COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is not he first pandemic nor the biggest. Let's look at the history of Pandemic.
Name When No. of Death ---------- ---------- ---------- Antonine Plague 166 - 180 5,000,000 Plague of Justinian 541-542 30 ~ 50,000,000 Japanese Smallpox Epidemic 735 - 737 1,000,000 Black Death (Bubonic Plague 1347-1351 200,000,000 Small Pox 1520 56,000,000 17th Century Great Pagues 1655 3,000,000 18th Century Great Plague 1817-1923 600,000 Cholera 6 Outbreak 1818 - 1923 1,000,000 The Third Plague 1855 12,000,000 Asian Flu 1889 -1890 1,100,000 Russian Flu 1889 -1890 1,000,000 Yellow Fever Late 1800s 100 - 150,000 Spanish Flu 1918-1919 40 ~ 50,000,000 Hong Kong Flu 1968 - 1970 1,000,000 HIV/AIDS 1981 ~ Current 25 ~ 35,000,000 SARS 2002 - 2003 770 Swine Flu 2009 - 2010 200,000 Ebola 2014 - 2015 11,300 MERS 2015 - Current 850 Coronavirus COVID-19 2019 - Current 5,000 ---------- ---------- ----------
Did you know in 2018, 770,000 people died from AIDS?
Why isn't media and politicians all over it?
Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/