Perhaps I was not clear. A virus can't "adapt" to not being physically presented to its potential host. It can't "adapt" to "being blocked by a mask" or "the pe

Perhaps I was not clear. A virus can't "adapt" to not being physically presented to its potential host. It can't "adapt" to "being blocked by a mask" or "the person I infected intelligently self-isolating and thus I can't spread any farther". Even if you could hypothetically draw out genetic changes that would permit it, it would require substantial changes to evolve all at once.