Before the Christians descended upon Europe with brutal crusades, bathhouses were common among the pagans. The new Christian overlords forbade their use as a deadly sin and placed medical care and herbalism under inquisitorial punishment. If someone became ill, they were to trust in God, and strictly dictated purity now referred to circumstantial mating rituals based on self-induced chastity. These mating laws consciously or unconsciously served at least to dim the spread of epidemics that potentially develope under such living conditions. People lived in their own filth, close together and skin to skin with animals that also vegetated in their own filth. In fact, almost all of the diseases that are commonly vaccinated against today date back to that time. Measles, for example, is a mutated cattle plague, mumps is originally a sheep disease, whooping cough comes from horses, chicken pox speaks for itself. And indeed, a corresponding decline in these epidemics came synchronously with industrialization and the accompanying reduction in direct, everyday interaction with these animals. The access to hygiene and medical care that we take for granted today in the Western world is still relatively new - and is already beginning to disintegrate.

But back to the black plague: the bathhouses and herb gardens confiscated from the pagans were still used as monasteries by monks for a while. However, the fact that monks were often spared during epedimies was explained by their closeness to God rather than their isolation and their access to hygiene and medicinal herbs. Ordinary people worked hard in the dirt for their bread, which they had not even known before Christianization, and traditionally washed only their feet, hands and face. They were only allowed to bathe in the river, but it was usually polluted and you could catch a cold, which by law you were not allowed to treat. So people never bathed until they had gained and spread all kinds of diseases through their dirty skin. This is how the black plague came about. And had it not been for the fact that rows and rows of high priests fell ill with it, because they also never bathed but liked to maintain secret relationships with prostitutes, the plague might have wiped out the whole of Europe. But there came a point when the misery became so great even among the dignitaries of the church that they sought medical treatment that went beyond the usual bloodletting. This took the form of pastilles made from rose buds. The rose contains as much vitamin C as nothing else that grows in Europe. This was even secret knowledge for a long time and European secret societies liked to use the rose as a symbol for its vitalizing and strength-giving properties.

If Covid were a real threat, we might be enlightened about the essential importance of vitamins A, C, D and E for our body's immune system, instead of being forced to take a poisonous magic potion made of bat wing blood, lizard poop, children's bones and toad eyes, which can permanently destroy the immune system.