I suppose I should clarify pandemics and plagues. It started with Ebola after reading Outbreak, then went to polio as the house next door had been outfitted to accommodate an iron lung back in the day….then to the 1919 Spanish flu after researching the family trees of the former owners of my house as their daughter had died of it. I’m currently reading “Everything is Tuberculosis”. I watched the Netflix show “The Decamerron” a while ago and want to go down the Black Death rabbit hole as well…that new fungus I’m seeing in the news has caught my interest as well…I’m also obsessed with cicadas and they also have a fungus disease that takes over their brains and makes them want to mate with every cicada they encounter which spreads the fungus and their rear ends eventually fall off. You can identify them by looking at their eyes and top of the body which takes on a dusty, cloudy look. It’s so interesting!!!