“The Perils of Politicizing a Plague - Courthouse News Service” plus 1 more The Perils of Politicizing a Plague - Courthouse News Service Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:30 PM PDT Politicizing a plague has a long, sordid history, dating back to the Black Death. The medieval political mindset of leaders in many countries today indicates that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Death celebrates the bubonic plague, from the "Liber Coronicarum," 1493. (CN) — Politicization of disease has a long, depressing history in what we know today as the Western World. For centuries, it was a series of attacks against Jews — already segregated and ghettoized, forced into a job (money-lending) that the dominant Christian and Muslim populations claimed to abhor — which made it easier, when plague struck, to kill, sack and deport the residents of the ghettoes. While Jews, so far, have escaped this fate during the Covid-19 pandemic,