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I kind of got sucked into the periphery of studying viruses as two of my children became microbiologists doing genetic engineering and pharmacology
work with viruses.

Both worked in spacesuits, as much to protect contamination of the target as themselves.

The subject fascinates me so much that about two months ago as I was getting lots of immunizations for remote foreign travel, I began reading about the RNA viruses vs DNA viruses and all the different shapes and sizes using the Baltimore classifications.

My kids think I’m nuts, but when I feel a virus in a person, it is a separate swarm of consciousness that flows similar to a swarm of gnats in and around the person. It puzzles the heck out of me.

I have no idea where I’m going with it, if anywhere, but my level of scientific curiosity is through the roof. I know the solution is in the DNA transcription/replication process in an epigenetic way similar to methylation.

It beats crossword puzzles!