Anyone else been wondering why after nearly 12 months of no significant mutations, we see four similar mutations almost simultaneously?
Is this just chance? Was it programmed into the virus by the Chinese? Clear yad hashem to show us we're not in charge just as we get close to a vaccine?
Technically speaking if an evolution takes x amount of time+spread, it follows that around the same time many different ones will emerge.
I.e. if pregnancy takes 9 months, it follows that 9 months after a seeding event many different babies will appear around the same time.
Additionally, the UK was doing orders of magnitude more sequencing than other countries so they were more likely to identify it, and then other countries started checking more and found others.
We are also more worried about benign mutations now (Making them discussed more), only UK & SA have been proven to really be worse, although to me P.1 from Brazil is the scariest.