Read this in the Wall Street Journal and it alarmed me. Gain of function mutations.
Here's the link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-...ng-covid-origins-coronavirus-11629037765

And the snip that struck me most:

A virus with a head start in becoming acclimated to humans likely has an easier time evolving to increase transmission. Hence the variants, which seem more effective than anything nature usually delivers on its own. In the months ahead we may have another variant that is even more contagious than Delta, that makes people sicker and—in the worst-case scenario—that eludes vaccines.

end snip

Blank you, CCP. Very mutch. Time to start building bases in Taiwan.

Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.