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Plague at the Golden Gate | Digital Short

San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National, local, and even neighborhood newspapers jump on the story.

But weirdly, no one can seem to agree if it’s actually happening. Depending on the newspaper you read, it could be the start of a nationwide pandemic or an elaborate hoax to destroy the economy. Sound familiar?

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