Idea 💡. For us changes in temperature due to climate change are somewhat manageable for now. But for microorganisms could be a catastrophic change. Thus maybe the natural predators of viruses became extinct or are close to be extinct. Without the natural predators, the overall viral load increase. More viruses, more diseases.
@tavoglc What should we do?
@skanman Individually, try to be as healthy as possible, eat less process food and more probiotics, face masks in poorly ventilated spaces. Collectively I don't know. I just think we are more susceptible that we think we are.
@tavoglc on a macroscopic perspective, your logic is sound. Gathering momentum to make a difference collectively is my business. Although people might not take action even if you perform the research and give solid data, all you have to do is come up with correlations to other datasets that people care greatly about. Although climate change is a hot topic, the only people actually making a difference are corporations disguising saving money as "going green". The health care industry will fight it with everything they got because they like sick people. Notice all the pharma stocks are at all time highs?
So here's an example of how you might do that if you get your data. There would be provable correlations here, I guarantee it.
"Global warming is decreasing UV filtering which increases the viral mutation rates while organic antiviral species of are dying off, thus accelerating the mortality rate of an ever expanding population of current and future pathogens."
This statement reverses the position of the healthcare industry completely because a sick customer is a good customer, a dead customer is a bad customer. Cool eh?
Unfortunately, on an individual level, I travel a lot for work. Despite always wearing masks, I'm still exposed to people from everywhere, and my stress level is off the charts. But the probiotics idea, I love yogurt, great tip 👍. If you're serious about this, qoto is full of scientists in these fields who could help you gather and cite the data. Then right a paper, send it to journals for peer review, then call AP News and say, "you should read this paper, it's fascinating" and watch the magic happen.
