The future isn’t as certain as the last 200 years? Just in the previous century we had two world wars, followed by a period with serious threats of all out nuclear war. I’d say we’re not necessarily doing worse than that right now.
What we're facing now is more like a return to what the world has looked for the most of its history.
We’re on par for well over 2 degrees of warming with no real solution in sight, so it remains to be seen how everything will turn out.
Also, “A recent assessment of health information systems capacity in 133 countries found that the percentage of registered deaths ranged from 98% in the European region to only 10% in the African region.” https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covi.... Actual death totals are likely closer to 15 Million than 7.
Thus the real death total is likely around 0.2% of global population which is still quite far from the Black Death etc, but far from meaningless.
Try getting ER treatment in China right now...