I love it when they anthropomorphize things like viruses or evolution. I get what he is saying, it just cracks me up to make it sound like there is some virus conference where they decide they need to kill less people.
"Look at the common cold people, it has a hold on this world. We need to be the new common cold! We need to become less deadly! Yes, I know we like killing people, but unless we can turn the dead bodies into vectors for infection...yes, that is a tall order...then our best bet is to emulate our cousins and tone it down, get more people to pass us along. We need to stop the kill!"
*crowd roars*
*someone throws a molotov ****tail...the revolution is in full swing*
LOL. Nice.