The Antinine Plague

I think what I love about Astox is that they were real people writing Real things in the real world that they live in which is although very different from ours not that different from ours. So um Obviously I intellectually understood for instance that marx realist was writing during a pandemic and then he may have even died of it. But it's not until a pandemic happens in our lifetime that you realize like, oh, he's not figuratively talking about the plague He's also Literally reacting to what a global pandemic would do to human beings. The idea that some of these people who uh, well, they they also got covid, but they got they got something worse than