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One impact was that wages more than doubled, and serfdom became obsolete because of the need for workers.

Only counts if you were amongst the living. Even then, that was years later but the disruption was almost immediate! Just think of no clergy and no one to dig the graves for your loved ones.

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I would strongly recommend picking up a copy (free via Amazon for the e-reader) of Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year”. It is a fictionalized account but details out a number of the procedures that the English towns used to bury the dead, securing the safety of citizens and continue living.