Originally Posted by
ericsson16
So this is a UK mutation only, seriously, the UK being set up as the world's Covid Patsy.
Leaving aside the ridiculous metaphor, pretty well every mutation of the virus starts off at a given place and time.
Unless we're suggesting that a newly-mutated virion somehow has the ability to magically communicate with its brothers and sisters hundreds or thousands of miles away to say "hey, guess what's just happened to me!".