herman said:South Africa is at the forefront of epidemiology on the continent/world, so them being first to detect and categorize this variant doesn't mean they're the region where it first cropped up (because people seem to cast moral aspersions on regions where the variants are connected in the media).
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1464355798742712335
Also, virus mutation is a f%#cking random process. It doesn't mutate in the "bad" people. Otherwise Trump's whitehouse would have generated the Omega mutation and we'd be dead.