@medullah
This is one hundred years later and we have much more advanced equipment now which is why I think C19 was less devastating than 1917. One thing now being noted is a lot of organ damage is seen now with longer term data about C19. This is not over by a long shot.
Closing in on 180,000 deaths now and also closing in on 6 MILLION infected.
Regardless of how much 'better' it is than the Spanish flu of one hundred years ago, it is devastating and will be for the foreseeable future.
The only thing that will help is a real vaccine and the problem there is Trump has so weaponized the whole medical field people won't GET the vax if and when it appears.
So there is that. That means even if available, one thing, it for SURE won't be available to save Trump which is his desperate wish, to get a cure by November.
That is clearly not going to happen.
But the sequence you noted is probably just one of many that viruses have instilled into our permanent DNA record as a species.
I read a sci fi story about a time when they eliminated everything that wasn't strictly human in our DNA and were left with not very well functioning adults.
There is a LOT of devious looking DNA stretches in our genome but that doesn't mean we are going to be doomed. We have been around for hundreds of thousands of years and so far nothing threatening as a species.
even if ten million die, it will not end humans as a species.
Like the Chinese pogroms of the Mao era killed 30 million or more and they are still around, like about a billion of them.