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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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brb said:
I used to think the Great Fire of London wiped out the Great Plague, but apparently that's not true either!? Although be it the fire would have destroyed the unsanitary conditions they lived in at the time.
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The great plague happened several times mate. I think the first time was in the 14th century. It was called the Black Death. Then came back a couple of hundred years later in 1665.

Regarding the nursery rhyme the reference to "ring of roses" I don't know the origin but it refers to the garlands of flowers ppl would hang outside to take away the stench from the smell of the puss filled infection and of the corpses which nobody wanted to go near so were often left to rot.
 
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aberdude said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/science/coronavirus-vaccine-trials.html
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Not sure that I agree with the companies being too open. I was already aware that on the AstraZeneca trial, that one person has already had a bad reaction. As far has I know, no details were released other than it is likely that it fell into one of three major categories. To release that sort of detail would just start scare mongering. The reality of the situation tells us, that things will go wrong, that's advancement, but at least we know something went wrong, and that they took a step back and you start again.
 
Treble said:
The great plague happened several times mate. I think the first time was in the 14th century. It was called the Black Death. Then came back a couple of hundred years later in 1665.

Regarding the nursery rhyme the reference to "ring of roses" I don't know the origin but it refers to the garlands of flowers ppl would hang outside to take away the stench from the smell of the puss filled infection and of the corpses which nobody wanted to go near so were often left to rot.
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Bad smell in the winter month's where flowers don't grow en....... Or maybe they used Lavender or sativa now that would smell nice dried out together..... Better than any old rotten corpse for sure
 
FosseFilberto said:
It's the same thing mate ... the Great Plague originated in London in 1665 and the local outbreak in Eyam was in the same year caused by those garments from London... to stop it spreading they closed themselves off until it claimed it's toll.
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A tailor ordered a bundle of cloth because he thought he could turn a profit.

Anyway my reason for posting the story was because I found the attitude of the villagers (considering they knew nothing of social distancing or quarantining) quite interesting compared to the attitude of quite a few morons who haven't got a clue today.

Eyam is not that far from Oldham.
 
brb said:
Not sure that I agree with the companies being too open. I was already aware that on the AstraZeneca trial, that one person has already had a bad reaction. As far has I know, no details were released other than it is likely that it fell into one of three major categories. To release that sort of detail would just start scare mongering. The reality of the situation tells us, that things will go wrong, that's advancement, but at least we know something went wrong, and that they took a step back and you start again.
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I didn't expect you to agree with me dude..... Tiz par for the course.

Why have you got an issue about transparency....., surely you would want to know what is in said vaccine and what possible side effects it could have.
 
Treble said:
A tailor ordered a bundle of cloth because he thought he could turn a profit.

Anyway my reason for posting the story was because I found the attitude of the villagers (considering they knew nothing of social distancing or quarantining) quite interesting compared to the attitude of quite a few morons who haven't got a clue today.

Eyam is not that far from Oldham.
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They also feared the church and a barbaric crown ...... So putting the fear of hell into an uneducated people would have been easier than it is today.
 
Treble said:
The great plague happened several times mate. I think the first time was in the 14th century. It was called the Black Death. Then came back a couple of hundred years later in 1665.

Regarding the nursery rhyme the reference to "ring of roses" I don't know the origin but it refers to the garlands of flowers ppl would hang outside to take away the stench from the smell of the puss filled infection and of the corpses which nobody wanted to go near so were often left to rot.
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541-546AD was worse, 2 years of no sunlight followed by the Bubonic plague which killed 100 million people.
 
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aberdude said:
They also feared the church and a barbaric crown ...... So putting the fear of hell into an uneducated people would have been easier than it is today.
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Yeh a lot of people thought they were enduring God's wrath for the sins of the world. Groups would gather and flagellate (great word, horrible practise). But ironically that sort of mass hysteria scared the **** out of the Church and they wanted no part of it.
 
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Treble said:
Yeh a lot of people thought they were enduring God's wrath for the sins of the world. Groups would gather and flagellate (great word, horrible practise). But ironically that sort of mass hysteria scared the **** out of the Church and they wanted no part of it.
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Really that's not like the church 2 distance itself from something it could claim for its own needs...... Eg running with said fear converting more and selling em passes to the VIP lounge in heaven
 
aberdude said:
Really that's not like the church 2 distance itself from something it could claim for its own needs...... Eg running with said fear converting more and selling em passes to the VIP lounge in heaven
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I can't claim any expert view on it tbh Aber, I watched it all on a BBC4 documentary last night.
 
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