{"id":221687,"date":"2020-04-06T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=221687"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:47:25","slug":"what-do-viruses-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/what-do-viruses-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Viruses Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do viruses want? What is their end-game?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not the death of humanity. Their goal is to spread indefinitely. In theory, a virus doesn’t want to kill the host, unless there is some sort of biological benefit to killing the host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Corona Virus doesn’t need to kill people in order to spread. Perhaps people dying from COVID-19 is just a side-consequence of their weak immune system. My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 doesn’t wanna kill people, it just wants to spread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Viruses don’t want to (intentionally) kill their hosts.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Let us consider– what do viruses want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A virus is an organism. It wants to spread and propagate itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going “viral”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Do you remember when people used to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s going viral!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now we think — this is probably in bad taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when we think about the notion of going ‘viral’, we mean to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to spread something on the internet widely, and get a lot of people to view\/consume\/watch\/experience something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So perhaps the same notion is for viruses. They want to spread as widely as they can, to propagate their own genes and species as far as they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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