I think it's a little early to be running around screaming 'we're all going to die!', honestly Umair... you'd be the worst person to be next to if Medium ever casts us in a horror movie. Snapping twigs in the middle distance, you'd soil yourself and be up the nearest tree without hesitation.

There are going to be new and emerging strains ad infinitum, as there are with influenza. There's a balance to be struck here, between giving people a reasonable quality of life and protecting the most vulnerable members of society. Announcing the end of the universe once every twelve minutes probably isn't helping a) the markets b) the psychological wellbeing of your readership or c) vaccine uptake.

If we don't know how deadly it is, this mutation could work in our favour. Perhaps it gives you a mild sneeze once every six days and that's it. We don't know - and until we do, you stay up the tree of absolute panic, and I'll crack on with my little Penguin life. I just wish I could be as well paid for my pragmatic wait and see rationalism as you are for your hyperbolic doomspreading.

Still.... there's always room for snarky comments.