Children of survivors

It's not hard to find thinkers who blame the pandemic on climate change, deforestation, and other regrettable inventions of modern humanity.

Those theories have a very fragile foundation, for two reasons.

The first is that epidemiology shows that the pandemics of the last hundred years are the consequence of the enormous increase in human mobility that has developed during the 20th century, with the generalization of trains, cars, airplanes and subsequent human flows. , which can bring a virus from a Chinese market to Canada in a matter of hours.

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