Responsibility for COVID's success is one of those things for which I think it's appropriate to blame a good part of it on its victims. This virus struck in the middle of a global pandemic of stupidity that's been defended and encouraged to rage unchecked thru our species for a couple of decades now, at least.
If COVID want's to survive like any other self-respecting virus maybe it best evolve a little sympathy for its hosts lest it's success affixes to tightly to its spiky little head. Speaking of karma maybe we should adopt the same ethic towards our planet.