Ecosia.org is what it redirects to, but yeah I've been using them for a couple of years now and it is nice to see some positive work being done!
12newguy
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Your list of drawbacks reminded me of a book series I read a few years ago called Super Powereds by Drew Hayes. The main premise is that some people have superpowers, but not everyone can control their powers. The people who don't have control are called Powereds, while the ones who can are called Supers. There are also some powers you mentioned and he has the characters use them in really intriguing ways (like one character that can heal people, but then later can inflict the same wounds on someone else). It was/is one of my favorite book series, and I would like to go back and read them again someday, which is not something I would say about many books. Here is a link to the authors website if you are interested: https://www.drewhayesnovels.com/superpowereds
I'm not the first to say this, but essentially your body (specifically your immune system) doesn't know the difference (as far as how dangerous a sickness is) between a cold and ebola. So it always reacts very strongly to any "invader" that isn't part of your body normally. This is super simplified and I'm not an expert by any means, but here is a playlist of videos by a channel called Kurzgesagt with much more information: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFs4vir_WsTyS2cy4vj4obl5igqCOV749
Or if you don't want to click on the link (or want to use a different device) you can search for Kurzgesagt and then look at their playlists; there is one with immune-related videos.
I remember an episode of Mythbusters where they tested this, and I found a neat website that claims to have the result of that test. ( https://mythbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Daddy_Long_Legs_Myth ). The result was that they could bite humans and pierce the skin, but the bite was not especially problematic.
Searching for Mythbusters Daddy Long legs also brought up some YouTube suggestions from the episode, which was called Buried in Concrete. I haven't watched any yet but maybe the scene is somewhere.