Just getting over the flu. Told my boss it was Ebola so I could get a few days off work, but it’s really just the flu*. I’m considering going back to work and inserting the occasional “tweet” in my speech while telling people it was bird flu. I’m impossible to work with. Anyway. In my feverish delerium I got to thinking about dope and, now that I can crawl to the computer I must ask:
Hot bath feel good when dealing with fever & ague:
…a) is that a bad idea?
…b) does it help in combatting the little viral bastards causing me so much grief?
What would a pint of virus look like if it were in a mason jar on the counter in my kitchen? Color, texture, smell, etc.
As they are mostly protein–is there any nutritional value to viruseseses? Am I getting anything out of this ordeal?
How would viruseseses react if you had the above-referenced pint of pure, uncontaminated bug, and applied it to a hot iron frying skillet?
For the love of all that’s holy, please don’t come in here asking, "Are you sure it was Flu and … " My guts are fine, my head has imploded, I’ve got those “beaten all over with a stale bran muffin” blues and I’ve burned off 4 pounds of stubborn fat while supporting a most wonderful fever and muscle quakes.
They’re using your raw material to reproduce themselves, including hijacking your low-level transcriperase tools to do the replicating for them. Your protein is becoming new thems.
If it makes you feel any better, remember that the “you” that the virus is stealing wasn’t really yours to begin with. It was that chicken that you ate and turned into yourself.
I’ll take number two (because I have a fatigue induced imagination)
Viruses are an unpleasant green in color, small spherical things with branches at the ends of which are little knobbies. Some of these knobbies have mandibles; it is with these that the viri feed on your healthy cells
Viri have Foglio Eyes and nasty dispositions.
Probably varies a bit with the virus, but essentially an off-white to brown crystalline solid. You would probably mistake it for raw sugar.
There is nutritional value in viruses provided you could harvest them form another host. When you are the host you lose on the deal big time.
I imagine it would be much the same as if you applied soy or whey protein supplement to a skillet. If you didn’t add any oil or water it would turn black and start to smoke eventually. If you added oil or water you would produce a kind of gravy.
Please, there is no such word as viri. One virus, two viruses.
I haven’t a clue. But it does remind me of a long ago chemistry lesson in school, the teacher was explaining basic atomic structure to us and apologised for being unable to show us a ‘bottle of electrons’. Fun times.
I’m aware of all the arguments that there is no such word, but there should be, on the grounds that the standard Englich plural “viruses” is ugly and cumbersome.
