The chunk of rock that hit the gulf of Mexico is deemed what did the deed...for the dinosaurs...
Still...
How quickly people forget the epidemics of the past...
the Black Plague, Scarlet Fever, Spanish Flu, Bubonic Plague and so many others...
that wiped out in recurring waves so many ...
our memories will be refreshed shortly I am sure.
We have too many people in too close a proximity to one another.
We have incredibly convenient air travel ...
We have goods and produce transported quickly and easily across the planet...
We have a poor armoury of old drugs to combat now and increasingly more virulent strains and increasingly resistant old foes...and super bugs in the fore waiting ...
All because there is no money in keeping ahead of them...
there is no money in fighting them...
the Pharma corps would be....if there was money there...
So just wait...
We are so overdue it isn't even funny...
and it just takes enough of a kick to the population ...just take out a good chunk of a generation...
to hurt supply chain, production, manufacturing and maintenance ..to send us reeling..
And worse...it used to be that communities could and did conscientiously quarantined themselves if plague were discovered in their community...warning outsiders to steer away and not enter until it had passed.
No one has this sense of community responsibility like that anymore...
It would be impossible to enforce quarantine ...and keep a plague today from rampantly spreading...
Also...it used to be...homes and families quarantined in their homes would have food brought and set in front of their doors...
Who will be so conscientious and thoughtful today to do so?
So ...either the family members recovered and their quarantine lifted..
Or ..the food wasn't taken ...meaning they had died...
and their house burned down to prevent the spread of the plague...
Try burning down an apartment building in our modern age...
Try quarantining people nowadays who enjoy generations of ease and lack of concern over the next meal, who have never been told that they cannot leave a quarantine...
We are so inadequately ready for a plague that has a high mortality rate..
From a bureaucratic, or law enforcement ...
from a pharma , distribution, inoculation, quarantine,
From a supply management system for goods and food..
From a level of preparedness to the general population...
We are no where close to being prepared.

Bogeyman?
Sure...ok...
But it doesn't mean this Bogeyman doesn't exist...

People forget...
Ring-around-a-rosy...
Nursery rhymes created ...and chanted by kids ....about plague...
It is enough to give me the shivers...

Thankfully I live in a big and virtually empty enough country ...in small areas ....away from the few big cities we have...it is easier to quarantine ..to close down areas affected...to restrict free travel during a time of an outbreak...
But the countries with dense and close populations...
It will be an abattoir...