Correction Lyrics Pollen Under a Microscope by The Who

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The structure of the coronavirus is very similar to that of a few species of pollen under the microscope.
Coronavirus might be a form of pollen.
People might experience fevers with it. However, the symptoms are also very similar.
That's what I originally thought... After doing a size comparison in between the size of viruses and the size of the red blood cells versus the size of pollen, I came to the conclusion that pollen is 100 micrometers in length, and the red blood cell is 8 micrometers in length, the virus is .1 micrometers in length.
Initially I was in a small denial "Perhaps the pollen after being unable to germinate pseudo-evolved into a unicellular organism that divided 1000 times into its smallest possible form, after reaching its smallest form, consumed what it could, increased in size and then divided once more since it cannot reproduce."

The speculation came to a halt after learning that viruses are noncellular and depend solely on the host without being able to reproduce by themselves like unicellular creatures do.

Virus definition:
late Middle English (denoting the venom of a snake): from Latin, literally ‘slimy liquid, poison’. The earlier medical sense, superseded by the current use as a result of improved scientific understanding, was ‘a substance produced in the body as the result of disease, especially one capable of infecting others’.

Viruses do not carry out metabolic processes. Most notably, viruses differ from living organisms in that they cannot generate ATP. Viruses also do not possess the necessary machinery for translation, as mentioned above. They do not possess ribosomes and cannot independently form proteins from molecules of messenger RNA. Because of these limitations, viruses can replicate only within a living host cell. Therefore, viruses are obligate intracellular parasites. According to a stringent definition of life, they are nonliving. Not everyone, though, necessarily agrees with this conclusion. Perhaps viruses represent a different type of organism on the tree of life — the capsid-encoding organisms, or CEOs (Raoult &amp; Forterre 2008).

Any of various submicroscopic agents that infect living organisms, often causing disease, and that consist of a single or double strand of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.

But if you really want to get creeped out check out this article https://www.sciencemag.org/news/1999/08/build-your-own-virus
by Michael Hagmann:

" Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, figured that they could make influenza virus from scratch by inserting DNA versions of the eight viral segments--in negative-strand orientation--into circles of DNA, called plasmids, and shooting them into a cell along with four other elements: the genes--in positive-strand orientation--for the three subunits of the enzyme that copies the viral RNA, plus the gene for a protein that kick starts the enzyme."

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