Nothing we are experiencing now compares to what Europe went through when the Roman Empire was collapsing and Europe was invaded by barbarians. And even that doesn't compare to the overwhelming sense of despair that accompanied the Black Death in the mid-to-late 14th century.
True, we can hardly conceive of the collapse of civilization, the death of half the population in some areas. Taking stones of abandoned massive Roman public works for use in one’s house a century later and wondering what happened?