https://www.medievalists.net/2020/05/impact-justinianic-plague/
>The new findings from this paper suggest that given the variation in ecological and social patterns across the region (e.g., climate, population density), it is unlikely that a plague outbreak would have impacted all corners of the diverse empire equally.
B-but I would have thought exactly 50% of the local population died everywhere...
Fucking geniuses, ofc there had to be variation.
Anyway one more proofs, written sources shouldn't be taken as is, even if they are primary ones. Imagine a millennia later someone would pull out all the articles written about this recent epidemic, and would blindly accept everything as true...