Thanks for the responses. Of course, things like the flu in 1918 and plague etc were things we’ve learnt about at school etc but I wonder if it is because of sochal meeja and modern science (meaning we have to ability to create vaccines and treatment) that the world appears to have come to a crashing halt and stopped spinning?
I guess my question more related to the appearance at least that, since the Spanish Flu, it has taken another 100 years or so for such a significant and rapidly spreading, human destroying virus to have mutated and jumped across to humans (or wherever it came from). Aside from things such as Ebola and bird flu (which appeared to be relatively contained by comparison), we have seen in 12 months already at least 5 mutations alone of this one virus (and probably 100’s more not yet detected)
Just general pondering that’s all...
HB
