Pandemics: A 16-Post Mini-Course

What Has Been Your Experience? What Can We Learn from History?

1. For Most of Human History, Outbreaks of Disease, Disability and Death Were Commonplace. We had a half-century reprieve, now ended.

2. Killing Masses of Humans: Disease, Drought, Famine, and Climate Change Can Result in End of Civilization. The apocalypse already happened.

3. 541 A.D.: First plague in recorded history killed half the population of the known worl…