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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8037530" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, so, here's a bit of a difference between what we are experiencing now, and what the pseudo-medieval reaction to plagues we expect to be....The Black Death killed something more than 25 million people over the course of five years.&nbsp; Perhaps 30% of the population of Europe died.&nbsp; It took two centuries for the population to recover.&nbsp; There was nothing in human knowledge at the time that could be done to stop it.&nbsp; Covid-19 has killed something over half a million worldwide over seven months or so.The difference is that the impact of the Black Death was undeniable.&nbsp; If you were in it... a third of the population died in front of you.&nbsp; Right now, people dying from covid-19... are not seen. They are someone else, somewhere else, off in the hospital.&nbsp; You don't see so much as a funeral procession.&nbsp; It is invisible.&nbsp; And our cognitive apparatus is not built to take invisible things seriously.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8037530, member: 177"] Well, so, here's a bit of a difference between what we are experiencing now, and what the pseudo-medieval reaction to plagues we expect to be.... The Black Death killed something more than 25 million people over the course of five years. Perhaps 30% of the population of Europe died. It took two centuries for the population to recover. There was nothing in human knowledge at the time that could be done to stop it. Covid-19 has killed something over half a million worldwide over seven months or so. The difference is that the impact of the Black Death was undeniable. If you were in it... [I]a third of the population died in front of you[/I]. Right now, people dying from covid-19... are not seen. They are someone else, somewhere else, off in the hospital. You don't see so much as a funeral procession. It is invisible. And our cognitive apparatus is not built to take invisible things seriously. [/QUOTE]

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