Yes, I think so: the maximum sentence is there so that the worst cases can be appropriately punished. What would the worst case for perjury be? Probably something like knowingly lying in a murder tri… (View Post)

Damn straight. & if your concern is that leftist campaigners are using BLM as an entryist strategy then your best way to prevent that strategy being successful is to solve the problems that BLM a… (View Post)

Yes, they are weird things! They’re evolution in it’s rawest form, perfectly capable both of wiping out host & virus simultaneously or, alternatively, co-existing for millennia. (View Post)

Every second, third, etc time you catch the flu you’ve been infected by a mutated form of a disease you’ve had before. The reason we need a new flu vaccine annually is precisely because the thing mut… (View Post)

There’s no particular bias towards non-lethality in the mutations a virus undergoes. There is (obviously) a bias towards greater infectiousness in the virus mutations you’re likely to be exposed to &… (View Post)