Originally Posted by
cats_five
We no longer live in those times. Plagues caused massive economic damage and personal grief & suffering. I doubt you would be so blase if you had lived then.
The economic damage and personal suffering back then was similarly disproportionate. That is why people remember these plagues.
The difference today is that we have not had a real crisis for about 75 years, two full generations, so we forget how hard it really is
Fwiw, they are putting up emergency hospital tents in NYC Central Park a few blocks from my place. Blase is not my state of mind under these circumstances.