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Old 10-16-2014, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by nitehawk View Post
Black plague reduced the population by 30-50% After plague population much better off - two people had 5 children -- just natures way of population control
Never ceases to amaze what some people think and say ..."...after plague, population much better off."

To put the 30-50% into context, this pandemic killed somewhere between 100-200 million people during the Middle Ages. In addition, total world population was then about 375 million. Today it's about 7 billion, roughly 20x larger.

So I guess if you were amongst the 30-50% that died from the Black Death aka Bubonic Plague, you were then NOT better off?