Josh Clark

And like I think we all are, but I haven't even been in a store like on an aisle where someone's like sneezed because I would and probably unreasonably, you know.

to yell at that person.

But I haven't even seen anyone, been around anyone that sneezed.

Yeah.

So that's been a comfort.

Yeah, Yumi went to the store and came back and said somebody sneezed twice and the whole store just started looking around like where did that come from?

Yeah, it's weird, huh?

Yeah, there's basically like a stampede or something to get away from that thing.

It is, it's a weird time to be alive.

We're all going to be very, very weird even after things go back to normal, I think.

I know I will be.

Yeah.

So should we talk a little bit about culture and, you know, sort of what people say all around the world?

I know here in America it's sort of custom to say God bless you or bless you.

And that, you know, there's some different explanations.

But one of them that seems to hold water, I think, dates back to the Middle Ages with the Black Plague when Pope Gregory VII basically said –

hey, everyone, you know, things are pretty bad.

We should just, we should say God bless you if someone is sneezing because they might be dying.

Yeah, which is, from what I saw, a big departure from earlier Christian teachings, which taught people to just totally ignore sneezes.

Or say God is dead.