Its a highly contestable issue. There is NOTHING in the historical and ongoing debates to justify a non professional here saying without qualification "Viruses aren't real" or even perhaps "there's no such thing as a living virus" (a bizarre assertion that now centers on what "living" means, since viruses categorically maintain a "life cycle" based on its manipulative or invasive strategies). Really the only basis for that sort of certainty statements is one side advertising and presenting more convincingly than the other. But a convincing presentation on the Internet is fraught with problems when it comes to discerning the truth of a matter.

Its a highly contestable issue. There is NOTHING in the historical and ongoing debates to justify a non professional here saying without qualification "there's no such thing as a living virus". Really the only basis for that sort of certainty statements is one side advertising and presenting more convincingly than the other. But a convincing presentation on the Internet is fraught with problems when it comes to discerning the truth of a matter.