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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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Agreeing with Sephiroth here (blimey!) That is good. Always important to note that evolution is a random process. Many mutations will be lethal so we never see them, others are less effective than what is present already and will dwindle in the population and others will be more successful and will dominate.
The virus doesn’t choose what to mutate to do whatever (that article does fall in to that trap a little) Mutations occur spontaneously and then are tested in ‘the wild’. In my old field of HIV, the mutation rate is very high and so is the reproduction rate (new virus made per day) even with asymptomatic patients. This meant that drug resistance pops up very quickly. Luckily, SARS-COV2 has a relatively low mutation rate.
In other news, have we seen the anti-vaccine lads destroying a COVID testing centre in Milton Keynes -
https://twitter.com/culladgh/status/1476212244723732486
We demand to be free!!!
Am I allowed to get a COVID test?
No!!!