What effect will Bubonic plague have on London house prices?

silverwhistle

Well, I had a dead fox in my garden yesterday. I'd eat road kill pheasant but fox? Plus it might have been poisoned. Anyway, I gloved and masked up and it is now triple bagged waiting for the council..They are at liberty to do a post-mortem if they wish..



I suppose it could have been rabies...

PasturesNew

Wages go up when there's a shortage of labour. That's what happened in the 1660s Plague. Before then peasants needed to have the Lord's permission to even leave the village. Post-plague workers were lured away by other Masters for higher wages.

Many people forget that we in England used to be the equivalent of slaves. You could live on the land with the Lord's agreement, in exchange for a tithe of what you produced. It was nigh on impossible to move elsewhere as you needed permission to leave the village - and where were you going as you had no maps or plan or savings.

But, once many had died, Lords found their lifestyle had dropped when they weren't receiving the tithe on the graft of the villagers, so they tempted new ones in with promises of work/jobs, wages and land/homes.

phillw

BobQ wrote: »

WE have never had Bubonic Plague when antibiotics have been available so who knows?

What if events unfolded that made it more expensive or difficult to import drugs from another country?

Malthusian

phillw wrote: »

What if events unfolded that made it more expensive or difficult to import drugs from another country?

It is more likely that the global stockpile of antibiotics will be stolen by Terminator robots bored of playing chess against each other, than that politicians will block the import of drugs for no reason other than fulfilling Remainer fantasies of punishing the serfs.

Jackmydad

BobQ wrote: »

WE have never had Bubonic Plague when antibiotics have been available so who knows?

Well not "we" as in here, but they get it in plenty of other places. Not as a pandemic though.
Antibiotics are effective in a lot of cases, but it's still fatal to many who get it.
https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague

malkie76

When a parody thread predicts the future........... Only I went for something bacterial, rather than something viral!

paparossco

waamo said:

I popped into Tesco earlier and it looks like they have taken all the Marmot off the shelves. At least I couldn't see any between the lamb and pork anyway.

You saw lamb AND pork on the shelves!! What branch?? 😉