ext_308938 ([identity profile] chron-job.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-11-29 10:42 pm (UTC)

Re: Alternate Histories

> The elephant in the room is that the Black Death's first outbreaks
> were in China

Did China loose between a third and two thirds of its population to the Black Death?

If not, then we already have a situation where the epidemic was disproportionately deadly in Europe, as opposed to China. All the author's premise asks of us is to pretend that it was even more disproportionately deadly.

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