Comedian Lee Hurst's viral tweet about The Black Death

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Has anyone got any pictures of people receiving vaccinations during the Black Death? Surely everyone must have been vaccinated back then or else how did we survive as a species?

twitter.com/LeeHurstComic/status/1405423188297797633

He's very anti-vax and anti-lockdowns (which is his right) but are people really this stupid and ignorant? 2 thirds of Europe died from the Black Death.

It's vaccines that will get us out of this.

A sad man desperately trying to find an audience. Any audience will do...

The black death also has a very good lockdown example - Eyam, the plague village. Very few people survived but they cut themselves off to stop the plague spreading to the surrounding towns and villages. It's well worth a visit, although it is sad seeing the plaques with lists of who died in each house...

Thick as a brick

That's low. It might have been long ago, but my god, the BD must have been the absolute worst thing imaginable.

As in low of Lee Hurst, not @MercyBooth .

I remember him being on They Think its All Over in the 90s. I had no idea he was such a massive bellend

Jeez, didn’t realise he was still around. Totally off topic but I used to work at his Backyard comedy club in Bethnal Green as a student eons ago. It was hoot! He seemed so normal and sensible back then.

What a load of utter toss. Although we already knew that, to be fair.

What twit.

That Twitter thread is glorious. He absolutely gets his arse handed to him.

@FlagsFiend

I live near(ish) to Eyam and its such an incredibly poignant place to visit, powerful and yet so sad.

I would recommend "A Year of Wonders" by.....a woman I cant remember! Its a fictionalised version of what happened in Eyam and done with such respect (names where changed for example). The ending is a bit but thats pretty much only the last chapter, the rest is incredible.

I should add that I re-read it at the start of the first lockdown and the similarities left me breathless.

@DdraigGoch

That Twitter thread is glorious. He absolutely gets his arse handed to him.

Yes it is. I thought this one was particularly good…..

@FlagsFiend

The black death also has a very good lockdown example - Eyam, the plague village. Very few people survived but they cut themselves off to stop the plague spreading to the surrounding towns and villages. It's well worth a visit, although it is sad seeing the plaques with lists of who died in each house...

There's no doubt Eyam was in pretty much total lockdown, but a recent podcast I listened to, possibly BBC More or Less, suggested that it wasn't as voluntary as we're led to believe and there were patrols and 'escapes'.