Pandemics ...

Where did they find the resources to deal with the casualties? The Covid-19 pandemic this week reached a global death toll of 5 million ... although there are some suggestions that this figure is grossly under-reported. Given the media reports over the last (almost) two years since CoVid-19 first hit the global media, that is entirely possible. The question is whether the vaccination programs and measures being put in place will be able to counter the spread and contain it. But even at the conservative figure of 5 million deaths, CoVid-19 seems to not be the worst pandemic the world has seen. The actual figures may not be exact - because how would they keep an accurate track of the casualties over a number of years and locales. The reported totals - highest death toll first:
1347 - 1351   The Black Death         75-200 million
1520 - 1980   Small Pox                    56 million
1918 - 1919   Spanish Flu                 50 million
1981 -             Aids                              35 million
  541 - 750     Plague of Justinian    25-30 million.

So how did these people over the ages have the resources to deal with the casualties? And to record the numbers?