Mutation

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported (link here) about a new study that purports to prove the coronavirus currently plaguing the United States, Europe, and elsewhere is actually a more contagious mutation of the older strain that first attacked Asia in late 2019 and very early 2020. This also explains why some coronavirus patients are sickening a second time — they were infected with the first

Given how viruses operate, this is hardly a surprise. They can often mutate several times over during a pandemic before declining, due to development of a vaccine and/or humans building up a tolerance through what is known as herd immunity. The deadly influenza pandemic immediately after World War I passed through at least four major mutations and contagion spikes.

So what we're experiencing now, part of the second wave that overlapped the first one, may not be the last. More mutations, deadlier and more contagious, could be in our future for the rest of 2020 into 2021 and even beyond.

All this provides yet another strong reason for why Donald Trump must be fired on November 3rd. His handling of the first wave was atrociously bad.

As a nation, we cannot afford to go through wave after wave of this coronavirus with someone so gloriously incompetent at the helm.