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"Powerful city merchants wanted the silk and cotton cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at Beaucaire and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine"
by null4bl3 6y ago
"Powerful city merchants wanted the silk and cotton cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at Beaucaire and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine"
So they also struggled with wealthy people bending the rules to their will even back then. The same is true today with large parts of the forces behind the "reopen" movement in the US.
- 11thEarlOfMar 6y agoAnd the wealthy class of Wuhan had to have their New Year banquet. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049173/coronavirus-10-new-cases-confirmed-30-more-suspected-wuhan-after https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049173/coro...