The Great Dying

Lindsay and Madison discuss the pre-Thanksgiving tragedy that was The Great Dying, as well as the dangers of introducing foreign disease, that it’s gross to say plagues are “part of God’s divine plan,” and how devastating a single drop of pee can be (listen and you’ll get it).

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2020 The Conversation article by Matthew Patrick Rowley
• 2014 Cult Nation article by Mark Laskey
• 2012 Slate article by Madeleine Johnson
• 2010 Emerging Infectious Diseases article by John S. Marr and John T. Cathay
• Historic Ipswich on the Massachusetts North Shore article
• New England Historical Society website
• PBS Learning Media resource from The Pilgrims: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
• Wikipedia

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