interesting possibility I have to yet contemplate ... but forests and trees are our exterior lungs so when they are weakened or destroyed, our inner lungs are also affected ... Corina virus affects the lungs in many people. The inside seems to mirror the outside so there might be a connection through this principle ...
We are destroying the natural barriers and depleting our resources. Those that have the power to change our routes need to reroute but are they bright and brilliant? I would get them to live a week inside their destruction and see how they come out of it.
Your proposition seems to be related to systems science (pioneered by Von Bertalanffy in 1968. This evolved into chaos theory and complexity theory Hardy, 2020). I do not know too much about these theories, but we do depend on the environment. Trees, of course, play a huge role in the health of the environment and of course us - and we are ignoring this. Although we are taking notice of the Corona Virus because of the high death rate, we are not looking at it as a result of how we are destroying the environment. Thank you for bringing up this link through your question.
Clearing forest will displace the populations of some wild animals (carrier of various kind of viruses) that are going to occupy green areas and parks of larger cities. This may increase the probability of transmitting these viruses to human