Kraken is the latest variant of COVID-19, but expect more mutations

[Marcuse]

There may be a general misconception that viruses are hunters homing in on healthy cells, but visualize instead dandelion seeds scattering randomly in the wind.

“And if there’s a couple of the dandelion seeds that are resistant to whatever weed killer you’re applying, it’ll kill everything except those and those will replicate and now they’re all resistant.

“It isn’t that (the surviving seeds) got smart, it’s that a few of them were resistant, your weed killer killed everything else and that’s all.”

Viruses that escape being neutralized by the immune system do so by having a tiny mutation, making them different from all the other viruses and they go on to reproduce viruses that also have that mutation.
https://vancouversun.com/news/kraken-is-the-latest-variant-of-covid-19-but-expect-more-mutations

[Cheezoholic]

1. Well played n/t

[Walleye]

2. That's a good illustration for those of us with limited understanding of this

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Viruses mutate

It's what they do to stay alive.