But a defining feature of humans is their resilience. To us now it seems obvious that we survived the Plague, but to people at the time it must have seemed incredible that their society continued afterwards.
Indeed, many takes on the effects of the Black Death are that it had a positive impact in the long term.
Well summed up here: “By targeting frail people of all ages, and killing them by the hundreds of thousands within an extremely short period of time, the Black Death might have represented a strong force of natural selection and removed the weakest individuals on a very broad scale within Europe,“ …In addition, the Black Death significantly changed the social structure of some European regions.
Tragic depopulation created the shortage of working people. This shortage caused wages to rise. Products prices fell too.
Consequently, standards of living increased. For instance, people started to consume more food of higher quality.”