@cowanon @agaperealm @jeffcliff I am not mind controlled by pharma. Viruses exist even if they're a heuristic rather than fact. I have yet to be convinced otherwise, but I'm open to it. The idea of latent disease manifesting around technological or environmental changes a la Dead Space (Russian flu and influenza both tied to tech advancements) is interesting to me. I'm not sure both aren't correct though, as manifestation of endogenous retropathogens via external stimuli could still produce a transferable package with the properties of what we call "virus".