What's important is not blanketly stating that a mutated virus weakens it, and it therefore cannot score a touchdown anymore than a broken football play with a strong quarterback controlling the ball cannot. The opposite is true also.
This virus has 22 genes, protein cells, spike cells and other things. A mutation may be a change in just one of those things, and it may have mutated one of those things to 'get around' something trying to hinder it, such as a vaccine.
In time, with strong and continuous defensive measures, i.e., enough deaths to stop it cold in some instances, enough personal mitigation to hinder it, constant study and vaccination, it will slow down. It will never go away. It will continue to mutate and take lives with it each year as does the flu.
Telling people not to be scared of it at this point in time is more political then realistic and should be in JP, imo. Personally, I don't pay attention to political hype one way or another. I have nothing to gain either way.
Just a quote from a not-so-recent scientific study (Oct 22, 2020):
"Another important finding is that mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome can shift the virus towards either greater or lesser virulence in the future, which justifies keeping a watch over the rate, location, and effect of mutations."
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20201022/SARS-CoV-2-mutations-dictate-severity-of-COVID-19-disease.aspx
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