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by throwaway6734 1267 days ago
The spread of disease was guaranteed to happen sooner or later. Europe and the middle east went through the same thing, just earlier in time
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idontwantthis 1267 days ago
Not nearly as bad in Europe. The Black Death killed 1/3. Pandemics may have killed 95% in America.
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throwaway6734 1267 days ago
Other pandemics were raging across Europe for the thousand years before that. For example, the Antonine plague and plague of Justinian
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