It is possible that all these pandemics of the past are an artificial genocide to reduce the population and reformat history.
If during the plague of the XIV century it is necessary to hide protective overalls and a respirator, then a nasal mask with a cloak will do just fine.
In the summer of 1346, alarming rumors began to arrive in Europe from the East. The merchants who dealt with the caravans who brought spices and tea from India and China told horrible stories that no one believed in at first. Allegedly, "in the east, next to Greater India, fire and stinking smoke burned all the cities," or about how "between China and Persia, a heavy rain of fire fell, falling in flakes, like snow, and burning mountains and valleys with all the inhabitants", and accompanied by an ominous black cloud that "whoever saw it died within half a day." But then there were eyewitnesses of some kind of plague who fled from Scythia. They testified that “execution from God” began there, and it struck the Genoese in the colonies on the shores of the Black and Azov seas, that people die in three days, covered with painful sores and spots, and immediately turn black after death. However, the winter passed calmly, and they tried not to think about the bad. In the spring of 1347, the situation changed and never returned to its previous state.
A terrible disease that left behind corpses, black as coal, first appeared in the "country of the Hyperborean Scythians" (Tauride Peninsula) and spread along the coast of Pontus, then it penetrated into Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, the Mediterranean islands, Egypt, Libya, Judea, Syria. There was such a mass death of people that, as Boccaccio (1351) noted then, a person who died of the plague "caused as much participation as a dead goat."
On November 1, 1347, the Black Death appeared in Marseilles, by January 1348, the epidemic had reached Avignon, and then the plague rapidly spread throughout France. Pope Clement VI, having ordered to dissect corpses in order to find the cause of the disease, fled to his estate near Valencia, where he closed himself alone in a room, constantly burned a fire to smoke the infection, and did not allow anyone to come to him. In Avignon, the mortality rate was so great that there was no way to bury the dead. Then the Pope consecrated the river and solemnly blessed to throw the bodies of people who died from the plague into it.
By early 1348, the Black Death had spread throughout Spain. By the end of January, plague was raging in all major ports in southern Europe, including Venice, Genoa, Marseille and Barcelona. In the Mediterranean, ships were found full of corpses, drifting at the behest of the winds and currents. One by one, despite desperate attempts to isolate themselves from the outside world, Italian cities “fell” before the epidemic. In the spring, turning Venice and Genoa into dead cities, the plague reached Florence.
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The plague "stepped over" the Alps to Bavaria. In Spain, she overtook the queen of Aragon and the king of Castile. In the first half of 1348, the black death was approaching England. In the spring, she walked through Gascony, where she killed the king's youngest daughter, Princess Jeanne, who was heading to Spain to unite in marriage with the heir to the Castilian throne. Soon after, a plague broke out in Paris, where a huge number of people died, including the queens of France and Navarre. In July, an epidemic swept the northern coast of France. In Normandy, according to a contemporary, “there was such a critical situation that it was impossible to find anyone to drag the corpses to the graves. People believed that the end of the world had come and this world was ceasing to exist.
In early August 1348, the "scourge of the Lord" fell upon England.
During that autumn, plague struck one southern county after another. Dorset and the surrounding counties are nearly extinct; Poole was so deserted that it was only able to be reborn after a century. The clergy and laity of Devonshire and Cornwall "lay down like ears of corn under the reaper's sickle." Scotland held out until the end of the year. The Scots attributed the misfortunes of their neighbors to their weakness, threatening England with a "dirty death." But when they gathered in the Selkirk Forest to ravage the borderlands of England, "their joy turned into weeping when the avenging sword of the Lord … fell upon them violently and unexpectedly, striking them no less than the English with abscesses and pimples," wrote the English chronicler. The following year, it was the turn of the Welsh mountains and valleys, then the plague reached Ireland, striking a huge number of the British who lived there. She barely touched the Irish themselves,who lived in the mountains and mountainous areas, but she also mercilessly and unexpectedly "destroyed everywhere in the most cruel way" in 1357.
In the fall of 1348, the plague swept through Norway, Schleswig-Holstein, Jutland and Dalmatia like a deadly roller. In 1349 she captured Germany, and in 1350-1351. Poland. On the territory of medieval Russia, the plague appeared at the beginning of 1352, "moving" from the northwest to the south. The number of the dead was so great that they did not have time to bury them, although 3-5 corpses were placed in one coffin. The rich gave away their property, even children, and fled to monasteries. By the end of the year the plague had stopped, destroying with its first onslaught up to 1/3 of the population of Europe.
Why did all this happen?
When a plague broke out among the Genoese, they left the city on ships, and spread pneumonic plague across Europe. “Relatives, friends and neighbors hurried to us, but we brought with us deadly arrows, with every word we spread a deadly poison with our breath,” wrote an eyewitness to these events, the notary de Mussi. His version, expressed in the years when it was believed that diseases are transmitted by rotten air (miasms), is successfully combined with modern ideas about the contagiousness (infectiousness) of patients with pneumonic plague. However, everything turned out to be much more complicated.
First of all, the clinic of the plague itself does not agree with de Musy's version. From his description, it follows that the illness in the Cafe proceeded in a bubonic form, i.e. people became infected with the plague as a result of the bite of fleas infected with its pathogen (Y. pestis), and those, in turn, became infected from plague-sick rats. The pulmonary form of the disease appeared only as a complication of bubonic. In many Italian cities, there was no pneumonic plague at all, and tens of thousands of people died from bubonic plague. And then new riddles begin. It has been known since the beginning of the 20th century that the bubonic plague does not "emerge" from its natural foci. Then it turns out that in the middle of the XIV century, the vast and populated areas of Europe were natural centers of plague? This question has already been asked by individual scientists. But only they failed to find an answer to it within the framework of the doctrine of the natural focus of plague, which is still prevailing to this day. Its foundation was the provision on the primacy of animals (various types of rodents) as a reservoir of the causative agent of the plague. But it was not possible to establish the wild rodents known for such a quality, the ranges of which would also extend so far to the north. This doctrine does not answer any of the following questions. Why did the pandemic of the "black death" hit Europe in the same sequence and in the same territories, and at the same time as the first pandemic - the plague of Justinian (531-589)? How do its foci flare up synchronously in very extended territories of Europe, for example, plague epidemics in Moscow and London in the middle of the 17th century? Why, if you shade on the map all the territories in which the plague raged in the XIV-XVIII centuries,do they mainly occupy plains, river valleys and sea coasts?
And, finally, there is another regularity that has nothing to do with the doctrine of the natural focus of plague, but which cannot be erased from the history of epidemics. Both plague pandemics begin against the background of rampant leprosy for several centuries, and an ever-growing number of cases of smallpox. One gets the impression that the plague, as it were, is completing some kind of centuries-old pandemic cycle, in which low-contagious pathogens of slow infections and the highly contagious variola virus are consistently involved.