Covid isn't particularly lethal as viruses go. It's still on its way to killing a couple of million people and doing significant and lasting economic damage. S

Covid isn't particularly lethal as viruses go. It's still on its way to killing a couple of million people and doing significant and lasting economic damage. Something with the lethality of smallpox or Spanish Flu would have been far harder to deal with. It's not at all obvious that - say - supermarket food delivery would have survived without a complete breakdown. It actually did break down briefly in the UK for a couple of weeks in March. Luckily supermarket logistics are mostly managed by rational adults and services recovered over the next few weeks. But I have a Covid souvenir online shopping screen grab from March which says: Number of users in queue ahead of you: 229343 Estimated wait time: at least an hour