Re: Do germs cause disease?

In article <a9680d45-56a8-4933-b98d-a6467b5aa2aa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<drceephd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 2, 5:46 pm, "Carole" <hub...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How did the black death of Europe in the middle ages spread and kill
millions ... wasn't it by fleas which lived on rats?

Sorry Carole, I cannot resist giving an answer to this.

Consider that rats and their fleas have always been with us. Why then
would the plague arise, run its course, and disappear when the the
rats and their fleas were still doing their thing?

Why was Nostradamus successful during the plague years by simply
instituting sanitation? He never hunted the rats.

Nostradamus was so "successful" that his wife and two children died of
the plague.

I submit that the rats and their fleas were present before the plague,
during the plague, and after the palgue. We still have the rats
today, but we do not have the plague. Why? The answer is not flea
powder. :)

To find the answer you have to look at the diet and lifestyle of the
times.

Human nutrition was an unknown quantity. The usual fare for the
peasants was "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in
the pot nine days old." These were very malnurished humans.

They were still just as malnourished a year or two later when the
plague had passed. Not to mention long before it arrived. Your
"explanation" explains nothing.

If anyone thinks that the fleas on rats caused the plague, or bed bugs
caused smallpox, explain to me why both still exist today, but the
plague and smallpox are not the vigilant hunters of unwary sheeple
that they can prove scientifically. Show me the tests. Show me the
data. I could care less how many have been poisoned and killed by
vaccines.

Nobody thinks that smallpox was spread by bedbugs. Where DO you get
this stuff?

Plague is still around, of course.

Additionally, a few years ago India had a bout of the plague after a
severe flood. Where has the plague been these 100s of years. Why and
how did the plague resurface in India only to dissapear once again?

It's been around. But floods displace things -- like rats, and their
fleas, bringing them into proximity with humans that would not
otherwise have occurred. Nothing mysterious about it -- except to
Cee, of course.

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