… for the current state of affairs affecting you, you might want to consider the source of the major global epidemics of the last 20 years.
| Epidemic | Started | Year |
| SARS | China | 2002 |
| bird flu | China | 2005 / 2011 / 2016 |
| swine flu | Mexico | 2009 |
| mers | Jordan | 2012 |
| zika virus | Africa | 2015 |
| covid-19 | China | 2019 |
Notice a pattern?