Comment Re:Eugenics (Score 1) 68
damn, I forgot the other ones.
There is a mutation which increases the likelihood of surviving Bubonic Plague. Not a big deal nowadays but up until 330 years ago it made a really big difference.
When Covid first started and the Chinese were not being so defensive about it, their data indicated that people with certain blood groups were far more likely to die than people with other blood types. As it happens, my blood group was "low risk" and - even though I was frequently exposed to people who had it - it took almost three years before I caught it myself, and then it was over in around a week. Of course the virus itself had mutated far away from the original version - it turns out that killing (or incapacitating) the host is not a good strategy for a virus and newer variations were less dangerous.