There have been 3 flu pandemics since 1918: 1957, 1968, 2009. In addition, cholera and AIDS have had non-influenza pandemics in the same timeframe, and there's a clutch of infectious diseases with little spread that qualify as pandemics by the definition of sustained spread in two countries in different regions of the world (e.g., mumps). MERS might also qualify by the definition.

> We have hundreds millions of people basically teleporting between continents every day

That's hyperbole. In 2019 there were 4.5 billion passengers boarding a flight[1]. Divide by 365 days and you get on the order of 10 million per day, most of which will not be intercontinental.

I don't disagree about the amount of air travel nowadays facilitating pandemics, just wanted to get the numbers straight.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-...

You are arguing a very minor point.

I appreciate the feedback, it feels better than getting only downvotes. I thought it was an important point because the number was off by at least an order of magnitude, maybe two. But I can see how my response might have been seen as pedantic.

>> pointless massacre

You’re implying as if wars happen because people are all angry and if they just happened to be kinder then all of that would be resolved immediately.

It’s discounting a bunch of pragmatic reasons a lot of which have nothing to do with philosophy or human condition.

Not immediately, but life was worse for basically all participants (at least the major powers that precipitated wwi)