Reply #5: There's no evidence that such a pandemic would

[Spinzonner]

'take out most of the human race'.

There might be catastrophic numbers of death by contemporary standards but that's a far cry from your characterization.

Even the Black Death didn't do such and that was a time with little if any significant medical care, drugs, and vaccines simply didn't exist.

The fact is that the genetically and medically vulnerable died and others survived and the human race went on.