Listened to the Queen's Christmas message; it was
really very moving. She did mention something that struck me
very much this year, in thanking the young. Here in Quebec,
- with high schools closed - young boys were working away in
a local supermarket, packing groceries and recycling sanitized
baskets at the entrance. And showing competence and good humour
doing so. It was an act of bravery, and it made me think to be
careful about buying just what my household really needed.
And I do think of them in reading about how the virus is mutating to
become more infectious, with changes occuring at multiple points on
the protein envelope. I do not know that this variant is more dangerous
for young people, as they have more streamlined immune systems, but
it is in the logic of the situation that there could, over time, emerge a
variant targeted to them. Because the versions of the virus that
thrive are also those that do not kill their hosts but merely infect them.
Young people is where this pandemic is heading, unless we stop it!!👩🔬
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