Smallpox was endemic not pandemic.
“Smallpox was endemic not pandemic.”
I may be wrong, but I thought there were periods in the 17th and 18th century when smallpox was widespread across many nations in surges. Doesn’t that make it a pandemic.
Also, I think that the smallpox ravages of native americans after the early Spanish landings qualified as pandemics.
That said, it doesn’t change that the author is ridiculous calling COVID the worst pandemic in history. Spanish Flu and the Black Death were unambiguously far, far worse than COVID.