Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

"Do you think maybe Peter deliberately let it be known that he expects to be on the way to recovery..."

I have no guess about that. It is hard, if not impossible, to predict how a person would react to stressful situation.

I do remember him joining one of the threads, and starting one with poetry. In neither of those did he mention his health so this time it is different.

I am only trying to point out that we do not know how Mr. Ledermann would react to our curiosity about his health status. Not everyone responds to that in the same way so I would suggest erring on the side of polite distance.

A true Hail Fellow, Well Met, gentleman. Smart too. 
His charity helps stolen children is a great effort. 
He did Zoom interviews for several clubs over the past
year. I am so glad to have watched it.


God-leave Peter with us for a while longer please!

In all fairness, it is none of our business to go snooping about details of his health condition. In fact, with all the good intentions, even posting these details so far might have been a step too far.

I agree. 
What’s the point to post on public forum about someone’s disease, it’s too personal. 

yes indeed, God please leave Peter, his dog, his company and his poetry with us all a while longer...

@glupson you are a good dude

In situations like this it is very hard for people to be deliberate. I do not think that is Peter's style. I also would bet he fully knows about the grape vine going on about this and I suspect he will eventually announce his situation.
As for the etiology of this virus I fully agree with Lewm who is more knowledgeable about this than I am. In nature this virus is likely to mutate one protein at a time and what ever it does is up for grabs. It may well mutate itself out of existence just as well as becoming more virulent. One thing is for certain, once a virus loses it's hosts it is done. It can not replicate without the genetic machinery of it's host. There is always a way to eradicate a virus, you either immunize or knock off the hosts. Smallpox is an example.