So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational damage is comparable. I’ve found a pretty good one...
It's an interesting theory but there's no good evidence that suggests people considered life cheap and disposable, neither in family nor battle.
https://medievalists.net/2015/06/medieval-warfare-and-the-value-of-a-human-life/…
https/radicaldeathstudies.com/2019/08/20/child-death-and-parental-mourning-in-the-middle-ages/amp/
It doesn’t matter who is dying in this specific pandemic. The system is designed to a priori treat life as having high value by default since you don’t know upfront who will be vulnerable. In Spanish Flu, young people were very vulnerable. With AIDS, young and gay.
High-thought-value. Thank you.
Black Death greatest thing that ever happened for survivors. Opportunistic peasants often appropriated land/titles of dead nobility, who tended to die later but just as surely. Difference is that 1% today typically have far less tangible assets.