Re: Because ...
But it's not covid.
So back in November 2002, a traveler got sick, and ended up in a Vietnamese hospital. Dr Carlo Urbani noticed this was unusual, rang alarm bells, and sadly died. So that was the SARS outbreak, and at least 782 people died.
So that was SARS-CoV. 15 years later, that was probably traced back to a remote bat cave by researchers in Wuhan. Couple of years later, SARS-CoV-2, aka covid hits the market & explodes. Ground zero being Wuhan, but that's probably just a coincidence. Suggestions that gain of function research had anything to do with this will be vigorously denied by Dr Fauci and his supporters. Even though there's a growing stack of evidence.
But such is politics. Whatever happened, we've ended up with a mutated strain since 2002. And it's still mutating. And in all likelihood, it'll keep mutating. And as you say, it may mutate into something more lethal. It's just what viruses do. Kill the host too quickly, and you limit your opportunities to spread. Mutate to sneak past the immune system, and you spread faster. Hijack an antibody to gain entry into a cell, and you can hijack the immune system to spread. That's ADE, or Antibody Dependent Enhancement.
But that's one of the risks of mass vaccination, especially if you're administering the wrong vaccine. That just makes ADE far more likely. Sure, you'll have antibodies, it's just that a virus can use those against you. And oddly enough, following SARS and other coronavirus outbreaks, ADE was considered high risk for vaccines.
But no matter, mix & match jabs and boosters, I'm sure it'll be fine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
