Covid and global warming! The infernal couple! This is the new antiphon serinated by the hierarchs of ecology. Fire all wood, buggers!

   However! I did not quite understand what they were getting at. Perhaps to this: since we have been able, to fight against the coronavirus, to confine ourselves and stop using, we can do the same thing to fight climate change. This promises us to be delightful economic and human disasters.

   To convince us of this, there is nothing like an indigestible gloubi-bulga uttered by two young thurifers of the new religion, that of the climate. Claims in spades without an ounce of scientific proof. Their only endorsement is that of a biologist who repeats the creed of ecologists. Nothing! For example, the claim that the invasion of the tiger mosquito in our countries is due to global warming. This mosquito was imported in the early 2000s from Asia, via Italy. The tiger proliferates thanks to stagnant water, primarily urban while other species prefer marshes. Provided that the water, fresh or brackish, stagnates in a bowl, a slab, a container, a puddle, is heated to 25 ° C by the sun, the females lay eggs. The Diptera frolicking between 18°C and 30°C. That's why he is guilleret everywhere, except Iceland and Antarctica. In the sixties the Narbonne region was invaded by mosquito squadrons. In the seventeenth century, malaria, transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, ravaged the valley of Chevreuse and in particular the nuns of the Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs, not far from that for men of Vaux de Cernay (place transformed into a hotel that I recommend). It was overcome thanks to the sanitation of the surrounding swamps (hence the name malaria for the disease). On the other hand, the ban on DDT, wanted by environmental groups, caused the resurgence of malaria in Africa (especially in Mali today) while it was in the process of eradication.

   The tiger mosquito does not spread malaria. It should be noted that the diseases of which it is the vector, chikungunya, dengue or zika, are present, at present, in the hexagon only on carriers infected elsewhere and brought back to France. Not by the hexagonal fawn. Exactly the same as for the rare cases of malaria diagnosed here. Only females – during the day for the tiger, unlike other species that are active in the evening – are capable of dive bombing at 2.5 km/h, contaminating themselves with these viruses only by having previously loaded the bomb on an already infected person (the mystery of the chicken and the egg that persists). So, if it is certain that a risk exists (like fire burning or electricity tickling), it is no more important than seeing our local mosquitoes spread malaria again. But it can come, of course, without incriminating the climate. For the moment the bites of mosquitoes, tiger or other, remain benign, contrary to what the two radio cousins claim. It is enough to thoroughly and vigorously disinfect the crater as soon as the bite of insect has taken place. This may result in reddish budding, more or less important depending on whether you are allergic or not, the itch of which will disappear quickly. Unpleasant certainly, hence the irrepressible desire to crush these suicide bombers – despite the different opinion, because he distinguishes a mother feeding her young like vampires, from Aymeric Caron laughable vegan.

   No, the planet is not doing badly despite these mosquitoes. It is a view of the mind to affirm it. Nature does not know balance. She is constantly evolving. If a forest burns, it will grow back. Drought follows floods, and vice versa. The ice melts in summer and regenerates in winter, although Greenland was once covered with hazelnuts, vines and magnolias. Cambodia's temples are digested by the forest. The coasts are eroded here, and there silt up. If the oceans rise, they will drop later. Oil that accidentally slicks the sea will be assimilated. Even plastic will disappear. Volcanoes ejaculate and then calm down. In short, we can do nothing about it and if one day a highway is abandoned, be sure that it will disappear under the growth of plants. As for the air we breathe, it is composed of 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen and various 1% gases including CO2 for 0.004%. Time does not exist for nature. We are impatient, not her.

   To contradict the nonsense spewed about the coronavirus, it is now accepted that one of the species of bat is at the origin of it and then transmitted it to the pangolin which passed it on to humans. Just before him, another coronavirus was transmitted via the civet infected by another bat. We also know that all bats harbor a lot of viruses (Ebola, rabies, etc.) and that two species more specifically host 46% of coronaviruses. And they are many because their family is huge; viruses with multiple tropism (respiratory, enteric, neurological and hepatic) classified into three groups, the one that currently affects us does not belong to any of them. They can infect all vertebrates and some humans.

   Many pandemics descend from Asia (that of the so-called major smallpox for example comes from there, the minors coming from South America and Africa) and more specifically from China for respiratory viruses because of ancestral culinary and societal practices. The flu of 1919 with its fifty million deaths, wrongly called Spanish, comes from there. The epidemics of 1957 and others that followed, including that of 1968, claiming millions of lives around the world, came from China. It is opportunistic and lying to blame climate change. Men have always lived in the vicinity of animals, whether domestic, farmyard, stable or wild. It is not a hypothetical deforestation that dumped pangolins on Chinese stalls and into the bowls of the hungry. Nor are the African monkeys, grilled as sources of HIV. In Australia, where the population is encouraged to eat kangaroos in order to stop its proliferation which becomes harmful, to the delight of ecologists who see it as a global rescue by reducing CO2, we forget to specify the danger run by gourmets, infested that are these marsupials prolific by E. Coli, Salmonella or Toxoplasma. On the other hand, the absence of tourists in Thailand during the lockdown made flocks of monkeys who were no longer fed fight. Did any of them previously spread any disease by approaching these ecstatic tourists? Maybe, but no one cared. If the natural habitat of a species is destroyed, either that species migrates to another country, where the vast world is rich, and adapts, or it disappears. Similarly when a couple is displaced, voluntarily or not, by tourism, trade or storms. Noah, like his mythological alter-egos, Mesopotamian, Sumerian and others, had seen right in embarking couples for reproduction. The animal approaches man only by the manias of the latter, which are to feed him, to domesticate him, to feed himself without precaution. Caressing your cat or dog diffuses into the ambient air a possibly pathogenic cloud that we breathe at the top of our lungs.

   As for the frequency of these epidemics, there is no indication of any increase. There have always been (syphilis, for example, which we know since 2008 with almost certainty now that the bacterium was imported from America by C. Columbus or the Black Death due to a bacillus walking along the Silk Road) and there will still be at different times, which are spaced out, closer, move away again to emerge later. That's the way it is. And if there is to be a struggle, it is not by telling us untruths or imitating the madness of Don Quixote against windmills – which strangely we like to reproduce, build and venerate with great erects of wind turbines nowadays. To better ignore probably that all this commotion will serve to stir the wind if not to produce anything else properly.

   If there is to be a struggle, it is the one waged by science and not by fear.