The unfortunate truth is we don’t have to imagine…we are witnessing the FDA in action, which is to say inaction, obstruction, destruction, or action in favor of certain special interests. My reference to the Black Death, while just a statistic in Stalin’s mind, was not trivial. It is estimated to have taken out between 45-60% of the population at the time. BTW, 4 million Ukrainians died under Stalin’s rule. In my book that is both a tragedy as well as a statistic.