Exactly. Fast mutating viruses get more timid over time. Ever so often you'll get an Alexander the Great the Virus, but that happens very rarely and Corona is hardly an Alexander the Great but more like a mediocre general. It didn't start out very dangerous to begin with and it's just been weakening even more over a year and a half. But most of the population hasn't taken a basic biology course anyway.
Actually this is entirely possible.
The virus has had a year and a half to self-select for "less deadly, more contagious". And it has done so.
All of these news stories about "Oh noes! New super-deadly 'variant'!!!!" are either:
Exactly. Fast mutating viruses get more timid over time. Ever so often you'll get an Alexander the Great the Virus, but that happens very rarely and Corona is hardly an Alexander the Great but more like a mediocre general. It didn't start out very dangerous to begin with and it's just been weakening even more over a year and a half. But most of the population hasn't taken a basic biology course anyway.
Agreed on all points.
I think there is a conspiracy to make this "ever so often" more likely to happen soon.