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@Humpleupagus @HatkeshiatorTND @Suiseiseki @GoyGirl @zeke @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Robert_Edwardly @technolyze maybe, I don’t know

but then, if it did that, then you’d get the same effects from an infection, I’d think (“pathogens have breached the gate! flip all the genetic switches, switch to Offense Mode and activate the Anti-Herpes Array!”)

this is all in the pile of “shit that’s not real well-understood”, certainly not by me, and I doubt by anybody in its entirety

regardless, my guess would be that once you subtracted all of the “plain immune overreaction” problems, anything from epigenetic changes would probably be small and also probably of little consequence