2040s (Uncle ggrandpa)

The 2040s (pronounced "twenty-fourties" and/or "two thousand (and) fourties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2040, and ended on December 31, 2049. It was the 5th decade of the 21st century.

Overview
At the beginning of the decade, the Ira pandemic (a virus which mutated off the 1990s Mad Cow Disease) ravaged Eurasia and several other parts of the world, including 1st world countries such as the United States and Europe