The 5 Worst Plagues In Human History | Random Thursday

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  • The biggest killers of humans in history are the smallest organisms on the planet. From the Bubonic Plague to Smallpox, Influenza, and AIDS, today we look at the 5 worst plagues in human history.
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  • @Redthorn57
    @Redthorn57 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2817

    "Be glad you live when you do"
    2020: Here we go

    • @IconW
      @IconW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Here we go... again?

    • @simbaonsteroids8836
      @simbaonsteroids8836 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Team rocket blasting off again

    • @burdenstephen
      @burdenstephen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      aged like milk

    • @caz5800
      @caz5800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      It could be worst, we could have pandemics and people denying the importance of medicine and vaccines and. Oh! Wait...

    • @Thecuriousincident1
      @Thecuriousincident1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@caz5800 Also a leader not taking it seriously and getting prepared while they had the chance.

  • @justicar5
    @justicar5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +857

    Suddenly extremely relevant.

    • @user-hf9hf6hw8j
      @user-hf9hf6hw8j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BALLS

    • @chuckmaddox6725
      @chuckmaddox6725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No, these were REAL plagues.

    • @ASHl33164
      @ASHl33164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@chuckmaddox6725 Seriously?! SERIOUSLY??!?!?! 😒🤬😡🤯🙄😑 I am a nurse, and I gotta say, if you really believe coronavirus isn’t real, you are the worst type of person. People like you are the reason our country hasn’t been successful at controlling this virus. You are extremely lucky you haven’t been personally affected. I will shamelessly admit I’m judging you, but I still wouldn’t wish this virus on you or anyone in your family. Have fun with your extremely naïve “opinion,” which is really just complete and utter ignorance.

    • @sharky2606
      @sharky2606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@chuckmaddox6725 read a book

    • @tuxedosteve9556
      @tuxedosteve9556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ASHl33164 a plague is a bacterial infection. They weren’t wrong. Coronavirus is a virus. I could be wrong cuz I just looked it up on google and the definition was bacterial infection.

  • @hannahhill7478
    @hannahhill7478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +705

    “Be glad you live when you do” is STILL right. If we had this pandemic without modern medicine we’d be way more screwed.

    • @florencenyakio3856
      @florencenyakio3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You are so right! This is such an underrated comment.
      Hope you're doing well and keeping safe during this time.

    • @NeoN-PeoN
      @NeoN-PeoN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It seems more likely that this pandemic was caused by today's technology.
      But still, I'm glad I live now and not then.

    • @maineventmafia1633
      @maineventmafia1633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@NeoN-PeoN caused? No. Helped make it more easily spreadable? Definitely

    • @NeoN-PeoN
      @NeoN-PeoN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maineventmafia1633 what? You STILL think this virus evolved naturally from bats? Get real, dude. Jeez.

    • @maineventmafia1633
      @maineventmafia1633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NeoN-PeoN never said anything about where it came from. I just said our current technology definitely didn’t help. Get real dude. Jeez.

  • @nicolettemare3121
    @nicolettemare3121 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Had malaria twice, and would not wish it on my worst enemy. It's one of those where you are scared that you will die and then you are scared that you will not die 🤣

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The same for me. It's miserable lying there hot, then freezing, bones aching. Then the malaria meds kick in. Such relief!

    • @winnieamictasol318
      @winnieamictasol318 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2degucitas sounds exactly like opiate withdrawal! The biggest plague of them all is the plague of drugs.. for sure

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@winnieamictasol318 sounds horrible

  • @johnhealy1006
    @johnhealy1006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I worked with a man who lived in the London, England area who told me an interesting story about a friend of his. They lived in a very, very old house that throughout the centuries was renovated and updated a lot. He was in the process of breaking down a wall to expand the room when he found an old wall that was previously covered up by newer walls. When they started to break through they found hundreds of rat skeletons infused into the wall. Finding this very strange and creepy, he decided to do some research on why this could have been done. He found an article that stated during the Black Plague the people knew the rats had something to do with all the deaths that were occurring, but didn’t know how or why this was happening. At the time many believed that the rats were cursed, and they were continually looking for wards to drive off the rats and the plague. Since there was an abundance of dead rats in the area, local builders felt that if they mixed them in with the mortar and cement, it would scare off the live rats carrying the disease. So not only did the guy find out why there was an abundance of dead rats imbedded in his wall, he found out that parts of the house was built sometime around 1350 ad, which was 500 years earlier than he thought. I found this story very interesting and appropriate based on your video!

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +917

    You know damn well that within days of destroying the last smallpox samples, mediumpox will emerge and we'll be wishing we had some samples of smallpox to study.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  5 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      And then largepox. And then hugepox. And then gigantopox. It never ends.

    • @abbyshore9953
      @abbyshore9953 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@joescott then we get to the terrifying Megapox

    • @massimookissed1023
      @massimookissed1023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Shut up, Meg.

    • @evilotto9200
      @evilotto9200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We hoomanity destroys its last samples of small pox, it will be because they're confident they can engineer a more destructive, more selective plague.
      With in most of your lifetimes. Congratulations!

    • @keepingitsimple2021
      @keepingitsimple2021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and then GIGAPUDDI

  • @TheAtlasJoker
    @TheAtlasJoker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    15:29 ohhhh so he’s the one who jinxed us for 2020

  • @robertabarnhart6240
    @robertabarnhart6240 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    You forgot the honorable mention - polio. I'm too young to remember it, but apparently it was scary. My mom remembers her sister and her not being allowed to play outside because of the polio epidemic.

  • @xjdfghashzkj
    @xjdfghashzkj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    My grandma caught that influenza strain back in 1918, when she was a little toddler in Brooklyn. She managed to survive by the skin of her teeth, grow up, raise hell, have a badass life, create my mother, and stride off into the unknowable ether in 2004 surrounded by her loving family.
    All of us exist only because we still hang from threads threaded through the fickle fingers of the fist of fate. So let's try our best to be kind.

    • @roberthereandthere4366
      @roberthereandthere4366 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You have a wonderful, poetic use of language 😊👍

    • @benwainwright4431
      @benwainwright4431 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I feel like if I analyze that message and follow the clues i’d find hidden treasure. shakespeare ass comment

    • @RogerLewis-ey2tt
      @RogerLewis-ey2tt ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beautiful, James. Thank you.

  • @hognigk96
    @hognigk96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +940

    About 1918 being a horrible year, in my native country, Iceland, we have a whole book (at least when I was a kid) that was basically all about how terrible this year was.
    In that year we had the worst economic depression of the 20th century (caused by WWI), the Spanish influenza epidemic which killed a sizeable population, a massive volcanic eruption IN A GLACIER causing massive flooding, and then to top it all off we had one of the coldest recorded winters ever up until that point.
    1918, not a great year anywhere.

    • @myssig123
      @myssig123 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      hognigk96 Umm, books don’t ‘unbook’ with age..

    • @hognigk96
      @hognigk96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Meant that it was mandatory reading when I was a kid. I don’t English so well.

    • @guzmaekstroem
      @guzmaekstroem 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Well, i have to disagree with the "anywhere" part.
      Oddly enough. Here in Czechia (and Slovakia also) we celebrate 1918 as the year we got rid of Habsburg monarchy and the county was formed (Due to WWI partially). It is a national holiday.

    • @hognigk96
      @hognigk96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      guzmaekstroem that’s really cool, congrats on the 100 year anniversary of your countries independence! Similarly, the only good thing to come out of 1918 for us was our sovereignty from the Danes (not full independence but close) and that was also largely a result of the war.

    • @133774c05
      @133774c05 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mexico the year that Mexican Revolution (which was basically a civil war), ended setting up the political party that ruled till 2000, a party known for killing students and disappearing reporters.
      Edit: I was off on the date it officialy ended but pretty much the whole decade sucked.

  • @despacitodaniel801
    @despacitodaniel801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    The song in the background is successfully making me jam throughout a roadmap of death

  • @gawd4582
    @gawd4582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love you Joe. Lol. Completely addicted to your history-telling. Some new, some not. I like your editorializing too.

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1285

    Thanks for reminding the masses what they have to look forward to if they don't get their shit together! 😇

    • @alanaz5151
      @alanaz5151 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Jesus Christ how is the custody trial going

    • @thecoclster8427
      @thecoclster8427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      love that our lord Jesus watches this guy

    • @contrarianduude3463
      @contrarianduude3463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      While your here, what are next weeks power-ball numbers? I'll donate half the winnings!

    • @_Opal_Miner_
      @_Opal_Miner_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Hey J-man, do me a solid and swing some famine my way. Been packing on the pounds since my last break-up and could use a hand.
      Love your work.
      Peace and shit.

    • @justwilliam4802
      @justwilliam4802 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Jesus whatcha your mouth! Lol

  • @hecoop
    @hecoop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1905

    “Be glad you live when you do”
    Well that didn’t age well 😂

    • @Beckyshort
      @Beckyshort 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Exactly what I came here to comment. 😂😭

    • @user-lv6rn9cf8m
      @user-lv6rn9cf8m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      The corona virus is nothing like the plagues mentioned in this video. Saying stuff like that just makes people unreasonably fearful. Better to be factual. If the death rate somehow increases several million times we can start talking...

    • @USER-G291
      @USER-G291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ^

    • @captainyoink5723
      @captainyoink5723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That moment you think covid is the death of humanity.

    • @Beckyshort
      @Beckyshort 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@user-lv6rn9cf8m stop downplaying the deaths! It's not a freaking contest. This is something that a lot of people have never dealt with. We have a right to think it's awful. Who cares iF thE WorLD hAs SeEN woRsE. This is the worse we have seen and it's all we know. Stop telling me what to think and feel.

  • @will2see
    @will2see 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    16:18 "BE GLAD YOU LIVE WHEN YOU DO PEOPLE!"

  • @James-vo1ex
    @James-vo1ex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    One of my favourite medical facts is that the final stage of AIDS is scientifically known as 'full-blown aids' as he says in the video. Still cracks me up even though it's a touchy subject. Also I wanted to add that Magic Johnson, one of the best basketball players of all time, was another person to normalize AIDS and get it the attention it deserves. I also live in Kwa-zulu Natal, the province in South Africa which has the highest AIDS percentage, around 17%, in the country with the most AIDS-affected people in the world. Our neighbouring country Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has a higher percentage at 27% although it has a far lower population.

    • @vicenzor3625
      @vicenzor3625 ปีที่แล้ว

      Magic Johnson to me is proof there was a cure for AIDS in the early 90s but it was withheld from the population because of the cost and that at that time it was thought to only infect gays and drug needle sharers. Undesirables in the 1990s. There's no other way he should be alive today or should have lived at all past about 1994 if not for being a crazy rich celebrity that was given access to a cure that was withheld from millions of people. Our society it truly evil.

    • @James-vo1ex
      @James-vo1ex ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vicenzor3625 There is a temporary "Cure" called ARVs, Antiretroviral treatment. It doesn't cure the condition but it reduces the amount of HIV in your body and keeps you healthy. Problem is it's extremely expensive, which is even more fucked up because it exists but only the 0.1% could afford it when most sufferers are struggling to make it financially as it is

    • @Kat-tr2ig
      @Kat-tr2ig ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My best friend at the time contracted HIV in 2000. He's living a normal life today, works as a teacher, is married, travels, etc. Growing up in the 80s it was a death sentence and so taboo that it was only hush-hush talked about.

  • @JRvonP
    @JRvonP 5 ปีที่แล้ว +717

    1918 not a great year, well that may actually be the greatest understatement i ever heard

    • @joescott
      @joescott  5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I am the greatest understater of all time.
      (even that was an understatement)

    • @causaestmalleus4605
      @causaestmalleus4605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I have a better one:
      Trump is a bad president.

    • @aditya234567
      @aditya234567 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess general relativity got reputation around same time :p

    • @darugdawg2453
      @darugdawg2453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never encountered mosquito in middle east. In my home country in asia its thousands in rural areas

    • @turkosicsaba
      @turkosicsaba 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      BTW syphilis is alleged to have been brought to Europe from the Americas.

  • @brianmullan3678
    @brianmullan3678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1727

    Smallpox and whooping cough killed all my kids in Oregon trail. I was in 6th grade and had no business being a parent anyways.

    • @twn5858
      @twn5858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Huh? All I remember from the stupid Oregon Trail crap that I did in grade school was trading in pelts. I guess that's what they used as currency back in those days. At least that's what my teacher claimed anyways.

    • @yesitsme2170
      @yesitsme2170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thanksgiving and I will be there at all the time and I will be there at all the time and I will be there for it it's just the vhs was just thinking that bad the time but it will force myself and the other will you

    • @nkwhite
      @nkwhite 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂

    • @hunam1464
      @hunam1464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      And I thought dysentery and explosive diarrhea was bad.

    • @AshesAshes44
      @AshesAshes44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I thought it was *always* dysentery that killed people, even when they fell off a cliff

  • @edi4360
    @edi4360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I’m glad to be living through multiple historic events.

  • @carriesullivan8996
    @carriesullivan8996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Crazy to think we are living through something that will go down in history as one of these!

    • @katybug6572
      @katybug6572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right lol

    • @ernestsmith3581
      @ernestsmith3581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      History is more likely going to examine the mass hysteria aspect of the Coronavirus pandemic; all the crazy societal changes it triggered.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ernestsmith3581 500,00 dead is close to the 675,000 dead in america in 1918

    • @JoshuaTootell
      @JoshuaTootell ปีที่แล้ว

      Compare to a percentage of population, and it's nowhere as bad. Now also consider that 100,000 people died in 2021 in America from drug overdose, and you can see that we have other epidemics that need attention ​@@nosuchthing8

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joshua Tootell a million people died from covid already in America alone.
      And unlike most of these other issues, like cancer or drug overdoses, you CAN catch covid from someone that's standing in line at the grocery store.
      The average life span has declined, and the death rate has jumped up.
      You couldn't be more wrong.

  • @macgeek2004
    @macgeek2004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +629

    I'm sure that TH-cam suggested this video to me for no reason at all... O_O

    • @madmanozzy4530
      @madmanozzy4530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Coronavirus

    • @tanishaweary9154
      @tanishaweary9154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same

    • @andywarren1809
      @andywarren1809 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same... freaky!

    • @DarkSkay
      @DarkSkay 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, Google's AI seems so good, it could write comments in your place... and an expert could have a hard time telling the Real-you and the AI-you apart ;-)

    • @matteusgreyling7074
      @matteusgreyling7074 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol me to i thought this a new video

  • @bplup6419
    @bplup6419 5 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    "People were fleeing New Jersey."
    Nothing new

    • @cancel1913
      @cancel1913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fleeing from being taxed to death!

    • @ashleyalston4433
      @ashleyalston4433 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thought it was just me

    • @DigitalJedi
      @DigitalJedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My first experience with New Jersey was watching the front of a dodge Durango burst into flames as soon as it crossed the border. Overall a pretty good day though.

    • @ericdew2021
      @ericdew2021 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And because of a swarm of illegal aliens, no less.

    • @LC-se8pw
      @LC-se8pw 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericdew2021 😂

  • @bladudemovies
    @bladudemovies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "Be glad you live when you do."
    *Laughs in 2020*

  • @Snowfire0903
    @Snowfire0903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Me: *clicked on this video out of curiosity*
    Also me: I wonder what the comments section is like.
    Comments section: _Quarantine jokes_

  • @ddevin
    @ddevin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    The YT algorithm knows what's up

  • @thetangerine5747
    @thetangerine5747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Joe:talks about death
    Music: *happy time*

  • @divescubatime
    @divescubatime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The expression "mind your own beeswax". That expression came from antebellum time. On southern plantations, the expression could be heard among the ladies. Small Pox was active in antebellum time and the survivors were left with circular scars. These scars were not acceptable to the plantation ladies. What they would do is fill the scars with beeswax and cover it up with makeup. Hense "Mind your own beeswax"
    Joe Taylor
    Tour Guide New Orleans, La. French Quarter

    • @Christophe_L
      @Christophe_L ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is likely folk etymology.

  • @AGuyWithTheFace
    @AGuyWithTheFace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You forgot to mention the variant of Small Pox that cause your skin to slough off your body in sheets. Like a reptile shedding but there's no new skin underneath.

  • @CheezyEnsaymada
    @CheezyEnsaymada 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1921

    *[Coronavirus has entered the chat]*
    2021 edit: guys this is not a serious comment please and its literally from the beginning of the pandemic

    • @walterhawkins1062
      @walterhawkins1062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Not a plague

    • @batonnetdecannelle
      @batonnetdecannelle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@walterhawkins1062 Planet Earth? Not a sphere

    • @nobody9140
      @nobody9140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      The Corona virus doesn't even come close to the death count or victims that suffered at the hands of all the plagues in this video

    • @fabiankirchgessner9683
      @fabiankirchgessner9683 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Harmless.

    • @michaelsander2878
      @michaelsander2878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@nobody9140 Yet. The US is working on it.

  • @helenkhan3287
    @helenkhan3287 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    After spending a couple weeks looking for something to binge watch, I seem to have struck gold with this channel. It's wonderful!

  • @sydnidowney3598
    @sydnidowney3598 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    THERE is a small town in the UK that seems to have been immune to the plague. the people in that town also seem to be immune to AIDS. Saw a show about this a few years ago. do a show on this please.

  • @garypeck2781
    @garypeck2781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There is a really amazing novel about someone trying to weaponize that "sledge hammer small pox". It's definitely one of my top 5 reads. Its called "I am Pilgrim". It actually switches perspective between the 2 lead characters back and forth. One is the creator of the weapon and the other is a US black ops agent who is tasked with tracking him. Code name: Pilgrim. It really gives you perspective from both sides. Super highly recommend it. It has some good science it in and lots of cool spy stuff.

  • @ReallyCoolSite
    @ReallyCoolSite 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    1918 was so bad and went on for so long that my great grandmother died from it, my great grandfather remarried, then he died of it and his new wife abandoned my grandfather and his uncle at an orphanage because there were no other blood relatives that could take them. They were all dead. That whole side of the family was wiped away except for two little kids.

  • @cyancyborg1477
    @cyancyborg1477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Just thought I'd ad that that as someone currently in their early 20's, who grew up well after the HIV breakout, our culture surrounding condom use is basically you use one by default.

    • @christschinwon
      @christschinwon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If she's still there in the morning & you're spooning slip one in from behind and say 'it's cool, we know each other now'. Works for me!

    • @gremlinsarered5259
      @gremlinsarered5259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And the reason it's at that default is.... Wait for it.... HIV.

    • @Cynful033
      @Cynful033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@christschinwon was this supposed to be a rape joke?

    • @fordshojoe8080
      @fordshojoe8080 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @UCW49svTT9b99qyZi_R34MtQ wtf really? No you imbecile he's doing her without a condom nothing to do with rape nor does it even sound like it does unless you want there to be.

    • @cyancyborg1477
      @cyancyborg1477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@fordshojoe8080 If a guy and I agreed that we only use condoms, and then he just shoves it in me raw without first asking if I'm comfortable with that, I'd feel pretty fucking violated. I didn't say he could do that. So yeah, definitely wrong, definitely outright rape if he kept going.

  • @xxxpantaloonsxxx3688
    @xxxpantaloonsxxx3688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    all the comments are like "CoRonA ViRuS"

    • @lennaymaboyyy4848
      @lennaymaboyyy4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      kind of ridiculous comparing any of these plagues to covid lol

    • @xxxpantaloonsxxx3688
      @xxxpantaloonsxxx3688 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lennaymaboyyy4848 For real though

  • @XxFusionsk8rxX
    @XxFusionsk8rxX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Stay safe Joe, love your videos brother. Hell everyone stay safe. I hope this passes sooner than later.

  • @jschneir
    @jschneir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    You forgot telemarketers. I hate telemarketers

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I understand, but they are trying to make an honest living. Must be tough to have to fall back on that. I actually feel sorry for them, but I'm an old softy. But not so soft, I don't hang up on them. Because of them, I rarely answer my phone, and only respond to messages left by family and friends. My "cure" for that "plague".

    • @TheLIgooblin
      @TheLIgooblin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aaaannnnchovies...

    • @bluhcrih1613
      @bluhcrih1613 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's actually a great job.
      Getting payed to call people that's not even going to know why you called.

  • @ThePhantomSephiroth
    @ThePhantomSephiroth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    When Mother Nature says: ''Time for a pruning.''

    • @thecringykids6204
      @thecringykids6204 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeh and in fall the most people die so Mother Nature is a tree

    • @abird5575
      @abird5575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Someone should really tell Mother Nature this isn’t how spring cleaning is done.

    • @RickMason-yj7pv
      @RickMason-yj7pv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or "Time to take out the garbage."

    • @benny_lemon5123
      @benny_lemon5123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2020 handed mother nature the pruning shears...

    • @tomboard1
      @tomboard1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Reading this comment now and how right you were.

  • @MrTihbohs
    @MrTihbohs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    More like: "Be glad you lived when you did."

  • @2liter8
    @2liter8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thx Joe for another great video and doing all the work to compile it.

  • @gavinr9356
    @gavinr9356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    Joe:vaccines completely eradicated smallpox
    Antivax people: I’m about to end this whole mans career

    • @wilt3051
      @wilt3051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      If those antivax people even try to fight me I wont throw punches, I would just cough and sneeze in front of them.

    • @cheezwhiz2034
      @cheezwhiz2034 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      they don’t vaccinate for smallpox anymore anyway... lol

    • @DJ-uw9uq
      @DJ-uw9uq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@cheezwhiz2034 because its eradicated

    • @stormisuedonym4599
      @stormisuedonym4599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WithScienceAsMySheperd Sickle cell is the homogenous trait. While protective, the problems outweigh the benefits.
      Being heterozygous for the trait, however, is less overall detrimental and just about as protective.

    • @annetteblackmon9578
      @annetteblackmon9578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Darleen Jewell Eradicated, means it’s gone? Right 🤔 because all my kids got chicken pox’s, including myself ✌️

  • @buzzlaw
    @buzzlaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Radio, it's TH-cam when you put your phone down to go to sleep but still want to listen.

  • @fudge8481
    @fudge8481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This aged well

  • @shwetankshekhar7051
    @shwetankshekhar7051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Lol, the simpler times....when pandemics were interesting historical discussions 😖😖

  • @kartoffelsaft44
    @kartoffelsaft44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    "And then after a few days you die, hence the word death" Ok I laughed more than what I should have with that

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have a very simple humour.

  • @ggaffgaff3072
    @ggaffgaff3072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Thank you TH-cam for dropping this into my suggested videos right when a national emergency was declared for the COVID-19. Hearing how millions of people died from other uncontainable diseases really calmed me down. 😐😑😶

    • @vikkigardner6686
      @vikkigardner6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just preparing us for what is coming!

    • @donnellwiggins8777
      @donnellwiggins8777 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you chose to click on it and comment? Very smart response when you're worried about the video content

  • @andrewmiller4972
    @andrewmiller4972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Holy crap, just found this again. So fitting after we’ve been locked up for a year!

  • @johnmaclean2040
    @johnmaclean2040 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always great. Keep it up man love the videos

  • @DaisyDeathDiaper
    @DaisyDeathDiaper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "Who was this Gardner?" I literally scared my co-workers, laughing so hard.

    • @jamiejones6122
      @jamiejones6122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg I woke my husband laughing at the same thing

    • @jordanbridges
      @jordanbridges 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gardener

  • @TeroHal
    @TeroHal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    Apparently the War of the worlds ’panic’ never actually happened. The broadcast wasn’t that popular. It was later made up as a PR stunt to advertise the show. The ’panic’ is one of those things that isn’t true, despite everyone knowing it is.

    • @lvl10cooking
      @lvl10cooking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mandela Effect?

    • @JudgeDee42
      @JudgeDee42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The idea that Welles created a panic among listeners who thought there was a real invasion is unsupported by facts. The newspapers stories about this 'panic' were an attempt to discredit radio as a source of 'real' news. Makes we wonder about how well the rest of the video is researched.
      www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Swinging the pendulum all the way back in the other direction with this silly conspiracy tale that it was the newspapers conspiring against radio isn't going to restore balance. It couldn't have been an advertising stunt either because it was a live broadcast that had already occurred. It's just the mirror image of the same nonsense you two are supposedly trying to debunk.
      Some people did freak out, but very few. This was a commercial radio broadcast and they took station breaks and announced that this was a dramatic program. But it wasn't a massive audience, it was about 2% of the listeners in that hour according to ratings agencies. There were other radio networks besides CBS with more popular programs.

    • @sdl1ishappy
      @sdl1ishappy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      My grandpa was a teenager at the time, and he did listen to the broadcast. I asked him if he was scared by it, and he said no that he was a regular listener to the show, which was an anthology, and he recognized Orson Wells's voice. He had also read War of the Worlds so that he also recognized the story as a story. He had never heard of the panic until much later. He thought the whole panic was a publicity stunt.

    • @JudgeDee42
      @JudgeDee42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How did the story of panicked listeners begin? Blame America’s newspapers. Radio had siphoned off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. So the papers seized the opportunity presented by Welles’ program to discredit radio as a source of news. The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted. In an editorial titled “Terror by Radio,” the New York Times reproached “radio officials” for approving the interweaving of “blood-curdling fiction” with news flashes “offered in exactly the manner that real news would have been given.” Warned Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry’s trade journal, “The nation as a whole continues to face the danger of incomplete, misunderstood news over a medium which has yet to prove ... that it is competent to perform the news job.”
      www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html

  • @JonnyOpinionated
    @JonnyOpinionated 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:02 - he says "That's always 'bugged' me..." HEY-O!

    • @jamiejones6122
      @jamiejones6122 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Signs literally made me so annoyed

  • @kittycat-jt5oq
    @kittycat-jt5oq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who knew? Love your little info bite videos! Thank you Joe!! I feel smarter already! Lol!

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    This is why I have a dental cleaning every 6 months. To scrape off the plague from my teeth.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Gingivitis was the 6th on the list.

    • @bgshouse2785
      @bgshouse2785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LoL

    • @dawne5139
      @dawne5139 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That is a dad joke.

    • @papaclanc
      @papaclanc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      qte joke

    • @donweatherwax9318
      @donweatherwax9318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I see what you _dead_ there ☣

  • @GiraffeParty
    @GiraffeParty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "1918 .... not a great year." I love his interlude commentary. :-D

  • @thefittest9921
    @thefittest9921 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching this video 2 years later in 2021. For real be glad you live when you do.

  • @TheTam0613
    @TheTam0613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This feels really relevant right now!

  • @lasagaeater6891
    @lasagaeater6891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    This video is gonna have to be remade after covid19 is over

    • @selengarett8604
      @selengarett8604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Who said it will ever be over

    • @startrick7390
      @startrick7390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Selen Garett Don’t.

    • @mod8179
      @mod8179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      (It’ll need to be a sidebar about how the media fear mongered the world economy into the ground)

    • @BattlePro3
      @BattlePro3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It wont have to be remade. Covid-19 only spreads fast, its nowhere near potent enough to be even nominated for this list. If it truly was that deadly or dangerous to be on this list, we would live in an apocalypse atm. We dont.

    • @somethingwithat5787
      @somethingwithat5787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Covids nothing compared to these wym

  • @horashia495
    @horashia495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Am I the only one that got this in my recommendation after the nCov breakout ??

    • @FeduGina
      @FeduGina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      #metoo

  • @quandale8707
    @quandale8707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the 6 worst plagues in human history

  • @farinshore8900
    @farinshore8900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best, most accurate, explanation of hiv i have seen in a long time

  • @devakipurohit7363
    @devakipurohit7363 4 ปีที่แล้ว +818

    Anyone here after the outbreak of coronavirus? 😣

    • @JonathanBunceUK
      @JonathanBunceUK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep!

    • @skullduggery1096
      @skullduggery1096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      We should all be. Very concerned.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@skullduggery1096 Laowhy86 on TH-cam put out an hour long video talking about how the Chinese government does not have it under control. Listen especially at 46 minutes to what they literally say just matter of factually. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has moved portable crematories with tons per day of capacity into the Wuhan area. Now that is scary.
      th-cam.com/video/TOHIhshyWE4/w-d-xo.html

    • @Kr0n0sST06
      @Kr0n0sST06 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, popped up on my feed

    • @yziib3578
      @yziib3578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @Michael Jones Wrong on many levels. First different family of virus so it is not literally the flu. Second the case mortality rate is 3.4%, just announced by the WHO. This makes it 34 times more deadly than the average flu. It is far more infectious. If it is just a bad flu why has China been shut down? The Chinese government is not behaving like it is just a flu.
      By the end of the year the death toll will be in the millions. But given its exponential growth in a month, 2 at the most it will be obvious to everyone how bad this is.

  • @mbntr2363
    @mbntr2363 4 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Coronavirus: _let me introduce myself_

    • @patg9754
      @patg9754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nothingburger

    • @tuxedosteve9556
      @tuxedosteve9556 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not a plague, plague is bacteria. We have a virus

    • @researcher_21c72
      @researcher_21c72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tuxedosteve9556 pls stop saying that everywhere lol

  • @tystkanin9996
    @tystkanin9996 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your description of what radio is

  • @cassymcquade4347
    @cassymcquade4347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In 92 my uncle was the soul survivor of a head on collision car accident, he was asleep in the back of a Van so his brain didn’t register the accident and his body being relaxed played a big part .
    He had massive internal bleeding though and needed a transfusion , which he unfortunately contracted AIDS from
    😞
    It was really hard watching him deteriorate. He eventually passed from a lung infection at 34 years old

  • @sambrewer2306
    @sambrewer2306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    U said why would an advanced species land on a planet that mostly water when thats there weakness. Hmm. My thought was why are we trying to go to space when no oxygen is our weakness. Makes one think. But I do agree with u that some1 would think that martians would at least be prepared for it. Like we wear space suits in preparation for no oxygen.
    Great show Joe

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its called suspension of disbelief. If you overthink the details in every movie, you won't enjoy them.

    • @b.sylphaen
      @b.sylphaen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But we don't go into space NAKED! Those aliens in Signs weren't even using a loincloth.

    • @missyk2454
      @missyk2454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or maybe they'd never come in contact with water before. Like just knew it was a liquid but never had come in contact with it on such a large scale.

    • @stormisuedonym4599
      @stormisuedonym4599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@missyk2454 But it's one of the most abundant materials there is.

    • @spicytuna5920
      @spicytuna5920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dreaming Dreamer it’s lazy writing

  • @aellalee4767
    @aellalee4767 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Oh I exist because of the Spanish flu! Killed my great grandfather's family, so he got remarried to my great grandmother and so on.

    • @RELO6
      @RELO6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same story only I'm here because of dysentery.

    • @bipedalbob
      @bipedalbob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RELO6 wow never thought about that before, if alcoholism didn't exist, neither would I,
      On the other side I suspect alcohol contributed to quite a few pregnancys.

    • @forestgreen41
      @forestgreen41 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's really sad and hopeful at the same time. If that makes any sense. I feel for your gggrandfather though .... He must have lived in constant fear for his second family.

    • @Hooyahfish
      @Hooyahfish 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chaos theory bro.

    • @JInfinity7
      @JInfinity7 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well....antivaxxers are only here because their moms wouldn't swallow, so go figure.

  • @ronanmadden8398
    @ronanmadden8398 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This man kills it with the hooks/introductions for the videos

  • @sandragoodman2227
    @sandragoodman2227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for your "decimate" comment. Drives me nuts!

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The meaning has changed over the past several thousand years. Deal with it.
      Look at the word patronize. Dont patronize me by pretending you dont know patronize has taken on new meanings

  • @contrarianduude3463
    @contrarianduude3463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Aliens: We are to speak with your leaders, we are here to study your war like culture.
    U.N. Spokesperson: That's great, by the way we have these great hand crafted blankets to give as a gift. Thanks for stopping by.

    • @emperor002002
      @emperor002002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Europeans sigh, still at it. lol

    • @dropkicksofthemurphys9696
      @dropkicksofthemurphys9696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh. Oh no.

    • @jamesknapp64
      @jamesknapp64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@emperor002002 it worked before, why not keep doing it /s

    • @emperor002002
      @emperor002002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamesknapp64 🤔 point taken. Ah Haaa 🤷🏿‍♂️

    • @selengarett8604
      @selengarett8604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Corona

  • @joseissofunny
    @joseissofunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Who here during coronavirus outbreak

    • @Holly51515
      @Holly51515 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      .06% of the world did with. .02% died of Covid. ........ sooo ya,

  • @pjhoury2072
    @pjhoury2072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, please do a show about Bubonic Plague in Europe Joe. The impact of it, the fear it caused, the emptying of the fields, the rise of Italian city states, and its relationship to agriculture, industry and science is relatively unknown, but profound. Perhaps its history may speak to the predicament we're in now.

  • @madhuchhandachakraborty3085
    @madhuchhandachakraborty3085 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your videos and presentation

  • @pandabear4565
    @pandabear4565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "1918, not a great year"-Joe Scott

  • @iamsarahtonin
    @iamsarahtonin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fascinating. My Great Grandmother died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. My Nan was only 3!Its both interesting and sad for this to be given some context. xxx

  • @ellarajacich3021
    @ellarajacich3021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just imagine you a grandparent and you grand kids ask “grandma/grandpa what was it like during the covid 19 pandemic ?”

  • @euler4273
    @euler4273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching this in 2021 is definitely intersting.

  • @baikabelo4
    @baikabelo4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "Who is this gardner" LMAO xD

  • @gaytie2431
    @gaytie2431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    anyone recommended this while in quarantine for covid-19???

  • @cjdfv
    @cjdfv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Covid-19: "Hold my White Claw."

  • @SweetLilWren
    @SweetLilWren ปีที่แล้ว

    Your channels so much better back this time

  • @elspethgraham9531
    @elspethgraham9531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    In Samoa this week, 39 children got red measles. 35 of them died. I am immunodeficient and can get almost every viral or bacterial infection. I hate hearing about people not vaccinating their kids. I got red measles when I was 17 and got very very sick. Should have been in the hospital with a 105 degree fever, but there was nowhere to put me into isolation.

  • @xjdfghashzkj
    @xjdfghashzkj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "The highways out of New Jersey were completely jammed up with people trying to escape"
    That's normal.

    • @ashley-yv1xg
      @ashley-yv1xg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Blackburn this is true. You know it’s a normal day in New Jersey when the highways are jammed up

    • @notdaveschannel9843
      @notdaveschannel9843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As opposed to broken heroes on a last-chance power drive.

  • @k.k.rehmeyer209
    @k.k.rehmeyer209 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode

  • @tylerhartman3327
    @tylerhartman3327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is so underrated

  • @donsample1002
    @donsample1002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grandmother was living in Boston, during the last North American Smallpox outbreak, and lived through the Spanish Flu, as well. It was the Spanish Flu that scared her.

  • @johndavis6119
    @johndavis6119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +760

    The anti-vaxers gonna hate this.

    • @phyllisdevries5734
      @phyllisdevries5734 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Benu_Bird I was born in 64" last century I wonder if I should, ask my Dr. about such things? Curious though

    • @hunglikehorse4339
      @hunglikehorse4339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Benu_Bird weird how people with the measles vaccination still get it.... Hmmmmm.

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@hunglikehorse4339 You're right. It only protects 97% of people who get it. It's totally useless. 🙄

    • @Caperhere
      @Caperhere 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hush, lol.

    • @snonsig2688
      @snonsig2688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@hunglikehorse4339 because the vaccine isn't 100% effective. about 3% of people that get the vaccine get measles later in their lives

  • @sno6762
    @sno6762 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bro the YT algorithm is on its game today

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The music is making me happy.

  • @TerenceClark
    @TerenceClark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As a fun note, Yersinia Pestis is still present in rodents in several places in the world. Some you wouldn't expect. At the Grand Canyon there are signs warning that the local squirrel population carries it. Which is particularly problematic because that species of squirrel is very gregarious and is not afraid to approach and even climb on park visitors with regularity. And yeah, I know it's not the rodents, but the fleas that are the problem. But that's one tick closer than I want to get to the plague, thankyouverymuch.

    • @lynnlytton8244
      @lynnlytton8244 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's also endemic in prairie dogs. I think they're very cute but I am OK with not touching them ever.

  • @vvinny8
    @vvinny8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Maleria killed half of all humans that ever lived?! I'm a survivor!! Feeling lucky

    • @julienckjm7430
      @julienckjm7430 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you ever suffered from malaria?😅
      (I have!)

    • @julienckjm7430
      @julienckjm7430 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @grumpy old fart It's so bad how someone feels as he suffers from malaria, really annoying!😅😅

    • @jesussaves1875
      @jesussaves1875 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live in a small town and we've just had 40+ cases in the last month, including my son !

  • @JamesJones-og3kc
    @JamesJones-og3kc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like your style please keep it up!

  • @pisces3786
    @pisces3786 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great info ✅

  • @guidotana5521
    @guidotana5521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    15:11 actually you got it right. Vacca IS STILL italian for Cow, albeit it's a slightly less used - and more vernacular - synonym of the main word for Cow, which is Mucca. Of course it was also the same term in Latin, but in every contemporary italian vocabulary you will find Vacca as well.

  • @MattSinz
    @MattSinz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You shouldn't generalize yersinia pestis as only bubonic plague, pneumonic and septicemic plague were just as prevalent during those outbreaks.

    • @stormisuedonym4599
      @stormisuedonym4599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He referred to the protozoan that causes malaria as a "bacteria".
      Generalizing the Black Death is the least of his sins.

  • @polacoddgo
    @polacoddgo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved the video! Now I'm a whole lot smarter...thank you!

  • @catlovingtrio
    @catlovingtrio ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You forgot to mention the part where the "War of the Worlds" panic never happened.

  • @roba4295
    @roba4295 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The editing on your vids is really good. Thumbs up and subbed!

  • @j4eyes1
    @j4eyes1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this stream. This one was particularly interesting, being about infectious diseases..

  • @RyanBlackhawke
    @RyanBlackhawke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mother told me about the whole War of the Worlds broadcast. She was a child.

  • @TheRealUnknown01
    @TheRealUnknown01 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    well this video is going to make a huge come back