Fact Not Checked by Janet Mefferd: Bubonic Plague from China

In the 3/11/2021 show, Janet Mefferd interviewed William Federer, a supposedly historian who got quote a few things wrong, like Israel being the first literate nation because the Chinese language has thousands of characters more than the 22 letters in Hebrew. And worst of all, he claimed that the second Bubonic Plague, the Black Death in Europe, came from China in 1331!!! @19:50 time. And Mefferd replied "Sounds Familar?" Supporting Trump's calling out Covid19 as the China Virus.

In the 1300s, the Yuan Dynasty was a mix of the Mongolian late Empire and China. And the plague was believed to be from either Western Yuan Dynasty (You can call it China, it's fine) or Central Asia. Either way, it's the Mongolia or the Central Asia of today. Federer proved himself to be bad with geography and culture. I would think twice to touch his books.

It's a lot of bad historical interpretation basically. A very poor use of the prophetic function.

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