I think they're dying in a certain sense so others might live.. because there is "no bad doesn't bring good in evolution". or at any rate there is a strong general trend towards balance and moderation.
As with covid-19 itself many experts say the main cause was overcrowding. People had moved into foreign territory like in the areas with the bats that caused covid 19. So too in evolution the horses shoulder just reached to the ground to get the grass not too little or too much. Evolution would have caused our numbers and almost all our life to be like this also and above a certain level a lot of people would have gotten ill and this would have reduced the overpopulation down to more healthy levels by going back and forth between the higher and lower levels in evolution.
Some scientists say that cancer itself evolved in evolution as a way to control levels of overcrowding. The bacteria in the pond would increase and they would start to get ill and this would make it so the overcrowding wasn't too extreme. Land is the fundamental foundation of life and history shows that when people lose their land they are no more part of history.
So it's not surprising when people start changing the fundamental levels of life and death with technology of health and unkindness to evolution they should start to show signs of illness. They used to believe that animals like insects and fish with overcrowding don't become ill but more research is shown that this isn't true.
When people turn away from science and the truth it's not all bad for the survivors at any rate. I think of the denial of care for covid as the result of the stress that increasing competition for decreased resources as changing the unit of land per person has done. It makes people so stressed that they want to reduce the overcrowding so much they don't think that dying is so bad anymore. But this wasn't
necessarily bad in evolution just another pattern. The horses shoulder being able to reach the herb was not bad for the horse that survived and a necessary part of the horses adaptation.
One of the things that they say about having climate sadness like about the ecology and feeling bad about it that if we take some practical steps and help the ecology it helps us feel better.
Other research shows that for example about forgiveness if the person have been done something wrong and they share those wrongs and tell them they've forgiven them as on the hidden brains podcast they say that in Africa they had the war and so by the village custom they all sit around the fire and confess the deed and then they say they forgive them. This actually is not helpful they find as much as we might think because there needs to be accountability about the grief and the forgiveness. Some might call forgiveness like this "cheap" forgiveness because it really doesn't change the underlying problem or have accountability as much. Doing a little something about climate grief or grief about the ecology might seem to make people feel better but as they say life is not about comfort and I think the whole general area of overcrowding or moderation about how we treat evolution in history has shaped the whole entire contour of most of history as I say on my site about this. Two golden ages both in the east and Asia and in the west in like 600 BC with Buddha and the Greek philosophers and so too then came the Middle ages for both East and West and then when the plague hit there was the Golden age after the overcrowding was reduced and then the modern age for both. To me this seems like flipping a coin eight times and finding it was heads each time with a 1/256 bet of being noncausal. This is one of the main reasons I believe the covid is a sign we be wise to hold ourselves accountable and reduce the overcrowding as with GE engineering because we would return to a time like the Middle ages or worse if we don't. Or we could return to a Golden age like the ancient classical age or the Golden age of the 1600s, the times with the overcrowding at a healthier level.
