I am a bit surprised by how this is phrased. I would have expected that the relation between the pandemic and Africa is a bit more complicated than being reduced to a relation with food. Geography, density of population, climate, etc.. Many enter this complicated equation. Also, Africa has also a story of being used to deal with epidemic.
Anyways, this is a quite interesting point that should probably enter the unknown equation.
Cheers!
@lemouth thank you for taking your time to read the piece and your comment is appreciated. I feel there is a need for me to respond to the point you raised about relying the entire write up to food alone. The piece only suggested that food could be the reason for the reduced mortality as well as the haphazard organization of our environment (Africa). I can tell you for a fact based on personal observation and as a trained ''Botanist and Environmentalist'' that I have seen some Nigerians scavenged plants (vegetables) and fruits from near dumpsite for food as a result of the entrenched poverty in Africa continent. Meanwhile, the etiology of diseases related to microbes showed that once attacked or ridden by a particular microbe in the human genetic system and the patient overcome the disease along the line, such disease cannot attack the patient in the nearest possible time because the human genetic system has built resilience and the causative organism is no longer seen to the body as ''foreign'' that can cause another breakdown in the human genetic system. In any case, the piece was just to advance our reasoning towards those possible reasons for reduced mortality and it is not meant to be all encompassing. I do agree with you that there could be other reason(s) which further research would unravel with time. Once again, thank you for your comment on the piece.
Cheers.
Thanks for the clarification. It was indeed a misunderstanding. I think that we both agree that food enters the equation and that the equation is quite complicated (and unknown at present time).
Have a nice week-end and thanks for answering my comment!
This is where modelling helps. Which I can do something along this line but I suck at modelling. I would need a comprehensive training in order to pull it off.
We indeed need epidemiologists, statisticians, mathematicians, maybe even physicists, etc. We still have a lot to learn ^^