That's absolutely what you intended, or you wouldn't have reached to such a visceral example. You could have picked influenza to make the same point, but that

That's absolutely what you intended, or you wouldn't have reached to such a visceral example. You could have picked influenza to make the same point, but that wouldn't have been as theatrical. So if you want to play the high-standards-of-discourse card, it goes both ways. And now you're reaching for your own straw man by stating my "we survived" implies your "base continuance of the species", which is obviously an easier framing of my argument to argue against. My rhetoric is exactly what I said: we survived.