The pestilence was a plague called the bubonic plague that started in 1346-who knows. But there are actually many pestilences as a fact it's very strange, covid-19 might just be another pestilence. The great plague of 1665 another "pestilence" aka a plague. There are many of these and 049 originated from these times and has been around for thousands of years, he still thinks there is a pestilence but finds it in everyone. I think we, we are the pestilence to scp 049
