COVID-19 Is Bad, but We’ve Survived Worse
A historical perspective on a modern pandemic.
4 min readMar 23, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is terrible right now. Entire countries are shutting down, the economy seems to be in free-fall, and everyone is panic-buying toilet paper. On top of that, with a death rate of somewhere around 2%, millions could die. This is a serious thing, and it should be taken seriously.
