My personal fear is that I live in the United States, and 85%(?) of the population have absolutely NO idea of the carnage and terror of an infectious disease and/or virus that can and does sweep through a population.
We are condemned to listen to politicians and bureaucrats whose prime concern is to continue in place.
When the only way to to quarantine those who potentially carry that dread virus, it becomes NOT a health issue, rather a “civil rights” tag is attached.
Those infected, in vast proportions, may indeed die, but their Civil Rights will be fully protected.
That will make one hell of an epitath.
After seeing an old movie (Jezebel 1938), I looked up 'yellow jack,' aka yellow fever in the US.
A friend of my brother told him how yellow fever just about wiped out a local town where we had lived.
The friend said that there were mass graves on his family farm. He said pits were dug and the bodies were covered with lime. He said he's seen the lime.