The awful thing about the whole Covid catastrophe is that it appears to have been entirely man-made, in all its aspects.
It now looks overwhelmingly likely that the mutation was the result of some botched experiment in a Chinese lab.
Some scientists were clearly splicing bits of virus together like the witches in Macbeth – eye of bat and toe of frog – and oops, the frisky little critter jumped out of the test tube and started replicating all over the world.