Photo by Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images For every British civilian killed in the Second World War, three died with Covid – the numbers are roughly 70,000 and 227,000. Coronavirus is not in the same grim league as the Black Death, the plague that killed perhaps two million in the mid 1300s – up to four in ten of the entire population. But it killed far more, not as a percentage but in raw numbers, than the Great Plague of 1665-66 that we remember through the horrified writings of Samuel Pepys. That is to say, the pandemic is one...