[pushedx]

increased severity of disease from new pathogens is one result of climate change

[nradov]

Really? More severe than, let's say, HCoV-OC43 or "Spanish" flu?

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104111

[lazyasciiart]

Yes, much more severe. Covid alone had a higher fatality rate than Spanish flu. 2012 MERS had a 30% fatality rate. Ebola strains in Zaire and Sudan have had fatality rates over 50%.

[kelnos]

You can't cherry pick a single century-old example and use that to prove the opposite. That's not how logic and reasoning work.