I mean, when you really think about it, viruses are kind of like medical unicorns. Nobody has ever actually seen one. The entire premise behind their existence makes reason stare I mean, how often have you heard since you've been alive "Viruses aren't actually living things, so you can't kill them. That's why, when you 'catch' a cold or flu, you just have to let it 'run its course."

And yet, this "not alive" thing reproduces? It's computer jargon applied to living cells. What the hell is it?

And then you see these videos of former virologists admitting, after they see how studies in other fields are done, that they have no actual proof that viruses are actually there and cause anything. That they're all based on models and assumptions and you go..."Huh.."

What other non-living thing reproduces? And what the hell do they mean by "it just has to run its course" anyway? If that's the case, how could a vaccine help? By training your white blood cells to recognize the virus so they can do what, exactly? Kill it? Don't they always say a vaccine contains a "dead" version of the virus in question? But I've always heard it said it can't be killed because it's not alive so where did they find this "dead" version of it? What does a "dead" virus look like? And what the hell does the immune system "learn" from a "dead" version of something that wasn't alive anyway? And now we find out that all these treatments that kill parasites shorten the lifespan of supposed virus-borne illnesses?

The whole thing stinks based on what I've always been told about it my entire life. Unless their claims on this matter have changed recently.

I mean, when you really think about it, viruses are kind of like medical unicorns. Nobody has ever actually seen one. The entire premise behind their existence makes reason stare I mean, how often have you heard since you've been alive "Viruses aren't actually living things, so you can't kill them. That's why, when you 'catch' a cold or flu, you just have to let it 'run its course."

And yet, this "not alive" thing reproduces? It's computer jargon applied to living cells. What the hell is it?

And then you see these videos of former virologists admitting, after they see how studies in other fields are done, that they have no actual proof that viruses are actually there and cause anything. That they're all based on models and assumptions and you go..."Huh.."

What other non-living thing reproduces? And what the hell do they mean by "it just has to run its course" anyway? If that's the case, how could a vaccine help? By training your white blood cells to recognize the virus so they can do what, exactly? Kill it? But I thought you just said it can't be killed because it's not alive so what the hell does the immune system "learn" from a "dead" version of something that wasn't alive anyway? And now we find out that all these treatments that kill parasites shorten the lifespan of supposed virus-borne illnesses?

The whole thing stinks based on what I've always been told about it my entire life. Unless their claims on this matter have changed recently.