Before everyone starts panicking about the 'Russian Plague'

Before everyone starts panicking about the 'Russian Plague.' Everything we've got is it's Bubonic Plague, pneumonic variant. Possibly partially weaponized maybe. THE BLACK DEATH! Uh... There has been a safe and effective vaccine for this since the 1930s. I had it multiple times when I was in service in the 1980s. It has low side effects and high efficacy. (The opposite of the Covid shots.) IT'S ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT! Well, vaccines aren't antibiotics but... okay. There've been a dozen breakthroughs in counters to resistant bacteria. (And it's a bacteria. Something we routinely conquer, not a novel coronavirus.) All of which means it's going to be containable and if not treatable. As the guy who writes plague books... Relax. Don't let the MSM stampede you again.

— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) October 6, 2026