Please have a very merry, but socially-distant, Christmas.
A new strain of the virus has emerged. Remember that we saw in "The Natural History Of The Flu", August 2020, that a viral illness tends to mutate in a direction that is more contagious, but less deadly.
On a large scale the virus can "think" by natural selection. It is, of course, in the virus' interest to be more contagious. But it is not in the virus' interest to be deadly because it's host is it's home. It is not in the virus' interest to make it's host so sick as to be confined to bed, because then the host will not spread the virus.
At least we have the internet. What would this have been like before the internet?
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