Permafrost Collapse, Climate Change and Covid

Covid-19 is a zoonotic disease from bats, but it has no contemporary genetic connection. It may be a radical genetic variant, but the virologists don’t know yet. We know it’s not engineered, that’s obvious to the virologists. We know that zoonosis (animal to human disease transmission) is enhanced by animal crowding from from habitat destruction, and by more animal to human contact. We know that animals stressed by crowding are also being stressed by habitat degradation from climate warming. And then there is the 1 billion acres of permafrost that is likely in collapse right now, thawing out thousands of years of preserved organic material.