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@IvyLeague RadCentrist. Purveyor of facts. Destroyer of ignorance. Anti-fragile lover of science, humanities, politics…and gifs.

Oct 31, 2022, 7 tweets

Humans didn't "evolve" to inhale bat viruses because—unlike bats—we didn't evolve to live so close together.

Our CURRENT *GLOBAL* population density (~50ppl/km^2) is about the same as Mesopotamia's DENSEST areas.

The human immune system isn't built for constant SARS2 infection.

Simply put, you are not a bat.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Bats regularly form colonies of hundreds to millions, some at densities of 300 individuals per .09 [meter]"

Humans have not evolved over 50 million years to live (and thus breathe each other's pathogen-laden air) like this:
researchgate.net/profile/Paul-C…

So…back to ‘Why You Are Not A Bat’:

More “Lessons from the effective host defence of bats would help us to better understand viral evolution,” from Lin-Fa Wang…

nature.com/articles/s4158…

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