re: #162 calochortus

On an unrelated topic: I talked to my-daughter-the-pediatrician today and she was speculating that the more infectious form of Covid that was identified in Britain was actually from southern CA. It would explain the huge spike in the state.

Something certainly happened to drive our outbreak, which started before Thanksgiving, and it wasn’t like the weather had turned bad in L.A. to drive people indoors. Obviously Thanksgiving made it worse, but something else has to have happened.

I don’t think anyone is keeping a close eye on mutated strains in the US.

Wasn’t there discussion the other day that the US has been doing a dreadful job of gene sequencing of the virus here? So we are way behind other nations in knowing what variants are infecting us.