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This pandemic has made me start to consider some "what if" kind of questions. To put it in context the last major pandemic (Spanish flu) caused a paradigm shift in the way society worked, the demand for labour outstripped supply meaning that workers could choose who to work for and demand higher wages. It was the end of many of the great country estates as the workers had either died of the flu, died in the trenches or seen had more of the world and had expanded their horizons.
I believe that this pandemic is more of a warning of what could have been than a full blown mass killer. It is thought to kill in the region of 2% of people that it infects, it could have been so much worse if such an easily transmitted virus had a higher percentage death toll. Two percent is bad enough but what if it had been 60% (maybe governments might have taken it more seriously)
I believe that this pandemic is more of a warning of what could have been than a full blown mass killer. It is thought to kill in the region of 2% of people that it infects, it could have been so much worse if such an easily transmitted virus had a higher percentage death toll. Two percent is bad enough but what if it had been 60% (maybe governments might have taken it more seriously)