[cuban leaf]

Good info for the most part, but according to new data, his last paragraph is skewed ...
....not as dire now as he predicted

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IOW, the bad stuff only happens in the movies. The real world was not designed by writers. It was designed by God. And our bodies have capabilities ignored in the movies. As one guy mentioned to me about 20 years ago: Those of us alive today are the descendants of the survivors of the plague. We’re a bit tougher as a species.

[Morpheus2009]

If the bubonic plague like what we saw in the Medieval period happened tommorrow magically, we likely would bring it under control via killing rats and fleas really fast and have nowhere near the percent fatalities that Europe had back then.