The response to the plague was terrible because apparently the government is unable to do anything useful. "The way we've arranged our society means we have be

The response to the plague was terrible because apparently the government is unable to do anything useful. "The way we've arranged our society means we have been unable to cope with a plague." ... "We need to arrange our society differently." I'll never understand this line of thinking, because i can't imagine our siciety ever getting better.