The problem is we are in the 6th Great Extinction and as species of plants and animals die off partially or completely it tends to create pandemics in this process that could also kill human beings like Coronavirus also can about 2% to 5% or more of the time. To the point where we should expect about 50 to 100 million people having died from it worldwide before this is all over. Figures are greatly suppressed so more people just don't kill themselves in depression a lot worldwide but even the CDC thinks the cases are at least 8 times more than we know here in the U.S. which also likely means 8 times as many people have died than we presently know as well partially or completely from Coronavirus.
My wife was speaking to me about West Nile Virus for example. Years ago many bird species were around and this tended to prevent West Nile virus coming into the U.S. However, when certain bird species had die offs, the blue jays and a few others who are carriers of west nile virus but don't get it prevailed. This meant that local mosquitos could bite these birds and then bite humans and humans started getting west nile virus because the birds that actually got west nile virus had mostly died from it and other things where as Blue jays who are carriers but don't get West Nile Virus were okay.
Another change is that when I was a boy it was safe to pet a squirrel mostly even if it bit you here in the U.S. This is no longer true. It's probably not safe to eat a squirrel now either for the same reason because they often carry bubonic plague sometimes also called "The Black Death". So, as more species die off or become less and others take their place in the scheme of things humans become more vulnerable to things like Covid-19, West Nile Virus and Bubonic plague among other things.
It also makes sense that Covid-19 came to be in humans in China because people in Asia often eat everything there including birds and crickets and ants and everything else partly because there are so many people that if they didn't eat almost all species but humans more people would starve to death. So, places like China where people eat everything including dogs and cats and pets of all kinds would be the likely place where most pandemics might start in the future as well simply because most species are already extinct in the wilds there to begin with unless the government finds ways to protect them like they have Pandas.
So, as major species die off or are lessened we should expect many more pandemics in humans this century and after because of the Great Die-offs of whole species or 90% of many species during this century and after. This likely could reduce human population on earth by 90% or even all the way to human extinction this century or the next. So, preparing for future pandemics (at least psychologically) might be a necessary part of human survival strategy on into the future starting now.
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The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.Sep 17, 2010
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