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The black death killed nearly a third of Europe’s population in its time. In comparison to that this Coronavirus seems trivial. All this panic around this virus is the truly scary thing to me. For one, it has shown how effective the media can get people to panic, which then makes people complacent to authoritarian government responses which creates a precedence and a justification for potentially more authoritarian policies in the future. Two, this panic has exposed how fragile our global system is. If a virus with a relatively low death rate is causing this much disruption to the system, then if we had a black plague 2.0, our system would surely collapse. Ironically, medieval European societies were better organized to deal with a plague like that than our modern, global system.

Pandemic followed by a recession followed by a depression.

Better be busy obtaining my weapon permit.