> This increased transmission could be due to chance or founder effects—meaning one variant just happened to get somewhere before the other variants and then go

> This increased transmission could be due to chance or founder effects—meaning one variant just happened to get somewhere before the other variants and then got “lucky”; it was early, rather than more transmissible. It could be due to changed behavior among people—quarantine fatigue, less masking—leading to more rapid spread. However, given the current evidence, along with the specifics of the mutation, it’s getting harder to assume that those other explanations are more likely than the simple proposition that this is truly a more transmissible variant. There is a chance that the hyper growth of the mutated virus is not scalable.