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Having killed as many as 200 million people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, the Black Death began to lift in the years 1348–49. Europe had lost between a third and half of its people. In many cases, entire villages stood empty, having lost their entire population.
The Black Death changed life forever in Western Europe. With so few inhabitants, the value of labor exploded, and wages shot up. For those who survived, the following half-century was a period of affluence and technological development, with increasing productivity and advances in printing, weaponry, navigation, and manufacturing. The optimism of the late 14th century is reflected in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , a work filled with relish for life and adventure.
The recent coronavirus pandemic does not compare with the Black Death in scale — not yet, at least — but a number of similarities do exist. Scarcity of labor, resulting from government blundering as well as deaths due to disease, has caused huge wage inflation. Hourly workers find themselves in a much better position, and it is unlikely they will accept lower wages when life returns to normal. At the same time, with demand returning and more money in circulation, May’s prices rose at the fastest rate in thirteen years . The CPI continued to rise in June and July at 17.75% and 17.36% year-over-year for June and July, respectively. Those are enormous increases. The only response from the Biden administration is a mad plan to spend more money, causing even greater inflation.
With 600,000 dead in America alone, most of them elderly, estates have passed sooner than expected to younger persons, and the young have been spared the cost of caring for their elders. The annual cost savings of supporting just those seniors living in nursing homes who died due to COVID-19 in 2020 is approximately $12 billion, given that 8% of the 1.4 million living in long-term care facilities died of the disease, according to official numbers — which may be too low, as they certainly appear to be in New York. Though it may sound insensitive to say so, many young […]
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