9 October

When you lock up a virus by locking down people, the virus becomes milder. (Why lockdowns not only stop virus spreading, they make it much less dangerous, very few scientists are noticing that yet.) If you’re not sure why that is, think of humans. Humans that have total freedom of movement destroy everything in their path, whether it’s tourism, or looting in war. Same mechanism. A pandemic is caused by the destruction of ‘home’, of our ability to occupy place in a meaningful way. The same for microbes, it’s microbes without homes.