Timeline for AIDS vs Great Plague in medieval period
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 7:54 | history | edited | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 6:37 | comment | added | Blade Wraith | @LorenPechtel, don't forget Bruce Forsyth! | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 7:11 | comment | added | JBH | @Rekesoft "Apart from some politicians..." +1! | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 6:56 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @LorenPechtel In the long run, we all die. How many people of the medieval ages is still alive today? Apart from some politicians, they're all long dead. A plague is a disease capable to wipe out a lot of people from the same generation. If it kills a lot of people through several centuries... well, everybody dies one day. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 0:19 | comment | added | JackArbiter | The "average lifespan" from birth was 31, but from 1200-1300 in England, once someone hit 21 they had an extra 43 years or so of life expectancy (due to the black death, from 1300-1400 this was reduced to an extra 24 years) books.google.com/… | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 0:17 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Bubonic plague would kill a lot faster but I'm not sure it would kill more in the long run. | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:57 | history | edited | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:50 | comment | added | JBH | @Mellester, I stand by my answer. The OP asked if AIDS erupted at the same time, would it have been more or less deadly? The answer is a resounding LESS because it requires time to develop and its transmission factor is considerably slower. If you believe I've misunderstood the OP's question, the I suggest you ask the OP for a clarification. After all, he's comparing it to the Black Death. If AIDS can't wipe out 2/3 of Europe's population in the same time period, then it utterly fails the test. | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:47 | history | edited | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:47 | comment | added | Mellester | Yeah but the question is which one is more deadly. Not which one is quicker in killing more in a choosen time frame @JBH | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:40 | comment | added | JBH | @Mellester, noticability is irrelevant. Only communicability is relevant. The average lifespan in 1300 was 31 years. A disease MUST spread quickly to be a plague. Stealth only means blocks of people (not Plaque-level at all) will suddenly die for unknown reasons every 2-3 generations, but that's it. You'd never lose 2/3 of your population to it in one go. | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:32 | comment | added | Mellester | Its symptoms however where ten times more obvious than AIDS will ever be. Its estimated HIV could have gone unnoticed by researcher for over a century. So AIDS would simply go global just very slow killing people After they had already given birth and raised children. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 18:20 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |