You raise a good point.
What happened right after the 1918 pandemic? The Roaring 20’s! And then came 1929.
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes.
I think something similar happened after the Black Plague.
In many cases, it resulted in a loss of faith.
“What happened right after the 1918 pandemic? The Roaring 20s! And then came 1929.”
Actually, there was a crash, then the Roaring ‘20s, then the Great Depression.