"So let's be clear: the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely?" That's where you set up the silly straw man y

"So let's be clear: the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely?" That's where you set up the silly straw man you've been battling. > be tremendously surprising if those pathogens became more virulent [citation needed]