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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by galangalalgol on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:48PM (#26921064)
Malaria has killed so many people I don't really care if wiping them out starts a trophic cascade, it would probably still kill fewer people than malaria. If we had to give up condors and bees, I'd still think it a fair trade.
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by georgeam on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:07PM (#26921604)
With the bees will go lots of foods that depend on them for pollination. Bees are very essential for agriculture.
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by galangalalgol on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:50AM (#26925255)
Actually very few of our foods, and none of our staple crops rely significantly on insects for pollination. Grapes for instance, can use insects but don't have significant problems in their absence.
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by bijant on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:35PM (#26927666)
Bees are just another legacy producer ripe for disruption. With recent Progress in AI and Drone technology the question isn’t if Bees get replaced by autonomous Nanobots but when.
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by galangalalgol on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:27PM (#26928375)
I remember when I was a kid the EMP trucks went around to keep the nano swarms down, but most of us got bot-lung anyway.

Even rogue nanoswarms are less worrisome than mosquitos as a vector.

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