Death rate from Covid about .0003% of total populations. Has a survival rate between 97 and 99%.
Death rate from Black Death somewhere between 30 to 60%.
Author wanted so desperately to use the analogy to the Black Death that they abandon all rational thought to try and make it.
They failed....badly.
A guy I work with tried to compare Covid to the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. A comparison just as stupid.
First of all check out my Comment 24. Also, I am currently reading Barbara Tuckman’s, A Distant Mirror. It covers the 1300s which suffered so from the Black Death. The social Dislocation was horrible, and all segments of society were fighting each other thru thet Century. To some degree I see that happening currently.