A sign of the last days

[In Florida] dengue fever is making inroads after a 75-year absence. And, like other mosquito-borne scourges such as malaria and West Nile virus, dengue can disrupt a lot more than a night’s rest.

Dengue fever is also called "Break Bone fever," colloquially.

I wouldn't say that God is sending plagues, but I do think that when we move away from God, we lose the influence of his spirit, which dulls our minds and makes us less able to exercise common sense. We becomes more angry at each other, following every vain imaginations of our hearts, experience stupors of thought. We pursue bread and circuses and let our infrastructure and national defense decline, as happened to the Roman Empire and the Athenian Republic. God is not the angry, destructive god that people associate with the Old Testament. He wept when he had to destroy mankind by flood.