The spreading of the Black Plague is a cover up by academia. I watched a Great Courses lecture series on it, and the facts do not match the explanations we've been given. We're told it was spread by fleas, which does not explain how it spread so rapidly like a brushfire throughout Europe. People far away from an outbreak were informed it was coming, and they tried to escape to the countryside to survive in isolation, and it still got to them. Britain, as an island that could isolate itself, got wrecked. It killed 50% of the population of Europe and totally jumbled the class stratification (peasants becoming clergy, etc), yet the pope and his court in Avignon remained unaffected. It has the indisputable appearence of a controlled bioweapon depopulation event.
The spreading of the Black Plague is a cover up by academia. I watched a Great Courses lecture series on it, and the facts do not match the explanations we've been given. We're told it was spread by fleas, which does not explain how it spread so rapidly like a brushfire throughout Europe. People far away from an outbreak were informed it was coming, and they tried to escape to the countryside to survive in isolation, and it still got to them. Britain, as an island that could isolate itself, got wrecked. It killed 50% of the population of Europe and totally jumbled the class stratification (peasants becoming clergy, etc), yet the pope and his court in Avignon remained unaffected. It has the indisputable appearence of a controlled bioweapon depopulation event.