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A Boring Dystopia
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Copying from my response where you copied this elsewhere, because it's good to quash misinformation:
This isn't true. It's a debunked theory from the 1800s. Viruses evolve chaotically, sometimes strengthening sometimes weakening. There's no general rule that they get weaker and COVID's reduction in lethality is due to other factors.