You still have a 5-15% chance of dying with modern antibiotics.

It's the improvement in sanitary practices that ultimately made it a much lesser issue.

When I was stationed in Colorado, we were doing our exercise in an open field of grass, rolling around, doing push-ups and sit-ups etc, when someone ran up and told the person running the formation that we needed to move because plague had been discovered in the prairie dog droppings all over the base, just like the ones we were apparently rolling around in

Fun times

Right, we still regularly have cases.

Just completely ignores history, changes in human hygiene, and developments in medicine that weren't vaccines ("let's just ignore antiserums, sulphonamides, and streptomycin!").

How did it only kill 1/3, did many people survive it?

It actually still exists in people too, it's just rare and treatable with antibiotics.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/seriously-dont-worry-about-the-plague

I assume you mean well, but this is serious "confidently incorrect" energy. Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes bubonic plague, never changed to become less virulent and can still affect humans to this day. It has been killing a ton of humans for thousands of years and was still killing thousands of people at a time in localized outbreaks up until we discovered the antibiotics that cure it.

Also, it's transmitted through the fleas on small mammals, not through the mammals themselves. Flea transmission is far and away the primary vector. Human to human transmission has always been pretty rare, since it can only be transmitted between humans through contact with bodily fluids, similar to how HIV spreads.

the more infectious and fatal strains spread to and killed off every susceptible human at a rate that could not support its propagation to new healthy humans

Plague Inc. has taught me how to be more effective and prevent this from happening.

It broke feudalism, too, and kickstarted the renaissance.

How so? Didn’t Luther do that a couple hundred years later?

So sick of seeing confidently incorrect people opining, using historical examples, when they have never before cracked open a history book and have no idea of the context.

This has always been the case through history.

The issue is Twitter boosts them over less engaging experts. The new problem is the medium. Twitter is not a fair forum, and these takes trend deliberately.

...And I think its really important for scientists (or anyone who believes in science) to recognize that. With all due respect, I do not understand, with everything that's happened, why they still keep using Twitter.

Henry Ford believed the Elders of Zion, and he was a cultural icon in business, which I assume meant he was top tier intelligent at the time.

depending on the person, one death could also be a party

That why a rhetorical tool that personalizes death may work.

Something like "okay, your mother is now dead. And now your wife, and auntie and even your old highschool girlfriend. You watch them all die, bewildered and distraught, but you do nothing until your son dies in front of you, choking on a resporator, pleading in his eyes until the very end."

"You can stop the rest of your family dying right now right now, right way. you can even save your own life, in a way that will also save other peoples mothers, wifes, and sons. Will you?"

But I assume that nobody at the time had autism, because they were not vaccinated. Worth it!^/s^

Kind of rude to talk about Kanye like that

Exactly this. Not only did it essentially wipe out entire populations and even drastically alter the course of civilizations (repeatedly), it has not "disappeared." It is still endemic in mammalian (mostly rodent+flea) populations in some areas including in the US. Every year there are people who get infected with it. I think it's an average of like 7 people per year in the US, but as usual, countries more heavily exploited by the US and its vassals get it worse. Hundreds of cases per year in DRC for example. It's hasn't "disappeared," this antivaxxer nitwit just doesn't know about it because modern medicine has made it treatable and precluded its ability to spread as it did in previous centuries.

Bubonic plague is still a thing.

i think multifactorial and all the rats eventually died out or something, due to reintroduction of especially terrier dogs/cats. also likely brown rats displaced the black rats.

Technically, it didn't disappear at all!

The Black Death (bubonic plague) that devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th century did not occur on the American continent.

However, a later, separate outbreak of the bubonic plague was introduced to the Americas around 1900, resulting in the following recorded deaths:

United States (1900-1904): The first major outbreak in San Francisco killed at least 119 to 172 people.

United States (1900–2015): A total of 1,036 human plague cases were reported in the U.S. during this period.

United States (1900-1942): Before antibiotics, there were 511 cases, of which 336 were fatal (66% mortality rate).

United States (Recent): In recent decades, an average of seven human plague cases are reported in the U.S. each year. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov)

Key Facts on Plague in the Americas: Origin: The plague arrived in the US on rat-infested steamships from Asia, primarily affecting West Coast port cities.

Endemic Status: The disease established itself among wild rodents in the Western US (especially New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado).

Location: While rare, modern plague cases in the Americas occur primarily in the United States and Peru. Smithsonian Magazine

I prefer people who survive the plague 🤷‍♂️