Holly Gilchrist’s Reviews > Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History > Status Update

“The difference was not so much in the virulence of the virus as in the complexity of the 21st-century world; we live in a social and economic system that is so tightly bound together, so dependent on ceaseless movement of goods and people, on ‘just-in-time’ planning, that the disruption of an unchecked pandemic - especially on overstretched health care systems - would be even worse than…” page 10