It’s weird how a little reading saves so much confusion and wrongness. Like when the variants were first emerging and “experts” were saying that they were more transmissible but not more deadly.

And I knew from reading my virology textbooks that when a virus becomes more transmissible that it almost always also becomes more deadly. I thought, Hmm, that’s really weird, bet that’s not true. And it wasn’t. The variants are both more transmissible and more deadly.

There’s nothing amazing about me. Anyone could do it. But you have to actually do it. Not looking like a dumbass all the time is worth it, though.