It is quite funny how decisive and uncontested the actions are, considering nothing has happened yet and the outbreak that sparked all of this is supposedly over.
Also I know it's 5 years after it was written, but thinking that a lot of people dying has no long-term social, economic and political fallout is quite strange. Of course it had.
The end of serfdom in western Europen can be almost directly be attributed to the changed circumstances after the plague.