Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today’s pandemic

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Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today’s pandemic

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Rita Greer oil painting of The Great Bubonic plague
In August 1665, Samuel Pepys reports nearly 7000 dead of bubonic plague. But by September, attempts at quarantine were failing. [Oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2009]
In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will
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