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One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such
by twoslide 6y ago
One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such a variant becomes more likely when there are many infections (more of the virus to mutate), and the strategy has consistently been to run things "hot" and tolerate high case counts.
- JohnCohorn 6y agoIf other countries(like the US!) are running it hot it could just as easily develop there and still have spread to the UK.
- twoslide 6y agoGood point, we’re a small share of global cases. I’ll temper my wrath a bit.
- Veen 6y ago> Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck That's pretty much the definition of a mutation.
- twoslide 6y agoYes, but you have a lot more chances to have the bad luck if the virus is spread widely
- f6v 6y ago> Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck It’d be hilarious if UK blamed China for engineering the virus in the lab at the same time. Or they do?