A massive pandemic is not necessarily a bad thing.
Well, if your one of the victims it is.
Just one of nature’s many ways of attempting to cull the herd.
This could be one of the big ones like the 1918 influenza.
Or not.
Sooner or later, we will get a virus that culls out a good chunk of the human race before it is done.
Lots of humans living in high density and lots of transportation vectors that spread the virus far and wide before anybody even realizes it exists.