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I congratulate this man for correctly identifying tiktok as a virus.

Thoughty2, keeping alive the stock footage industry in these trying times.

"Hey, do you remember the Black Death?" "Yeah lol" "This is a great conversation"

So I know it's been a while since he uploaded this, but I figure it's better late than never to comment this. He didn't discuss it here, but the Mongols are actually directly responsible (at least in part) for the black death's spread. While besieging Caffa, Khan Jani Berg had already been dealing with an outbreak of the plague himself. So, as any sane Khan would do, he gathered up the infected bodies and catapulted them over Caffa's walls in one of the earliest acts of biological warfare. From there a ship loaded with infected cargo escaped and made its way to Sicily. On top of this, the Mongols also had control of the silk road, which no doubt heavily facilitated the plague's spread

I have a strange feeling that the dancing plague doctor in this video is actually Thoughty2 himself

The rat animations are on point

I can’t be the only one who finds this entire channel genuinely relaxing i feel like family

Have they ever proposed a simple mutation that occurs where it starts pneumonic but then evolves quickly into bubonic so it would spread between people before they really knew they had it.

Imagine dying from the plague delirious from fever having your doctor dressed in a demonic bird costume 😳

Meanwhile in 2695 year: Why Everything We Know About the Corona Virus Is Wrong

You've mastered the art of transition and integration of your content with your sponsors. Bravo. Make hay while the sun shines!❤

I always learn new things watching these videos and the delivery is much easier to listen to and understand. Thanks for a great experience.

Thoughty2’s moustache can save us from any pandemic

I love how you called TikTok a pandemic.

I actually always thought the Black Death was airborne or at least through fluids. Because I always wondered how so many people were getting bit by fleas daily. Now I learn that I was wrong at first but maybe right in the long run lol

Its always a pleasure to watch your videos. Grwat work.

"No animals covered as much ground in those days as we did. " I would like to point out that migrating birds and insects would have us beat on average by a long shot. And also the humble coconut. I do suggest that coconuts migrate.

I kept on saying "humans had fleas" the entire video, and then when Thoughty2 finally got to it, I nodded happily. Yep.

Love this guy.. no bs and or click bait on this channel

Excellent presentation. It is amazing how you cover the most interesting and relevant topics.

Norwegian here. There where rats with fleas on them on a ship that came to our second largest city, Bergen, in 1349. Back then the city was called Bjørgvin. There was even written a book about called ''Det kom et skip til Bjørgvin i 1349'' (There came a ship to Bjørgvin in 1349).

I dare say this man's mustache is magnificent

Great, as always - thanks, mate!

Your videos are the best 🖤

I remember being taught at school 47 years ago that, the Black Death was a combination of, Bubonic, Pneumonic and Septicemic plague and was only thought to be Bubonic because this had the most visible symptoms. It turns out they are all caused by the same bacteria infecting different areas. My teacher was not a fan of blaming the rats even then but admitted he did not have a better explanation.

*As a wise man once said :* _"Only when a mosquito lands lands on your testicles will you realize violence isn't always the answer"._

I’ve always loved rats and I’m glad to see more people talking about their innocence in this matter. Rats make lovely pets and are not dirty at all- I’ve never had the plague, but I have had rats!

Great video very informative

"I am not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens."

What you're saying really hits me. My youngest daughter was breeding the most beautiful rats of all colors and all tempers, even the dumbo rats who are probably the most gentle of all. My point is this I never saw them with flea or lice. Experts at the time told me they are usually not affected by those. What is even more amazing is their is different types of fleas, most of them today are specific to cats and dogs. But yes they were fleas that were specific to humans before, these are perhaps extinct now. Anecdotally circus were paying money for human fleas in the last century, they were getting very rare. Human fleas make very much sense as a vector for the black plague.

Wow! You did an excellent job on this topic. I read Daniel Defoe’s book a Journal of The Plague Year (his grandfather lived during the plague) and it is a terrifying read. I also read where archeologists were puzzled at the lack of rat bodies dating back to that time, so I think it was spread by human fleas.

Great video. Thx!

I need more rats dancing in my life, that was the sweetest dang thing

I would love to have been this guys lecturer at college or uni, just to read this guys essays and assignments. They would be a refreshing read, no doubt.

Very well presented. Thank you.

I love watching your videos and laughing while I learn. Great job bro 🤜 🤛 (fist bump lol)

Original title: Why my moustache is more important than my significant other

Haven't seen a moustache like that since Kaiser Wilhelm

Brilliant as always

INTERESTING! I never questioned it before. The more you know!

Don't forget Justinian's plague in the 500's AD. In the once great city of Constantinople, the death rate, at its height, was 10,000 people per day.

Damn, this is the first time I have seen a Thoughty2 video and I love it! I mean, plague doctor with awesome dance moves and an awesome mustach-man, you can't find a better combo anywhere.

Dude, SLICK 50’s-80’s style dubbing at 9:48 for the derivation of the word quarantine lol 😄 That brought me back to the movies I loved growing up haha.

Great vid.

I would have thought head lice would be the culprit since everyone had them back then

Thoughty2 has joined my favourite Sitcom Frasier as being a show that guarantees me one laugh out loud per episode. (at least) Quite a new subscriber but one of the best things on You Tube. Bravo Sir, bravo.

19:53 I like the idea that this plague doctor wasn't stock footage at all but was Arran in a costume the whole time

One year later I’m here I’m obsessed with ur videos.

This was a particularly gripping episode, really well done. I liked the plot twist at the end as well, you really had me for a moment.

The government responses to coronavirus have affected the world in ways we never imagined.

great editing

i really wish there was a way to continue learning updated info from text books. text books i had in school were 20 years old sometimes. and i often get into arguements with my older coworkers about facts taught in school because their educations are outdated.

The perfect add would have been for plague inc

must admit i love watching thoughty2 because i always learn something new and every video is very interesting.

I love this guy's mustache and accent, you got me captivated almost as easily as Mr.Ballen

I saw a documentary a while back that said that they dug up graves in an abandoned town in the UK from the time of the black death and they found not only the plague, but anthrax as well.

I was doing a school assignment on the Black Death, thanks for the info !

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible, but it always *tickles*

There is a wild grey rat on our property ( we live in the foothills of a mountain preservein Phoenix AZ and the hills and trails are in our backyard literally). She is the cutest thing and visits me every evening for snacks and treats. I rustle a bag of granola outside and she appears!

You forget, too, that during this time was the Golden Horde knocking on eastern europe's door. Warfare = movement of populations = spread of diseases got even worse, considering that the Plague originally came from asia. so 1) there WERE the southern ports that did trade routes to asia that brought in the Plague but 2) there was also the eastern european-asian vector of the spread of the disease. I believe there's the story/legend of Caffa (found in modern Crimea) being under siege by the Mongols during this time period. putting the travel paths of the pathogen only on the items mentioned in the video kind of neglects that there were a lot of things happening during that time period making populations move around (in eastern asia, particularly china, i believe there was a terrible wet season that resulted in floods and bad crops which also had populations moving). But good show with this.

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Just watched Thoughty2's moustache development throughout the year. Admirable.

Great vid

I remember studying this in high school and debating it with my professors 20 years later the students were right!!!! Love to see there faces !!! Lincoln high school PA

Man if you uploaded 3 times a day id still watch every single one of them! YOURE MY FAVORITE UKposts CHANNEL!

I remember when you wore a suit. Keep going man 👍

One of the most facinating dideases along with syphilis and small pox.cholera was pretty wicked too.It takes a morbid type to enjoy studying this kind of thing.

New favourite channel

3 videos in 3 days? You're spoiling us! Good work love the content

I love the plague doctor flipping the bird though... that's got to be you behind the mask.

very, very interesting video, Thoughty2. thanks much for researching this fascinating information. :) about 20 or 25 years ago i read a book about the spread of this disease. the author’s theory was that humans spread the disease and one thing i do remember is that one family in Britain had it and it spread from there. if it were rats, there would have been outbreaks in various places, but there weren’t. just one family where the father had traveled to Europe visiting the “right place at the right time”. i found the book so interesting and would love to read it again. take care everyone. 🌷🌿🌼🌱🌷

So i just saw a slide which shows that the bacillus blocks the fleas gut making them insatiably hungry, thus much more likely to jump hosts to see if they are any better for eating. I think that tracks with the episode here.

I found that interesting. A village near where I live called Hepworth nr Holmfirth UK had a localised outbreak of the Black death reputably carried in a package of clothing transported from London. The clothes contained Fleas or Lice with no rats involved so your theory they were human carrier Fleas or Lice looks sound. Anyway, the infected people were quarantined in a part of the village until the disease had passed and the dead were buried. To celebrate this there is a village feast which goes on every year to this day. Apart from, ironically 2020 and probably 2021. The Great Plague....from Wikipedia In 1665 - 1666 the Great Plague struck England. It wrought devastation in London, then spread across the country. Hepworth was the most northerly point that it reached. According to local legend it is supposed to have come in on cloth brought from London. In an effort to save the village the residents split the village into two parts at Barracks Fold. Those that were infected remained, isolated from the world, in one half. Thirteen of the residents died from the disease, which was a considerable percentage of the population in such a small village and thirteen trees were planted to remember them. The trees still stand today, by the local football pitch. Two subsequently fell down and in 2004, replacements were planted at a small ceremony by Parish Councillor, Ruth Jackson. The end of the plague in Hepworth is still commemorated on the last Monday in June every year with Hepworth Feast.

The black death is actually just a metaphor for the mass murder committed by SCP 049 J "The plague fellow"

Looking at the records of what doctors were prescribing is also interesting. Especially the doses they were recommending.

I remember in 6th grade math class many of my fellow students most of us very competent early mathematician all came up with the same number answer to a problem given. But we were all told by our teacher that we were wrong at least according to the text book she was using. So when the teacher noticed how many of us came up with the same answer she decided to go to the chalkboard and proceed to answer the question herself. It turned out that the students were right and the text book was wrong. Insane I know I human printed book having the wrong answer. So it doesn't surprise me that the rats answer in text books are wrong isn't shocking at all.

These videos are so funny sometimes like “public hugging is as bad as public shagging”. Hmm I haven’t heard that term since austin powers movies yet it still makes me laugh😂😂😂

I haven't even watched 1 minute and I'm already questioning reality

*Can we just appreciate how friggin’ adorable rats look? :)*

What were your thoughts on it being a combination plague of Y. Pestis and a form Bacillus anthracite, put forward by Norman F. Cantor in his book 'In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it made'. It mentions the possibility of a mutated anthrax strain from the soil, that mutated due to new intensive farming techniques being developed. The increase of disease in cows when intensively farmed is one reason we generally give antibiotic to cattle.

I always assumed that plague could be passed from person to person that alone is strange to me.

I envy your magnificent and gorgeous mustache, even my uncle whom lived around the 70's loves your mustache

This topic still inspires and scares people to this day about germs and. As a Haunted Attraction Actor of 9 years My plague Doctor is the 3rd my most popular character I have done, Which has lead me to learn more about The plague and understand what it is that makes so scary..

Okay FINE. Since I have like 14 tabs open in my browser of your videos to watch, FINE. I'll subscribe. You got me! Please keep up the engaging and interesting videos :)

I knew most of this, because I listened to your book.

Thoughty2's favorite effect is putting himself on screens from stock images to a rotating phone. I applaud you.

I'm a skull collector, and one of the skulls in my collection allegedly was obtained during an archeological dig of a plague pit at a priory in the North East of England. The condition of the skull does tend to corroborate the age at being around 800 years, although it does depend a lot on the conditions within the grave. Really glad that Yersinia pestis doesn't form spores, nor does Ebola either! Y. Pestis hasn't been eradicated, it still survives, and there are occasional small outbreaks, but thankfully they haven't gone on to become a global pandemic recently!

13:20 I can't help but notice the sheet of paper being scrutinized is blank

Oh my god!!! You did it again, just like the November 15th 2019 upload 😳😳. I hope we are better prepared now.

I'm so glad you covered this rather controversial subject, I've been looking into it for years!

Total cases C-19 as of 2022/January: 320M. Total deaths: 5.52M. Not so low in numbers now.

Shoutout to the Plague Doctor at 15:31 who's just vibin'

"Gee Brain. What do you want to do tonight?" " Same thing as we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"

I feel like I should be paying for this content. Top notch work and effort

Norway guy here. We got a pretty Epic Last names tho after the black Death at our place. names like Ødegård which means Abandoned left away to rot Farms which really happened back then because people lived so far inland and away. so after the plague was gone there would be farms left alone in the middle of nowhere. Øde - desolate Gård/Gaard - Farm

to my understanding there was a 3rd disease that came from Yersinia pestis which is called Septicemic plague, a bacterial infection of the blood. the death is ultimately internal bleeding, or back then the fever had a high chance of killing you before the disease.

You should do a video on the blue changeling children of northern Europe. Connecting them to pneumonia and fugate type mutation. It would be interesting.

A bubonic variant that was strictly pneumonia and highly contagious makes sense

@Thoughty2 is it possible to enable subtitles on this video on plz ? Keep it up 😉 Thank you