Re: An elephant in the room @W@Ido
Actually, if you compare how quickly this pandemic spread around the world with previous pandemics, there isn't that much difference. People have always done international travel. Sure we now use planes that take hours rather than boats that take days, but in the overall scheme of things, it doesn't speed things up that much.
News definitely travels a lot faster though. When there was an attempted coup in the US a couple of days ago, the pictures of it reached my YouTube Live window a few seconds after it happened, whereas previously it would have taken maybe a week for it to reach the newspaper in my local grocery shop.