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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I understand what you're saying here, but the set of people killed by "every disease ever" includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can't have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes' kill count is part of every disease ever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Edit: when excluding malaria.