I sort of sped read your cliff notes and didn't pick up on the not a virus thing either ( though i did get the "I will call it a bug bit". I wanted to comment but held my pennies and read on.. Aside from this I "feel" as if there is some long buried claim that flu and virus are distinctly different aminals.....personally I have always (in the dark ages) though that a cold was a virus and the flu a "Stomach bug"....