Idon’t know how many lightbulb moments I’ve had over the past several weeks since the pandemic set in. “Reality checks” and realizations have poured over me in waves. But this week’s turning point moment felt different. It all began when I started associating COVID-19 with the Plague. Yes, the Bubonic Plague, the 1347 Black Death that raged across Europe until at least 1350, causing an estimated 25–30 million deaths in its first wave.