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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Point is that mutations are random, and aren't so much driven by environmental pressures as they are always present and when an environmental pressure makes a mutation beneficial, the mutated cells have a better chance to reproduce and yada yada.
This is my understanding yeah, the mutations are random, but only the ones beneficial to the virus become common. Nothing says that the next variants will be less deadly, just that being less deadly would be a good idea for the virus. Just looking at the successful variants is survivor bias, and there's nothing's stopping an idiot mass death variant that's extinct in a year or two coming up.
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