You know, at a time when our country is so divided, at a time when there is very little on which

Americans agree at all, even in terms of just the basic facts of life, at a time when it seems

like it is impossible to generalize at all about a thing being bad or a thing being good.

Can we all agree? I hear by good. Can we all agree?

I hear by posit.

Can we all agree?

That one thing that's bad is the bubonic plague.

Now admit it, you thought I was going to say Nazis there, didn't you?

I know, I know.

But we're now at the point in U.S. politics where that can no

longer be the go-to example for thing we all agree is bad. So I'm going to try to reset a new

baseline for us here in 2025, in the United States of America. Is there anyone out there who does not

agree or who doesn't get that the bubonic plague is a bad thing.

The bubonic plague has its own era in human history, the black death years.

There was an eight-year period in the later part of the Middle Ages in the 1300s when bubonic

plague ripped through Europe. It killed two-thirds of the Middle Ages and the 1300s, when bubonic plague ripped through Europe,

it killed two-thirds of the entire human population of Europe in eight years. It killed 25 million people.

Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that kills you quickly. You get it from a bacteria

that is carried by rodents. They call it the

black death because you get huge swollen lymph nodes and then you start turning black from

gangrene. I mean, literally, it's the worst thing in the world. It's the worst plague to have ever

afflicted humankind in all of human history. And you can still get it.

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