"The banana equivalent to Covid-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most widely eaten fruit is farmed and even how it could taste." []
This is a bad comparison given that in that case the disease would only kill a very small percentage - less than 2% - of the population and mostly affect the older and weaker plants after which the rest of the population would develop immunity against the fungus. If this were the case it would not matter at all and we'd be eating Cavendish bananas for a very long time yet. That is not what this fungus does, it has the potential to devastate crops without any significant chance of the development of natural immunity.
It's a bad comparison but what you say is only true if you look at direct deaths - youth doesn't really protect against long covid, and the increase in cardiovascular risks in fact seems to disproportionately affect younger people.
This is a bad comparison given that in that case the disease would only kill a very small percentage - less than 2% - of the population and mostly affect the older and weaker plants after which the rest of the population would develop immunity against the fungus. If this were the case it would not matter at all and we'd be eating Cavendish bananas for a very long time yet. That is not what this fungus does, it has the potential to devastate crops without any significant chance of the development of natural immunity.