Just caught my attention and listed up the first break-out diseases over a million cases in history (not including second or third wave and less than a million infections). Do you see what I see?
- Black Death mid-1300
- Mexico smallpox epidemic 1519–1520
- New England infections epidemic 1616–1620
- Italian plague 1629–1631
- Great Plague of Marseille 1720–1722
- Boston smallpox outbreak 1721–1722
- Ottoman plague epidemic 1812–1819
- Savannah and Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1820
- First cholera pandemic 1817–1824
- Encephalitis lethargica pandemic 1915-1926
- Spanish flu 1918–1920
- (Hong Kong flu 1968–1970)
- Influenza pandemic 1920-
- Russian typhus epidemic 1918–1922
- Uganda African trypanosomiasis epidemic 1920
- Covid 19 2020-present
Not only repeating itself but liking to break out at the point of time.
Ecclesiastes 1:9-18
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.