Posted by mookster
Dangerous yes, but not deadly nowadays thanks to modern medicine - it's one of those diseases that strikes fear into peoples hearts a lot but is very treatable nowadays, as I'm sure you know from experience.
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Early in the COVID thing I telling people: "I survived the Black Death. This COVID stuff doesn't scare me."
Although I did conveniently leave of the little detail of how bubonic plaque is easily treated with antibiotics.
Sidebar: that statement about surviving the Black Death is actually a paraphrasing of a statement by a guy I knew named David Fishel. A guy came in David's deli pulled out a gun and demanded money. David drew his own gun and went into action. David used to say: "I survived Auschwitz. These guys don't scare me."
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