• Norgur
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    910 months ago

    Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton’s lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.

    So the meme is accurate enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don’t think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D