Lab ferrets

The internet is a great collective mind, and processes a great number of ideas. Someone remembered news of criminal trials of Chinese lab workers selling lab animals in the local wet market. It was not in Wuhan, but knowing China, it stands to reason that the large biowarfare lab in the center of the town, two blocks away from the market, was supplying live and dead lab animals.

I posed a question in Greg Cochran's blog: Will the coronavirus evolve to a more or to a less virulent form? Natural selection will favour the lines that infect faster and more effectively, and that means ambulant and coughing carriers. Those lines that send the carriers to the bed or kill them, survive less. So the tendency, I reason, is the corona virus gradually turning into a common seasonal flu. Let's see what is Greg's opinion.