In my scenario, bees disappear causing crops to not get pollinated and the United States ceases being the world’s breadbasket. In a way, the pandemic and loss of bees would have the same effect. Eventually, without a solution Earth dies. Food will disappear since producers cannot feed the masses. Farmers and ranchers could face death from infection like today. Crops don’t get planted or animals harvested for food due to fear of dying. Civilized man becomes not so civil when he’s hungry. Cities would die on the vine and urban survivors could overrun the country looking for food. In the first volume of Colony, failed crops through lack of pollination, does the same; starvation would be the end result, especially in heavily populated areas. Without bees the world as we know it would cease to exist; much like post-pandemic Earth will be without a cure. People will have no more money or jobs. Either a killer virus or lack of pollination places a slow death sentence on the entire planet. Think about not having a viable answer to the current pandemic resulting in economic collapse, or a fictional world without bees to pollinate the world’s crops. 
 Either tragedy’s end result is having no food being available. In both scenarios, folks will be killing each other for what food remains. In both fiction and real life, neither money nor a job means much if your belly is empty. We all think how superior we are, when in truth, man is a dust mote on the scale of time. For me, finding that the universe is so much more than I is humbling. Kind of puts the importance of a promotion or your next vacation in perspective doesn’t it?