Homo sapiens is getting stupider, because people, and their governments, are giving up on caution. The UK is preparing for the expected winter assault of the Covid pandemic Delta variant by removing all restrictions and exposing their populations to it now. They will save their people by creating resistance of the English by making them sick now. Vaccinations would be much kinder, but common people would rather not risk getting a probably mild flu-like disease for a few days. What that means is that instead of a vaccination they are choosing to get the INEVITABLE real Covid disease, and the risk of serious disease with long-term problems, like dying. Like the common 1919 cold virus the Covid disease will never go totally extinct, because it is already locked in frozen corpses buried in the Arctic. More fragile things than virus’ come back to life after being frozen for 24,000 years.

People have the choice to be stupid and are relishing the opportunity.