Well, today we have antibiotics, so no, we do not have to fear the original black death anymore. But what we also have today, to mitigate the bonus of medicine

Well, today we have antibiotics, so no, we do not have to fear the original black death anymore. But what we also have today, to mitigate the bonus of medicine and hygiene, is fast global travel and very, very crowded cities, compared to the medieval times. So a highly infectious and deadly disease, we can not treat with antibiotics, would still fuck us up pretty bad. So I agree, covid was a good trial run for a real epidemic.