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>>LinuxB+(OP)
Is it possible that Sars-cov-2 epidemic will eventually save more lives than it cost, through the long term and short term effects of decreased pollution and climate change? If that's true, we have to entertain the theory that the virus was purposefully initiated by a time-traveler charged with averting climate catastrophe through the only means possible.

>>savana+k5
Not really, there are very few climate related deaths.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-nat...

I think more people die from diabetes and covid than climate.

>>Stream+O5
It isn't only climate change. Ambient air pollution causes >4 million deaths per year, per the WHO: https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1

>>elmoml+47
Almost all of that (3.8 million) is indoor air pollution caused by cooking: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-detail...

>>ggreer+Hm
For what it's worth, those cooking indoors with solid fuel are might also be less likely to be cooking anything...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security_during_the_COVID...