There it is…
I’ve been waiting for this! Someone uncovered a manuscript – actually, just a piece of paper stuck in a book – with details of 22 peasant survivors of the Black Death.
The WHO says survivors are 30% to 60% for bubonic plague (though the pneumonic form is 100% fatal if untreated). That’s got to be a lot of people who were sick and got better; I’ve always been curious why we hear so little about them.
According to this document, the quickest recovery was a week and the longest nine weeks, but they all came back to working the land.
Picture is Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Triumph of Death (and not AI slop for once).
May 27, 2026 — 7:48 pm
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