by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:

A recent study done by researchers in Hong Kong titled Modelling the adjustment of COVID-19 response and exit from dynamic zero-COVID in China stated that explosive growth of infection rates in China could lead to mutations of the virus that will cause another variant. That’s been the official narrative from the beginning too: no one can be free or everyone will get a cold.

The study is co-authored by Kathy Leung, Gabriel M Leung, and Joseph Wu. Gabriel Leung is the former dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. (The report was published Wednesday and is a preprint, meaning it hasn’t yet been certified by peer review.)