Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.
Margaret Atwood'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
Margaret AtwoodShe had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
Margaret Atwood