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Why didn't people in the middle ages just avoid the plague like the plague? Were they stupid? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

You see, the phrase didn't exist at the time, so they didn't know they had to avoid it