[ianch99]

From what I understand, the COVID virus is stopping being sequenced in the various countries it is found. This removes the ability to detect new variants if I understand this correctly. Why is this important? So far the virus has mutated to a more benign, relative to first variant, form and it is the hope that this will continue to do so. However this trajectory is not guaranteed so when we are about to get ~10% of the world's population infected when these people have possibly less than effective vaccine cover, we are rolling the dice big style. More infections == high chance of vaccine evading mutations.

I feel the Covid weariness could come back to bite us ..