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Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's blasted out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

And I'm Sydney McElroy. Well, Sid, there's nothing we love here on Saubones more than a combo.

We used to have these combo streaks that would last like three to four episodes long. So last week, I have to talk about quarantine through the lens of coronavirus.

You stumbled upon a story of a different sort of quarantine.

Well, sort of. Quarantine is one aspect of it. As I was looking through different examples of quarantining events.

I guess it's quarantine. I'll just make up some new terms while I'm talking there. As I was looking through examples of quarantines, I stumbled across one that I had never heard of and it led me to the story of a certain episode of like a disease outbreak in American history that is a pretty famous one.

And somehow we've never talked about and I don't know, I wasn't really, I was vaguely aware of the concept of this sort of thing happening at this time period, but I did not know this exact story of performance in the city multiple times.

That's right. Happened upon this specific incident.

No, and I had the moment where I thought if we're going to go back to Philadelphia, I should save this story for when we go there. But then that seems silly to not talk about it in the hopes that eventually we'd go back to Philadelphia and wait until then.

Oh, listen, we'll be back to Philadelphia. Oh, I know we will, but they have these omniscient donuts there. Not your butt right off your face.

This was such a good story though. So I wanted to talk about the Philadelphia yellow fever outbreak of 1793.

It seems like Gritty probably started it. I don't know how that's chronologically possible, but my early guess is that this is a gritty,

gritty centric, gritty was patient zero. I'm in a guess that you don't know much about yellow fever. If that's your theory.

Okay. I don't think we've talked much about yellow fever on the show. No, no, no. One, so the thing about yellow fever, and this is probably one of the most notable outbreaks, although there were, there was a time when yellow fever outbreaks were not uncommon in the United States.

And we think about, I think a lot of us Americans think about yellow fever is like a tropical disease. It doesn't happen here. It still occurs very frequently in parts of Africa and South America.

And it's not gone. We're not talking about smallpox here. This has not been eradicated. I would guess that a lot of us Americans have fully formed, and cogent opinions and thoughts on yellow fever much like myself every day American.

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