The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around, how many people it has killed, and its historical mutation pandemics. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly, mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the 1918 Spanish Flu, which affected a third of the human population, and there have been many, many other influenza pandemics in human history. But all of them happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is already more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is, or at least was, the deadliest disease in human history), and which is much more transmissible than the flu. And is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into two seriously dangerous strains in UK and South Africa, which transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and has also mutated some of its surface proteins to a type that evades the human immune system more easily. And considering that regular INFLUENZA constantly mutates and deadlier strains emerge, we can and should assume that this will happen with Coronavirus too, since it's now an endemic illness that won't go away. With the UK/South Africa strains as a perfect stepping stone towards such a disastrous mutation. We're now only one unlucky mutated strain away from... the proverbial shit hitting the fan.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is already more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is, or at least was, the deadliest disease in human history), and which is much more transmissible than the flu. And is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into two seriously dangerous strains in UK and South Africa, which transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and has also mutated some of its surface proteins to a type that evades the human immune system more easily. And considering that regular INFLUENZA constantly mutates and deadlier strains emerge, we can and should assume that this will happen with Coronavirus too, since it's now an endemic illness that won't go away. With the UK/South Africa strains as a perfect stepping stone towards such a disastrous mutation. We're now only one unlucky mutated strain away from... the proverbial shit hitting the fan.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is already more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is, or at least was, the deadliest disease in human history), and which is much more transmissible than the flu. And is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into two seriously dangerous strains in UK and South Africa, which transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and has also mutated some of its surface proteins to a type that evades the human immune system more easily. And considering that regular INFLUENZA constantly mutates and deadlier strains emerge, we can and should assume that this will happen with Coronavirus too. With the UK/South Africa strains as a stepping stone towards such a disaster. We're now only one unlucky mutated strain away from... the proverbial shit hitting the fan.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is, or at least was, the deadliest disease in human history), and which is much more transmissible than the flu. And is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into two seriously dangerous strains in UK and South Africa, which transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and has also mutated some of its surface proteins to a type that evades the human immune system more easily. We're now only one unlucky mutated strain away from... the proverbial shit hitting the fan.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is, or at least was, the deadliest disease in human history), and which is much more transmissible than the flu. And is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into two strains in UK and South Africa, which transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and has also mutated to evade the immune system more easily. We're only one unlucky mutated strain away from... the proverbial shit hitting the fan.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is of course partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we all have a slight seasonal flu immunity), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is the deadliest disease in human history), and much more transmissible than the flu. And which is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into strains that transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and which has mutated to evade the immune system more easily.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns and most people being ultra hysterical and super careful to not become sick. The Covid numbers would be several orders of magnitude higher if people were living their lives as normal. The high lethality is partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we have seasonal flu), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is the deadliest disease in human history), and much more transmissible than the flu. And which is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into strains that transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and which has mutated to evade the immune system more easily.

Yes, it's serious.

The common cold isn't a single virus. It's hundreds of different viruses which are classed as the "common cold" due to their symptoms and LACK of lethality. To be classified as a common cold virus, it needs to be a virus that mainly affects the upper respiratory system and only causing mild respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a cough.

The most important thing you need to understand, is that the common cold viruses all thrive in cold environments, which is why they replicate and infect the upper respiratory system, where cold air circulates. They can not survive deep into the body to cause any severe damage.

The common cold is mostly caused by weak Rhinoviruses, which literally only bind to the surface cells of the nose and sinuses. The only damage the common cold does is to cause inflammation in the upper throat and a runny or blocked nose.

You will NEVER see a lethal strain of common cold.

Next up is influenza, which is the deadliest disease in history, due to how long it's been around and how many people it has killed. It is a much more severe infection which affects the entire body. There are four types of influenza, A, B, C and D, although only the A and B variants circulate widely. There are so many flu mutations that they name them by type, origin, strain, year and subtype. However, all of them are genetically related to each other.

With regards to influenza mutations, the deadly strains self-limit because of the fact that influenza has an incubation period of 1-4 days (typically within 48 hours). If it is sufficiently viral to be very deadly, it will quickly incapacitate the host and therefore limit further spread.

That being said, very deadly mutated versions of influenza HAVE existed, such as the Spanish Flu. But it happened during a time before worldwide travel. Before fifty planes per hour arrive in every freaking major airport in every city in the world. Spanish Flu today would have spread far more widely and caused a LOT more damage.

Which finally brings us to Coronavirus. It is the worst virus type out of all three discussed here. Its incubation period is typically 5-6 days but can be as long as 14 days, which means that you can walk around with it for up to two weeks before you know that you're infected. And researchers estimate that your viral load is sufficient to spread to others 2-3 days before your symptoms start, and that it's the most contagious in the 1-2 days before you notice any symptoms. This long incubation period and the ability to spread before you've noticed anything (which is how Trump got it, by mingling with people who didn't know they were sick), is the reason that it spreads so easily.

With such a transmissible virus, with a long incubation time, and our modern, worldwide travel, you have a virus that easily reaches large portions of the population and had covered the entire world in a very short amount of time.

Then comes the lethality. The numbers are 2-3x higher than flu, and that's DESPITE lockdowns. The high lethality is partially due to humans lacking immunity against "seasonal Covid" (the way we have seasonal flu), and partially due to not having any vaccines (thus no inoculated population that could limit the spread), and part of it is also shoddy reporting which lumps too many deaths into the covid camp. But even adjusting for all of that, we see a virus that is more deadly than the flu.

So we have a virus that is more deadly than the flu (which, remember, is the deadliest disease in human history), and much more transmissible than the flu. And which is mutating into new strains 1-2 times per month. And has now mutated into strains that transmit even more easily (the vast majority of new UK cases are from the new, mutated strain rather than the widely circulated older strain), and which has mutated to evade the immune system more easily.

Yes, it's serious.