Misinformation in history - Evie Cantú

 The black death is a well-known pandemic taking place in medieval European times. It’s been a topic that I have found incredibly interesting for a long time, when I was younger my dad used to play lots of history documentaries, I think that there was probably one on the black death and that’s what started my fascination. So because of this fascination, I obviously took the Black Death class here at CNU last school year, and I found out so many things that left me completely shocked because there are some misconceptions about the black death that are still coming up in media today. I think most notably would be the fact that plague doctors, the guys who wear those beaks, did not ACTUALLY exist during the pandemic. I found this absolutely insane because I am so sure that I have seen at least ONE documentary where plague doctors are supposedly a thing during the pandemic. Another factor, the whole rats started the pandemic and that it was actually the bubonic plague- also untrue. Unless it was some super crazy version of modern day bubonic plague, it can’t be bubonic plague because bubonic plague doesn’t spread person to person, and if a disease is killing off almost 50% of a whole continent in less than 2 years, it makes no sense to not be human to human transmission.  There is another type of plague that does spread person to person, but it does not produce the swellings that were seen during the pandemic. If you really dig into the history, as well as read the primary sources from people who actually lived and experienced the pandemic- there is a lot of unanswered questions.

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