> Again, this is an unprecedent event. Nothing in recorded history has had the potential ramifications for society that this virus does, short perhaps of the black plague of the middle ages. This virus will test civilization.

There’ve been the SARS in 2002-2003 which infected 8000 people and killed 600 ones in 28 countries. It has had such a negligible impact on civilization that most people don’t even remember it.