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I'm having a plague phase. Recently read the plague by Camus, then Daniel Defoe's diary of a plague year. Now I'm reading the great mortality by John Kerry. I'm only about a third in but it feels like an approachable history of plague. I find something horribly fascinating about plague. It was maybe the worst shit we've ever had to deal with as a species, truly apocalyptic.
The Last Podcast on the Left did an incredible series on the Black Plague. I know this is a book thread but it reminded me because The Great Mortality is one of the primary sources on it.
Cheers I'll give it a try, I listen to podcasts at work.