Covid-19 is a relatively serious epidemic but historically it is well within the range of health risks which are inseparable from ordinary existence. In Europe, bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera and tuberculosis were all worse in their time. Worldwide, the list of comparable or worse epidemics is substantially longer, even if they did not happen to strike Europe or North America. The pandemic, serious as it was, was well within the broad range of mortal diseases with which human beings have always had to live.
