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How 3 Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts

Andrew Latham begins with the Antonine and Cyprian twin plagues, which ravaged the Roman Empire and gave rise to Christianity.

On the eve of the Antonine plague, the empire was pagan. The vast majority of the population worshipped multiple gods and spirits and believed that rivers, trees, fields and buildings each had their own spirit.

Christianity, a monotheistic religion that had little in common with paganism, had only 40,000 adherents, no more than 0.07 percent of the empire’s population.

Yet within a generation of the end of the Cyprian plague, Christianity had become the dominant religion in the empire.

How did these twin pandemics effect this profound religious transformation?

[consortiumnews.com]

Once again with a large growing unemployed labor force the corporations win within the western societies. There's no reason to raise wages in the minds of corporations with such a large unemployment base. Many who have the time will be compelled to dump their savings into a return to some type of schooling with lower service positions available. Attempting to wait this virus out could mean loosing everything they have. Especially if both parents have lost their jobs in a family home. Those of us stuck in the western societies are being taken advantage of in so many areas.

{In a similar fashion, Covid-19 may be accelerating an already ongoing geopolitical shift in the balance of power between the U.S. and China. During the pandemic, China has taken the global lead in providing medical assistance to other countries as part of its “Health Silk Road” initiative. Some argue that the combination of America’s failure to lead and China’s relative success at picking up the slack may well be turbocharging China’s rise to a position of global leadership.}

In China this virus has been basically a hiccup which their economy has been back on a rise for a couple of months now, while ours has needed multiple false manufactured injections of deceit benefiting only the ruling class. Our representatives presently working on another near 2 trillion creation. Not only was the handling of the virus seemingly criminal, but the deceitful injections of ghost money pumped into to fake economy was too. On 2 fronts much money made its way into the wrong groups that supposedly were to help main street, along with countless acts of fraud, also we had discrepancies throughout unemployment payments nationwide. Our governments can't get any fucking thing right.

But hey, when we keep voting for people who fucked up nearly 2 entire decades within wars over lies which they purposely killed millions of innocent people abroad, and our own along with the many maimed and mentally ill for life, how can we expect reasonable results anywhere else. Every president and presidential candidate since Bush Jr has been a criminal proponent to this regard. One might argue Obama can stand outside of these, but he went along with the post agendas in compliance adding on substantially.

William_Mary 8 Oct 11
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