The best of all times
Mar. 10th, 2020 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timelets“For some reason or other – perhaps because of the sudden change from excessive cold to excessive heat – the hard winter was followed by an unhealthy summer. Plague was rife, and neither human beings nor animals were immune. The disease was incurable, its ravages appalling, and in despair of understanding its cause or of foreseeing its end the Senate ordered a consultation of the Sybilline Books. ”
--- Titus Livy. “The Early History of Rome.”
The ancients would be astonished that a man in his 70-s could still be concerned about a 10% chance of dying from a plague.
upd: the real plague of our age is low birth rates.
