Luckyguy ought to look up 'Speenhamland System'. It was about rich *******'s wage bills being subsidised with the [edit] taxes paid by not so rich sods. One of the old C19 traditions a… (View Post)

Logic fail. Seven times as many 'hands' to get the first one on, six the second ... not sure how it works out for n=8, , though! (View Post)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298133/pdf/11064697.pdf This is interesting, about the Essex outbreaks in the C20. Note the highly active medics. And the ability to intervene. (View Post)

Plague wasn't mediaeval. Well into the late C17. (And C20 in Essex, Glasgow, etc. though fortunately stamped out in time.). Plague was found notably in maritime ports (to begin with, and right t… (View Post)

Shouldn't doesn't mean isn't. The issue as I understand it is not the money in itself but the categorisation - the shifts between working and, in some weeks, nto working at all, which … (View Post)