> We've had pandemics in the past, though not as serious as this one. There have been much more serious pandemics in the past, way too many to even list here.

> We've had pandemics in the past, though not as serious as this one. There have been much more serious pandemics in the past, way too many to even list here. I'll briefly mention two because we know them well in the western canon -- the 1918 flu epidemic and the black death.