by COVID.
I think you can both feel sympathy for Typhoid Mary and feel that she got what she deserved. Her obstinance and refusal to protect others forced the authorities hand. One has to wonder how different her life might have turned out if she had elected to have the surgery or simply observed simple procedures like washing her hands and being much more sanitary. It's a sad tale that has many parallels to our current time. How difficult is it to wash your hands? How difficult is it to wear a mask? Not at all. Some of us suffer severe breathing issues (myself included). The mask has never been a hinderance and asthma is an excuse. Many people live in denial and/or simply don't like to be told what to do. Mary is a perfect example.
The big difference between then and now is that he science is much more accurate today.
I dont feel bad for her at all. She didnt care at all about spreading it to other people. Shes a selfish person.
Still, does that deserve what is essentially life imprisonment?
Hand washing was a fairly novel idea at the time, and how would you react if you were accused of unintentionally infecting your employers? It's possible cooking was the only way she knew to make money
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 Yes, because some people stop, only when they are stopped.
Mary was stopped, lives were saved. Yes, those stubborn, selfish people exist, it doesn't matter how many people suffer because of them. In fact, I think she's suspect for NPD.
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 She wasn't imprisoned for life the first time. She was released but she just couldn't stop spreading the typhoid around, could she? Even to the maternity ward! She was a cook at a hospital FFS. I wouldn't even bother with a life imprisonment. There are perfectly good walls and guns going to waste.
Her ego and pride put so many people at risk.
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She killed three people, that we know of. She would have gone on to kill more if not imprisoned. That warrants life imprisonment.
While the first death could be justifiably called an accident the other two would be at least negligent homicide. Any notion that she was just ignorant is shown false by her behavior. She was told what to do to prevent spreading typhoid, she refused to do it. She constantly changed jobs and her name to avoid attention. This is not the behavior of an honest but ignorant person, it is the behavior of someone who is knowingly endangering others and simply does not care.
The hijack animation was too funny 😂😂😂😂
Wow, she must have thought everyone was crazy. Or just EXTREMELY selfish.
Kinda like anti-vaxxers today
She assumed that they were treating her like that because she was an Irish immigrant. At the time, they were treated terribly. It’s kind of sad.
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Exactly! Omg the amount of blame being put on her is unreal.
Typhoid was something she saw daily as she was a poor, uneducated, Irish woman.
It was weird in wealthy households but daily life to the poor.
To her it would have been as weird as blaming her for the weather
Probably both.
I do feel some sympathy for Mary. She was trying to protect her livelihood and freedom. However I also find it astounding and troubleshooting that she didn't exhibit any compassion for the people she was infecting.
She knew she was infected or she would’ve kept changing her name. Plus she knew that everyone got sick that was around her
No, she more likely just wanted to avoid authority as interactions would likely have not been good for most poor folk in those times.
@@kazzana9013 There's something wrong with you
@@2Bad4YOUuu No, I was merely trying to imagine what it would have been like to survive in those times, considering the level of education and a very tiered society.
I doubt if she was evil, just simply uneducated, living in a society where you could easily stave if you did not fight for survival.
*Alternative title* : The importance of washing your hands and self-isolating
I am a relation to Mary Mallon (last name still Mallon). The story is a lot more complicated than it sounds. Uneducated and desperate make people do stupid things. When you have no symptoms it is not unreasonable to be hesitant to believe that one person can effect so many people in such a horrible way.
I'm so happy and relieved to know after she was isolated in an island, she found her own happiness to help others. By making others happy, having good friends and a job as a nurse.
She demonstrated with her own behavior that she was not to be trusted. I'm surprised that she wasn't confined to a psych facility. BTW, this reminds me of an episode of Naked City that I saw back around 1963 about a young woman who escaped from quarantine on a similar island in NYC. She carried a tropical disease that only affected people of a certain blood type. I wonder if they based their story on this.
Mary most likely didn’t understand her condition and obviously didn’t believe there was anything wrong with her. However, she had to be controlled and isolated. A sad situation for her.
Today she would be a MAGA lover and anti vaxxer for sure 😂
I feel bad for her, but it is disconcerting that she kept ignoring the science. The Irish were treated badly during the time and may have colored her refusal to listen and cooperate.
I would die in quarantine if I didn’t have your videos. Thank you for keeping everybody entertained. 💕
She refused to the one stipulation, not to cook for others, that would mean she was allowed to freely go about living her life; she was the architect of her own incarceration.
And people like her always wonder why life is so hard. =_=
I dont know why, but the way you talk about these subjects just makes me so... fascinated
Back in the early days of office computer networking, I was hired to network one department's computers for the first time. I distinctly remember how offended some people were when I checked their computers for viruses. It was as if I were accusing them of being personally "unclean". I can only imagine how Mary felt back in those days when strange men with stories of invisible bacteria lurking in her perfectly healthy body accused Mary of making people sick with her delicious, nutritious food -- you don't get kept on to cook for wealthy families unless you're good at your job. She lacked the capacity or education or both to understand what they were telling her and cooking was her only source of income and pride. What a mess.
Imagine being known as the typhoid woman in the history books😂
At least she's known.
@@Hitsugix for what hhh it's better nobody knows.
@@babishak.b3001 well we could learn from it, so history hopefully doesn't repeat itself
@@yachiyous9110 ok
@@yachiyous9110 humans are stupid. Our history repeats itself
If you haven't already Elizabeth Bathory aka The Blood Countess
5:31 After the foot chase did she quickly and repeatedly smack an old bald man on the top of his head?
Benny Hill fan?😜🤭😁
😀Loved those old Benny Hill shows!😂
I remember watching a video about a whole family dying from E. coli poisoning form the food their maid/cook severed, she wouldn’t wash her hands and on a few occasions she’d scratch a butt and not just the cheeks🤮 I think it was in the 1800’s - early 1900’s too
My aunt wrote and performed a one woman play called Typhoid Mary which gave me a lot of sympathy for her and her infamous place in history
An elderly physician at the Roosevelt Hospital (Columbia, New York) circa 1905 habitually diagnosed early typhoid by means of a detailed manual examination of the tongue. He often turned out, weeks later, to be right. Lewis Thomas, in "The Youngest Science," says he was a more productive carrier than Typhoid Mary.
My jaw literally dropped when you said she didn't wash her hands before handling food. Lol
It wasn't well understood then that germs were a problem. It took some time before the wider population started to adopt hygiene practices.
Typhoid Mary be like :
I gotta 99 jobs and hand washing ain't one 😂
Changing names, resisting investigation she was a well planned criminal bro. But a part of me pitied her too because lifetime quarantine is huge punishment she never learned tho.
I loved the video. It's much more than the biology textbooks would tell.
Just like a murderer spending lifetime imprisonment, she needed to be incarcerated for the continued safety of the public.
It wouldn’t be in a biology textbook as much as history. I learned about her in history class
Covid Karens are watching this right now and saying they agree with her refusing to self-isolate and test.
Some people saw her as an inspirational figure, I guess. 🤷
More like Corona Lee
I now this sounds ignorant, but I am unfamiliar w the term COVID-Karen & several comments were made about her. Who is Karen?
Amen yes ma am
@@tamararutland-mills9530 someone enjoying the luck of being born a human that they could avoid natural selection, someone that's willing to fight their way into Walmart, assault a worker, and disregard basic requirements because their ego and ignorance outweighs their common sense and humanity.
You really went all out for the visuals on this one! I didn’t expect to see guest appearances from Rosalind Russell, Benny Hill, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and Francis Farmer!
Too late now, but The excellent TV series “The Knick“ covered the story of Typhoid Mary over a few episodes. The production values were considerably better than the cheesy production you had to use this time. Always great well researched info, thanks.
If she cause 50 fatalities as it is speculated, i think most people would get a life sentence of some sort. Also not complying to the restrictions from the government also would not help her case.
No, 50 (at minimum) infections. Only three fatalities. Still, three kills should have gotten her the death sentence.
@@calebleland8390 totally agree
Caleb Leland Fucking why, it’s not murder, it is at most manslaughter.
Who kills someone for manslaughter.
Why would she listen to the people who locked her up on an island?
She was reprimanded by a competent judicial court already for being a threat to public health by indulging in unsanitary occupational standard of cooking she was lucky court was still lenient to let her go her way on her promise to the distraught of victims and families.
Mary is a really accurate example of today's society
Yes, agreed, the vaccinated can now be symptom free, get infected and transmit the disease. Those that have not been vaccinated will probably get symptoms and stay home until they recover. What a dilemma for the virtue signalers.
Keep in mind, Mary was struggling to make a living, uneducated and no doubt mistrusting of authorities. Today folk have the education, but prefer just to do whatever mainstream media and authorities dictate without consideration of the consequences. Folk today do not want to take responsibility for their own lives and decisions, but would rather leave the bothersome stuff to someone else. There will be consequences for not doing one's own research.
No, that is not true.
@@joycegreer9391 people refuse to wash their hands because it "enhances immunity" (BS) and don't scrub their bodies because of the "trickle effect" (BS)... so yeah pretty true.
I wash my hands religiously and I never get sick, and I scrub every part of my body too.
@@enochia Well I hope most people are not as filthy nasty as her. I always wash my hands a lot. I'm very particular about clean hands, no nastiness and germs.
Intriguing. Thanks for the history lesson today 👍🏼
If she started changing her name every time there was an outbreak BEFORE doctors started telling her she was giving it to everyone, then she 100% knew and just didn't want to take responsibility for it.
I don't feel any sympathy. She was told by so many medical professionals that she was endangering lives. She was treated as badly as she was because she was so dishonest and kept making people sick.
The lack of personal hygiene is still common especially in 3rd world countries where toilet paper or hot water is not available to the poor. People who have immigrated from those countries have infected their employers who hire them to cook or do other household duties.
If anyone wants to learn more about this case, check out Stephanie Harlowe's video about Mary!
It was a great video. It actually portrays as more of a human.
Reminds me of people here who tested positive for COVID19 but still refused to isolate.
Now that I haven’t heard
Imagine not giving a fuck about the virus and having your followers believe it's a hoax while 200,000 people are already 6 feet under.
Covid Karen's
Yup imagine not staying by yourself while you have a common cold virus.
It's not our fault you don't take care of your health
@@gypsierose3611 Stupid statement. Moronic
My how history repeats itself.
The fact that she kept changing locations and changing your name just goes to show she was being deceptive. And also shows she was trying to avoid them proving that she was in fact the spreader.
They don't mention that after she died they found a journal of hers where it stated that not only did she know that she had this condition she was infecting people on purpose.
where can i find a source for this
Ah yes based on absolutely nothing. Nice fake fact
Cleanliness aside, I feel for her. And through her "indignities" she taught the world a lot.
Nuff said.
The little cell thing with the ski mask and gun made me chuckle lol
I believe she knew not wanting to get tested and fighting. She was just trying to survive. If she was pegged having typhoid she was guaranteed to be tossed out into the gutter.
She belonged in prison, so I don't feel bad for her for being quarantined until she died. She was given a second chance but continued to cook food and infect others, she can't lie and say she didn't know she has the virus.
about the handwashing thing: do y'all know how HARSH soaps were back then?? and how many people washed their hands before handling food? she probably wasn't the ONLY person who didn't wash her hands all the time.
Difference is other people weren't infected. If you are told to do something by the authorities and your freedom is on the line, do it, no matter how hard it is because the alternative is worse.
@@pkj2148 No, that is not true. If you do everything you are ordered to do by authorities you will end up with no freedom at all. Instead of acting like tyrants, they could have come up with a solution to achieve their ends.
Imagine your entire life’s legacy is to be immortalized for spreading horrible disease. 🦠
My mom used to call me typhoid Mary when I wouldn't wash my hands
Well, it's not as though she didn't deserve it after deliberately defying health officials and choosing to live in either arrogance or denial.
She died when my grandmother was almost 4 years old. R.I.P. Grandma Pine.
There was no safety net for her to fall back on at the time. To quit working at that time was a starvation death sentence.
She was given a chance to live her life, but she refused to do the one thing she was asked. The cooking at the hospital gig was probably what really caused her lifetime confinement. Since she would not listen to what she was told (no cooking for people), I think she deserved her confinement. She directly caused the death of at least three people.
History does have a way of repeating itself 🤔
Because no one is prepared to learn from it
@@rhondawhatley3310 Or very few....😣
GDI Mary. She knew what she was doing actually. Criminal.
1900s: **didn't wash hands**
2020: **doesn't wear mask**
Ah yes, the immortal Karen.
Imagine being immune to a disease but being quarantine the rest of your life for said disease.
I took a course in my college which was called public health law in fall 2019 right before covid-19 lol. Passed that class with a 100%. Thypoid Mary was an interesting topic.
What a tragic story for her and all the people she encountered. So sad!
The word "quarantine" used to shake me in my boots when I learned about it. Kinda funny looking back on it now
Why did she fight so hard to NOT cooperate?!?!
That's what narcissists do 😕
I unfortunately know a few
I felt bad for her during the first quarantine she endured, but I had no sympathy for her second quarantining. She was warned, she decided to do the same thing anyway, she faced the consequence, they gave her a second chance and she spat at it. There's no excuse for that, even if she didn't believe in the new science of germs and handwashing she could easily believe if she was punished once she would be again and did it anyway.
I was reading about Anna Swan the Nova Scotia Giantess today since it is her wedding anniversary. I searched on UA-cam and only found one video about her. I found it strange because I had never heard of her before today but from the story I read about her amazing life I thought there would be a lot. If you could do a video about her and her husband I would really enjoy it.
idk why i keep rewatching this video. very well done, as always.
A 3 hour foot race?lol mary was like..oh hell no y'all aint catchin me That easy 🤣🤣👏👏🏃🏻♀🤣
Shes more like a bioweapon to me
Umbrella corp wants to know her location
I feel bad that she had to live like that but really it's on her. The fact that she kept changing her name and still worked as a cook even though they said not to and provided evidence shows she knew but didn't care. those people died for no reason. she had the chance the live freely and blew it.
Although typhoid Mary was a carrier, she never became asymptomatic. Mary left a trail of sickness and death where ever she was employed as a cook. What they fail to reveal in this story is that Mary had a nasty habit of scratching and digging in her rectum with her bare hands while handling food. She never washed her hands afterwards , which is how she contaminated the food she prepared and served to her employers and their families.
Gross!
I'm surprised her employers didn't recognize her, with Mary being in the news and all.
Do a weird history on the Jim Crow laws
Yeah she got what she deserved. She was indifferent to everyone she came in contact with. And because she didn’t care about anybody else but herself she got what she deserved
Chased with a rolling pin or a meat fork...
Shows fork skewering a hot dog 🤣
I think she knew she had typhoid. Her changing her name, going back to cooking and not receiving care all seems very suspicious to me.
She broke her promise and went back to working as a cook, in a maternity hospital no less! 😳 😱 😢. I’m here trying to be sympathetic and advocate for her human rights, but what about the human rights of the people that died due to her negligence?
Her diaries were found and analysed. In them she wrote that she was doing it on purpose, her own personal power trip infecting rich ppl.
Kara Nina where can I read her diaries?
@@louannlasher3748 They're not public. It is true that until after 1910 she didn't believe she was a carrier, but the endless cycle of working a badly paid job she disliked like being a washer woman, followed by the switch to her far better paid position as a cook along with strong denial of her carrier status, followed by an outbreak of the illness, followed by denial and a sudden change of location to start said cycle with a new identity all over...all that messed up her sanity.
She took some jobs hoping the people would get it, other times she was back in denial...not a healthy way to live. Also, if you had it ppl usually became healthy again afterwards so the fact that it just didn't end, ever, was hard for people of that time to understand. So most of the time, when noone got sick around her for some time, she thought it was finally over and then she took a job as a cook and suddenly it started again. Other times she just hated her employers and wanted them to catch it, but at that point her situation had shaken up her sanity.
But yeah, her diaries aren't open to the public and their content can't be published.
Well then how did you read them?
i support her, fuck the rich
@@jazmynbrown7373 I didn't, I just work for a uni and recently the mental health of carriers has been a big topic, so typhoid Mary came up as the first well known example.
Happy Good Friday Everyone.
Hope you all are doing fine out there.🎈
Same to you
You should do a episode on Catherine The Great!
A video alone needs made about this 3 hour foot chase!!!!!!
Like is this a record time for a foot chase?
One doesn't need to know about germs to want to keep one's hands clean.
Dirty hands being fuckin' nasty should be reason enough.
Cookin' up some typhoid.
Lol