• Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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