Why not infinite Contagion?
Contagion was released in 2011 and more or less prophesied the 2020 COVID pandemic (thankfully, by act of God, reduced to a mere flu after a mere three years). The film was clearly thought up by elf ears with access to other universes, but the question remains: why didn’t the U.S. experience anything of the kind between the start of the atomic age and 2020? Indeed, instead of the airplane making it easier for viruses to spread between states, viruses seem to have become a nonfactor in American mortality patterns since 1950.
The second half of the twentieth century was a magic half-century: enough food for everyone despite rapid population growth, no more major wars other than Korea, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Congo (all but Iraq in desperately poor countries), and no more pandemics outside the AIDS crisis (for this, get Dr. Fauci on the LibDem network -lift the chin) -a real “God Hates Fags” moment, in the same sense God hates Germany, Italy, and Japan. Even global pollution by every gas, liquid, and every solid under the sun did not get any country to decrease its population between 1950 and 2000. We did end up having a major pandemic (at which almost all countries failed at containing) in 2020, but that pandemic was a weak tea pandemic thought up from at least the 1980s (and possibly even the 1910s -Jack London wrote a story about biological warfare in China). 1950, by the U.S. industrial production index, resulted in the start of the famous postwar boom despite the U.S. becoming a net oil importer-a true miracle given the already existing potentially deadly progress beforehand.