Mutations should not be a surprise. Flus mutate every season. That's why we need new vaccines.
Maybe only one in million mutations is worse than the parent. But if that one gets out and replicates, we have a new disease to deal.
Umair talks about politicians pandering to the far right. They are scared of this demographic. Canada just went through an expensive policing exercise to pull apart three massive protest-occupation sites. Like a mutating virus, this demographic is not going away.
Our current systems of government allowed this social virus to reach a critical point. It is time for a new way:
https://medium.com/discourse/tiered-democratic-governance-3f36a8f45660