The fact that we treat the Black Death/Bubonic Plague like its some sort of european thing is actually kinda wild?

@Satsuma@wandering.shop @Satsuma i mean people still talk about HIV/AIDS like it’s primarily a Western gay thing, so

@Lady @Satsuma@wandering.shop yeah which is part of why I consider this kind of behavior so harmful

@Satsuma @Satsuma@wandering.shop the other day on the news i heard people saying that we needed to acknowledge the COVID virus as a global problem because worker shortages in other countries are what is producing our production delays, so we can thank globalized capitalism for that, i guess

@Lady @Satsuma@wandering.shop that was actually also a thing during the black death too hilariously -- perhaps not the precise framing but contemporary sources spend a lot of time talking about the way the plague disrupted trade through various ways