> Recovery time from those types of events isn't very quick, espeically if the country is underdeveloped - look at how long it took Puerto Rico from Hurrican Ha

> Recovery time from those types of events isn't very quick, espeically if the country is underdeveloped - look at how long it took Puerto Rico from Hurrican Harvey, Joplin from the 2011 tornado, Haiti's 2010 earthquake, etc. Yet we can still talk about those things happening within narrow slices of our own lifetimes. Contrast that with the Black Death that dealt deep enough damage that some parts of Europe didn't recover for generations. Centuries in some cases.