Oh Skippy, Covid 19 and BLM will disappear after the November elections, they have nothing to do with comets. Rather than comets, maybe you should have studied a history of commerce, you would find that the Black plauge was brought by sailors from India(?) to Europe because the Muslims had closed off the overland route, and because the trip was quicker by ship instead of the infected dying on the way back, they brought it home. This isn't "The Day of The Triffids"
Funny, I don't remember seeing your Microbiology degree hanging on the wall. I'm going to go ahead and stick with the published, peer-reviewed articles on the subject. Thank you for your input though.
As far as the Black Plague, you couldn't even get this correct. The accepted theory is that it came from the Sea of Azov, and this explains the incubation period between that location and the Italian city-states.
I offered one seriously considered theory about the Black Plague, and one which is not ruled out by the now-accepted origin in the port of Tana due to a biological warfare attack by the Golden Horde Khanate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732530/
Abstract
On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack. This is not only of great historical interest but also relevant to current efforts to evaluate the threat of military or terrorist use of biological weapons. Based on published translations of the de’ Mussi manuscript, other 14th-century accounts of the Black Death, and secondary scholarly literature, I conclude that the claim that biological warfare was used at Caffa is plausible and provides the best explanation of the entry of plague into the city. This theory is consistent with the technology of the times and with contemporary notions of disease causation; however, the entry of plague into Europe from the Crimea likely occurred independent of this event.
Your theory about India and the Muslims is rather antiquated, but it was one of the leading theories. The BioWarfare attack by the Khanate is now the accepted narrative. Here's a map:
See, the Black Plague originated in China. This is confirmed in three ways: Microchemical analysis, genetic sequencing, and assembled historical documentation.
The Golden Horde was devastated by the Plague. At the time, they were having a spat with the Genovese, and had laid siege to the town of Tana. Tana was sanctioned by the Khan as a trading port, but from time to time, the Khanate would lay siege to the landward side, which the Genovese didn't care much about, since they had control of the seaport and sea lanes.
Because the Khanate could not both siege Tana, and maintain control in the rapidly deteriorating situation in the East (China), they decided to break the siege. Before they left, they used catapults and onagers to hurl infected bodies into the town.
The Plague certainly made its way back to Genoa in 1346, since the trip from Tana, to Caffa, to Genoa is well under a year long, but the first recorded cases in Europe are 1348. As you can see, it's simultaneous across the European Med basin ports.
It's very interesting that the most important single event which led to the rise of Europe, was a Bio-warfare attack from China.
You see, in Medieval times, there were 3 Estates. Clergy, Nobles, and Peasants. The Peasants were protected by the Nobles, who did all of the fighting (Knights, Squires, and their Lords; the Counts, Dukes, Marquesses, Barons, and Royalty). There were so many Peasants, that it was an actual liability to have too many infesting your land. Furthermore, if Peasants ran away due to harsh treatment (see, everyone was a slave back then, and in much worse conditions than the Antebellum South... note that...), the neighboring Lords would torture them or burn them at the stake for abandoning their Lord. See, every Lord had an interest to keep the Peasants in line, and on their Estate.
But the Plague killed so many people, that the value of Labor sky-rocketed. Now, if you ran away to a neighboring Fief, the Lord there wouldn't send you back or burn you, he'd pay you higher wages! Not only that, there was a Livestock glut on the market, and the cost of meat plummeted. Now, back then, Peasants might only get meat twice a week in good times, and maybe for not months at a time in winter (you need your livestock alive to keep your hovel warm). But now there are Cows and Pigs wandering the countryside, gorging on the grass and truffles in fallow fields (no one to work them), and everyone has meat 7 days a week, at least once a day.
The resultant nutritional improvement certainly had an impact on the cognitive function of a huge portion of the population. Indeed, after the Plagues let up some (in the 1400s), there is a veritable flowering of creativity and invention in Europe. This is known as the Renaissance.
Not only that, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is informed by this period. You listen to the story, and wonder why Jack would even consider trading a cow for two beans. To our minds, it's because Jack is a fool. The fact is, in the late 14th century, a cow might only be worth a handful of beans. Certainly two or three beans is low, but not out of the realm of possibility during a time when there are 3 cows for every human being in some towns. So it's not a ridiculous oversight on Jack's part: it's simply a bad deal. Instead of 3 beans, he should have gotten 30.
A final note I'd like to touch on: The Black Plague returned again and again until the mid-1600s. Over the course of 300 years, every single genetic line in Europe was touched. That means while the initial Plague only killed 1/3 of the population (only!), that over 300 years, EVERYONE had to either survive the plague, or their genetic line was ended.
What this means is that when Europeans really began encountering the Americas in the 16th Century, they were immune to a host of diseases, meanwhile the Indians were wiped out by a combination of several diseases that Europeans had been selected out of over hundreds of years. Indeed, the Hemorrhagic fevers (unrelated to Plague bacteria) were viruses not unlike HIV. Thus, the nearly 20% immunity of Europeans to HIV itself, higher in some Nordic countries, who burned with viral hemorrhagic fevers well into the 18th century.
There are many reasons why Europe rose to dominate the Globe, and literally every single human system of arrangement (government, society, family, culture) is European. Chinese Communist society is ALL derived from Europe, except the part that causes harm: the dog-eating, wet markets, the lack of empathy, the compliance with force and authority, to name a few. But everything that makes China the rich PRC, is European.
The fact that Europeans invented literally everything in modern life is a result of many factors, but none more important than a Bio-Terror attack by East Asians (which would become modern Chinese) on the port of Tana, in 1346.
I would strongly recommend this documentary, available on Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/Europe-Brink-...dp/B01M27CU26/
It's of Scholarly quality, and not un-entertaining, either. It lays it all down in a coursework format, presented by a credible host, Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D.
This Doc gives all of the latest accepted theoretical and scientific information that we know about The Black Death.