[Capt Spaulding]

A major problem we're confronting is natural selection. We're running a huge biology experiment in which we're all lab rats. Every new infection offers an opportunity for the virus to mutate. Some mutations are cul de sacs - evolutionary dead ends for the virus. Others allow the virus to become more virulent or more deadly or more resistant to the vaccine. Our behavior plays a major role in this process. Maskholes, deniers, and antivaxers are playing a game that benefits the virus.

We're several weeks past the beginning of spring break. Loads of the impatient and dimwitted descended on beaches and elsewhere and created loads of opportunities for virus infection and mutation. And guess what? Infection numbers are rising again. The increase was completely predictable. We know what it takes to beat this thing or at least fight it to a draw. But too may of us are emotionally or intellectually incapable of doing what is best for us personally or for our fellows and society as a whole.