Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
That's my point. They're not really comparable. People say that it's not super deadly, and therefore we shouldn't care that much about it. These aren't similar things. Sure, they're deadly diseases that were given to us by other animals, but the similarities end there. Just because it's not as deadly as Black Death or Ebola doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about it.I did podcast on this, may be of interest: THE BLACK DEATH (AND OTHER PLAGUE OUTBREAKS)
I think comparing things like this is difficult. In terms of impact, the black death was definitely worse. Obviously though we are much better at managing bacteria today (perhaps in 1,000 years we will be just as good at managing viruses). But we know so little about this virus. We don't really know what the long term impact is, we don't know if it keeps re-activating like herpes or similar viruses. And we don't know what is down the pike in terms of a more lethal strain. Being a virus it is going to be different from the black death. I think best to err on the side of taking a new pandemic like covid seriously. I've known two people who died from it so far. I don't pretend to know the best policy in terms of what we should be doing as a society, however.
I don't know anyone who has died so far, which is incredibly lucky of me, as my county now has more than 7,000 confirmed cases. I'm sorry that you know people who have died from this.