TheodoricFriede wrote:You, my friend, would have made things worse.
The fleas that transmitted the pathogen almost never bite humans. The only reason they began, was because the rats started to die off, and and the fleas were hungry enough to jump to humans.
Well you can't say that for certain as in this scenario Venice and cities like her would be much cleaner as along with the teaching about general cleanliness I outlined there would naturally be actions put in place to make the town/city much cleaner.
The thought was to never introduce those rats, and thereby the fleas, to where humans are. If the rats don't thrive in the cities, but in the countryside, the fleas thrive in the countryside as well.
If the rat population dies down and the areas where people are kept clean enough for fleas to not survive then surely the fleas would die off much sooner, if they manage to become a problem at all.
Plus if I am getting every ship to be cleaned out I can also assume that the conditions where fleas could thrive with high soaps and alcohol based cleaning (such as I outlined earlier) the fleas may die off all the sooner.
TheodoricFriede wrote:No offense TTTX, but I'm going to go with the historians on this one.
Cant remember the name of the book. Something about Justinian.
Well there was the Plague of Justinian, but that happened in the 500's, nowhere near the 1400's.
And even then that affected the Sassanid and Byzantine empires. Not Europe.
TheodoricFriede wrote:I could kill you right now with my bare hands, and feel nothing.
Well there is no need for that animosity purely for the mention of reading other accounts.
Especially when the account you're quoting/paraphrasing from you can not seem to remember at the time. That's not to mention that all this is a thought experiment, I wonder how steamed you'd eb if we asked you to read two books on another issue...