“I’m a hybrid. I’m a virus that causes very, very little harm, doesn’t give many people symptoms.” Highly capable of transmission, mild in most infected persons, invisible in many, therefore lulling the host population and its more doltish, obdurate leaders toward complacency. “At the same time that I can be absolutely deadly to a large number of people, who happen to be vulnerable.” “Yeah,” I said admiringly. “And that’s the nefarious, insidious nature of this virus.”
