I want a tri Lambda variant and an Omega Mu variant.
Then I can die happy...
Sorry, next up is the Mekong Delta variant.
I don’t get the sneering. Of course the virus will mutate. It’s not a process of life (since the virus is not alive). It’s a process of statistics.
People take a breath of the original artificially created virus particles and it floats around inside the lungs until it bumps into a lung cell, whose receptors ensnare it. Normal breathing rubs it against the cell membrane and it is pushed inside, where its RNA strand replaces the cell’s. The cell function changes to virus production, not oxygen transfer.
Since the virus particle that ensnares best gets replicated more, you soon have a new strain. Might as well label it something. Greek letters are traditional.
It doesn’t have to do anything different to have faster transmission also equal more effective killing. Speed is the issue. Not function. Get enough lung cells infected early and arrival of vax primed antibodies, or natural antibodies from prior infection, won’t matter. They take days to get produced and deployed. It can be far too late if the strain you have is faster than Delta.
It soon will be.
At this rate, you may soon get your wish. Can we start shopping which variant we want? Such BS! 99+% survivability. Higher than CONvid vax efficacy numbers.