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#Spooktober2020 Day 30: Plague

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My mouth was a weapon. One I could aim and fire at anyone. But once. Just once. Too obvious and the authorities would take me down. Shouldering my way through the crowd, I... [ ]

0 0 0 - MIASMA | Robin-Lightz # Synthwave 80s Retro Music

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Named after the medieval theory of noxious air, 0 0 0 draws parallels between horrors of past and present with the latest single MIASMA. MIASMA is free to download through this link: https://nul-nul-nul.bandcamp.com/track/miasma... [ ]

Second Coronavirus Wave Propels European Countries Into Lockdown 2.0

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France, Germany announce lockdowns that will last at least a month. “We no longer have control of the spread of the virus,” Chancellor Merkel warned. [ ]

Alexandre Yersin: Plague Conqueror and White Colonizer

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Michael G. Vann California State University at Sacramento   Alexandre Yersin, who identified the plague bacillus and worked on the vaccine, was a strange and perplexing man. He was also a geni… [ ]

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“The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!” [ ]

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“WATCH: MSNBC's Chuck Todd Asks if Joe Biden is Taking Covid 'Too Seriously' https://t.co/8RzdM5JPxy” [ ]

Archaeologists unearth 'huge number' of sealed Egyptian sarcophagi

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A large collection of unopened sarcophagi has been found in Saqqara, adding to the trove of almost 60 coffins recently discovered at the ancient Egyptian necropolis. [ ]

A Vote Against Pericles is a Vote Against Plague

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N.B. I saw a few threads from the amazing Flint Dibble earlier in the year and invited him to put them together here. Just in time for an epidemic spike, he delivered! –... [ ]

You can now apply to work remotely from the Cayman Islands — if you earn more than $100,000 a year

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The income threshold to work remotely from the Caymans jumps to $150,000 if you're married or in a domestic partnership. [ ]

How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

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As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay. [ ]

The Milan Barber and the Plague : The tragic story of Gian Giacomo Mora

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Milan is a working city, known in the rest of the country for being hectic and modern but in spite of its obvious vocation it can reveal a lot more to anyone who... [ ]

Ellie Rushing on Twitter

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“Walter Wallace Jr., 27, a twin, father, and son, was shot 10 times by police, said his father, Walter Wallace Sr. A video shows Wallace was at least 10 ft away from the officers... [ ]

Ancient Plague Genomes Point to Sources of Outbreaks in Europe After Black Death Pandemic

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By sequencing Yersinia pestis isolates from several 14th to 18th century sites, researchers characterized a Second Plague lineage and proposed a reservoir for it. [ ]

Dargavs- the city of quarantine and dead

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It is for the first time we, the present generation would be hearing the term 'quarantine'. But it was practised some 400 years ago by ancestors in Dargavs village, Russia. The mind-blowing houses... [ ]

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (A fan reading)

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(Contrary to what I said with the last video, with the plague still very much upon us I've decided to bring back 'Tales for the Times', to provide some distraction for those who... [ ]

U.S. hospitals are preparing for the worst-case scenario as COVID-19 surges again — Vox

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Hospitals are making plans to ration care and move patients out of state as their beds fill up. [ ]

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“Video footage shows deserted Paris streets under a strict new 9pm curfew imposed to combat a surge in coronavirus cases. Curfews are being introduced across multiple European countries in an attempt to stop... [ ]

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Over Time, Plague Infections Spread Faster | Microbiology

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From the time of the Black Death, around 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665, epidemics of plague occurred in Europe. Researchers analyzed the transmission... | Microbiology [ ]

Why Did The Plague Doctors Wear These Masks? | Gods and Monsters | Timeline

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Our ancestors blamed disease and illness on demons, sprites and God. They sought cures not in pills or plasters, but in prayer, potions and the paranormal. Tony attempts to recreate a horrifying surgical... [ ]

Egypt reveals 59 ancient coffins found near Saqqara pyramids

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Egypt's tourism and antiquities minster said on Saturday archeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. [ ]

Scott Dworkin on Twitter

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“BREAKING: WH official says masks will continue to not be mandatory at the WH, even after Trump tested positive. Saying it’s a “personal choice.” They won’t even try to protect themselves, they definitely... [ ]

A Tale of Two Epidemics: Mumbai, Bubonic Plague and COVID-19

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Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester, discusses the continuities and disjunctions between the 1896 bubonic plague and COVID-19 in Mumbai, India, in an interview with Pandemic... [ ]

Acceleration of plague outbreaks in the second pandemic

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Epidemics of plague devastated Europe’s population throughout the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Genetic studies of modest numbers of skeletal remains indicate that the causative agent of all these epidemics was the bacterium Yersinia... [ ]

Why Reports of Legionnaires' Disease Are on the Rise in the United States

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Though less common than in the past, Legionella bacteria and other dangerous pathogens still lurk in drinking water [ ]

Secretary Pompeo on Twitter

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“The U.S. is leading the international response to the Rohingya crisis and we join our partners in calling on others to help meet the needs. We will continue to contribute our efforts to... [ ]

Is This a Photograph of Mitch McConnell's Bruised and Discolored Hands?

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became a topic of speculation after photographs seemingly showed his hands looking bruised and discolored. [ ]

Cindy on Twitter

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“絕密視頻流出，時間不詳 染疫死的？處理屍體的軍人沒穿防護服； 秘密處決？又覺得一次性人數太多了； ⋯⋯ https://t.co/fEqfXeUQNG” [ ]

Medieval black death may have sped up because of droplets in the air

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EU shuts door to travel from Canada, lets in Singapore visitors - BNN Bloomberg

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The European Union decided to remove Canada, Tunisia and Georgia from its list of countries whose residents should be allowed to visit the bloc amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to an EU official... [ ]