Plague Dr
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Michael Anthony Alberta wrote this book to construct a sovereign nation on the high seas. Unfortunately, he only got as far as its foundational narrative, more like a horror story. According to Mike, humanity experienced continuous growth after a horrifying famine and plague 666 years ago. The House of Medicis chief physician was said to have invented PPE (personal protective equipment) to protect him from the Black Death. Mike suspects this costume served multiple functions for Plague Dr, mainly to conceal his identity.Who was he? Mike envisions him as the 15th-century polymath, Leon Battista Alberti. As the 1st humanist, he epitomized the Renaissance Man. Albertis treatises provided practical handbooks in the Dark Arts. One book, De pictura, contained the 1st scientific study of perspective. Perhaps his most substantial contribution was drawing the map Paolo Toscanelli sent to Christopher Columbus. Alberti took holy orders and entered the service of the Vaticans papal court. During this period; Mike contends the Medici sponsored Albertis fabrication of Western Civilization. Mike also suggests events attributed to the so-called Ancient East occurred during the Renaissance.Speculatively, Mike theorizes that humanitys shift toward behavioral modernity occurred after this viral outbreak. Maybe hes right and we couldnt have made sense of anything after the Pest (Great Plague). Traumatized, we might have been in a state of collective schizophrenia, displaying the psychological aspects of zombification. For example, Tuberculosis (consumption) was said to cause visitations from dead family members who ate themselves to death.Those who were disease-ridden, displayed the physical aspects of (what wed consider) zombies. Bubonic, septicaemic and pneumonic infections that resulted from Y. pestis, also known as the Pestilence (Pest) appeared as skin bubbles that oozed pus and gushed blood as they popped from growing too fast. I find it hard to distinguish th
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