no need to wait for vaccinations - Florida did not wait for vaccine roll-out to open their economy up. This reminds me of what brings economies and civilizations down - Fear.

Here is a quote form historian Kenneth Clarke:
It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about the nature of civilization.

It shows that however complex and solid it seems, it is actually quite fragile. It can be destroyed.



What are its enemies?


Well, first of all fear — fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine