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No surprise really. Its not just a variant, its a variant of a man-made virus. We are in uncharted waters and have no idea how this thing will play out.
No, we have every idea how this thing will play out. While the original virus was "man-made" -- in the sense that "gain of function" work, work which originated in this country, by the way, not China -- the original strain of the SARS-COV-2 virus is now, for all practical purposes, extinct.
This is say, man-made or not, once released into the wild, the virus has done what viruses always do, and this so-called "pandemic" has progressed just like all previous coronavirus pandemics have progressed, for which we have records over the past 100+ years.
There are variants. There are always variants. The variants are always less virulent, even if they may be somewhat more infectious. That's how it always works, and that's how it has to work. The "pandemic" itself, the original public health "crisis" which prompted the governmental response we've seen over the past 18 months or so, is over. It's astonishing how many craven, cowardly, deluded people, regardless of ideology or outlook, fail to recognize that, continue to buy into the psy-op.
Everything else is just fear-mongering on the part of those with various agendas.