Bubonic Plague

PLAGUES AND PANDEMICS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/28/2021 • ( 2 )

Plagues are not always pandemics. For a plague to become a pandemic, it has to have spread so widely that no location is spared. A pandemic is a plague (or epidemic) that has run out of control. Back in those… Read More ›

DOOMSDAY BOOK BY CONNIE WILLIS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/30/2020 • ( 10 )

I read this for the first time when it was first published in 2008. It wasn’t available as an audible book yet, though it would be soon. So my first reading was words on paper. It’s the story of the… Read More ›

WHEN AND HOW THE PLAGUE FINALLY ENDED

By Marilyn Armstrong on 06/25/2020 • ( 19 )

I had a great conversation with my mortgage bank today. I’ve got a six month don’t have to pay my mortgage thing, but I can if I want to. I want to. Sometimes I have a hard time doing it… Read More ›

HISTORY AND PLAGUE’S END – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/27/2020 • ( 17 )

It turns out that epidemics and pandemics all end the same way. People get tired of worrying about being sick and say “Life or death, I don’t want the rest of my life to be spent in hiding.” It helps… Read More ›