> It has long been speculated that COVID-19 would evolve into more contagious but less virulent variants. That speculation has only come from people who don't

> It has long been speculated that COVID-19 would evolve into more contagious but less virulent variants. That speculation has only come from people who don't know what they're talking about. Is there any other virus where this happened? It didn't happen for smallpox, ebola, measles, flu. You're also ignoring the law of big numbers: if it kills fewer people than delta but infects more people we're probably going to see more deaths. People won't want to take any precautions against it, which means very many more people will get infected.