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A review by napkins
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall
5.0
AMERICANS AS A SOCIETY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING IN 100 YEARS
It was....uh...quite the time listening to this in 2022, with such lines as "He [the scientist trying to push an early vaccine and who has the most understanding of Y. pestis] could only watch as men with no scientific understanding shaped public opinion against him" and "He believed in a future where scientists had rendered the concept of infectious diseases moot, saving millions of innocent lives; instead he had to face a present where politics mattered more than honesty and ignorance more than medicine".
Though aside from having to pause more than a few times to just stare into space at how the social aspects just repeated (complete with racism, xenophobia, "but the economy", "plague is just a hoax, there's no real danger", and such), it really was fascinating. There were a number of timing and natural factors that kept it from being more widespread, but really we should all appreciate Rupert Blue a lot more and hate power play politics for stopping him so many times.
Also don't play with squirrels.
It was....uh...quite the time listening to this in 2022, with such lines as "He [the scientist trying to push an early vaccine and who has the most understanding of Y. pestis] could only watch as men with no scientific understanding shaped public opinion against him" and "He believed in a future where scientists had rendered the concept of infectious diseases moot, saving millions of innocent lives; instead he had to face a present where politics mattered more than honesty and ignorance more than medicine".
Though aside from having to pause more than a few times to just stare into space at how the social aspects just repeated (complete with racism, xenophobia, "but the economy", "plague is just a hoax, there's no real danger", and such), it really was fascinating. There were a number of timing and natural factors that kept it from being more widespread, but really we should all appreciate Rupert Blue a lot more and hate power play politics for stopping him so many times.
Also don't play with squirrels.