RE: era of the pandemic9 Dec 2020 07:25
If anyone hasn’t yet watched David Attenborough’s one-off documentary Extinction, please do.
Excellent explanation of the link between animals and viruses (and climate change too). One of the examples was whenever a new area of deep rainforest is industrialised, there’s a group of loggers who go in first, before any infrastructure is set-up: they have no electricity, no water supply, no food supply. Often these first explorers survive on bush meat (no fault of theirs, just the very tough lifestyle they have to live in that environment). And this is where viruses often start, as we know. And then later on when the forest is further destroyed, more and more animals move out towards urban areas, again increasing the risk of viruses.
Of course the wonderful Sir David tells it so much better than I. Do watch it over Christmas if you can find it on iPlayer - was broadcast this year.