World Juniors cancelled
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
No, there is no such chance. In the first place, a virus does not magically acquire DNA out of nowhere that causes it to infect people with a radically different disease. In the second place, there is a well-known genetic tradeoff between lethality and transmissibility in viruses. The literature on the subject is quite clear.
I am not taking any chance at all, because the chance of what benvoyonsdonc is describing is zero.
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Uh, mutation is a random copying error. No magic required, it’s just a matter of odds. When you have billions of viral particles being generated in billions of hosts, the math tends to favor significant and sometimes seriously deadly mutations. I wouldn’t hang my hat on that rhetoric.
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