Today’s aesthetic: really enthusiastic historians talking about people who’ve been dead for centuries with disconcerting familiarity, like they personally knew the historical figure in question and possibly still owe them money.
we rlly went from 20gayteen to 20biteen to 20quarantine
fun fact: the word quarantine comes from quarantena, meaning “forty days”, used in 14th-15th-century Venetian language (the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague)
so 2020, or 20 + 20 = quarantine
Fun fact 2#: All mayor plauges have accured every 20 century.
