Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Thanks. Now I'm a Creationist.

I find trying to comprehend what is happening at the cellular level mindbogglingly impenetrable.

Just thinking about the random mutations that gave rise to such a complex and precisely malicious piece of RNA is enough to tip me into existential crisis. As I understand it, the virus doesn't have any objective at all (it has no consciousness), but it's characteristics have been selected for by its evolutionary environment, and now it is wildly successful? Successful enough to put a highly evolved species and civilization into crisis. It is fucking bonkers.

And on the physical level the idea that this weird bit of random stuff (most likely originating from bats) invades and corrupts cells, makes my skin crawl.

So yeah #fuckcovid