Episode 457: The Black Death Part II - Passport to Hell
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The Four Paths to Surviving the Plague
Most maskers took the more moderate third path they didn't isolate themselves completely nor did they corrals openly. They instead carried flowers or fragrant herbs when they ventured outside Which was supposed to ward off the plague. The other group was the ones just wealthy enough to abandon everybody But then they brought the plague with them wherever they went. And speaking of abandonment if someone decided to leave the city while others and their family were sick Family members suffering from the plague would often be left behind to die in the cruelest of ways.
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