Eerie similarities with today's Covid19 coronavirus pandemic.

No, I have heard people speak of how the current situation makes them think of various apocalyptic scenarios but I, despite having a bit too much imagination, don't see it. The Happening is another apocalypse, this one without zombies, but the essence is the same; mass death, society crumbles...
Our response to Covid has been vastly more cautious than to the 1918 pandemic, despite the fact that it is only a tenth as lethal. This closing down of so much off our lives and the consequent catastrophic effects on small business, will be worse over time, but it is a slow motion societal upheaval. There have been nearly two million deaths and even if that doubles it will still be less than a quarter of the lowest estimate of deaths due to Spanish Flu (and a twentieth of the high estimates). So most of the effect of Covid19 is about our reaction to it, and even that is different from a situation where the low-end estimate has 1% of everybody on Earth dead in a couple of years - with the vigorous young being the most affected.

I think what's similar is that they all had to spread out and be in smaller and smaller groups.