Folks I know I *know* but chill. Plague has been circulating at very low levels this whole time. It's endemic in some wild animal populations in the US Southwest and every year a few people get it. It's a bacterium and very treatable with antibiotics. It's bad that someone died of it but it's not OH GREAT AND NOW THERE'S PLAGUE. Really, I promise.

(At some point there might be antibiotic-resistant plague and then we can all panic together, but this is not that.)