I don't cause zombies. Learn2virology

[-Ebola-]

Yes, it does. Proteins are the building blocks of life.

I have a pile of LEGO in my closet, but I don't have a LEGO model of the Empire State Building in there.

You should do something about that.

[Conscentia]

Having proteins doesn't make you alive. Biological washing powders aren't alive. Prions aren't alive.
Just because bricks can be used to make a house doesn't mean that everything made of bricks is a type of house.
Just because proteins can be used to make a living system doesn't mean that everything made of proteins is a type of living system.
A living system is defined as one that uses external energy to maintain internal entropy. As viruses don't have a metabolism, they cannot be alive.

No, but anybody that can rearrange the bricks to make something is a type of builder, even if what they build is not a house that you would live in.

Having proteins doesn't make something alive. Having a genetic code does. Prions aren't alive.

I've told you: A living system is defined as one that uses external energy to maintain internal entropy.
A genetic code doesn't make you alive. We can keep DNA in solution. That solution doesn't magically become alive.
Metabolism makes you alive. As viruses don't have a metabolism, they cannot be alive.

[-Ebola-]

No, but anybody that can rearrange the bricks to make something is a type of builder, even if what they build is not a house that you would live in.

Having proteins doesn't make something alive. Having a genetic code does. Prions aren't alive.

I've told you: A living system is defined as one that uses external energy to maintain internal entropy.
A genetic code doesn't make you alive. We can keep DNA in solution. That solution doesn't magically become alive.
Metabolism makes you alive. As viruses don't have a metabolism, they cannot be alive.

If I say that marriage is defined as a holy union between one man and one woman does that mean that same sex couples will suddenly stop being married? I'm tired of your cellular-normative definitions.

[Enterovirus D68]

Hey Ebola how are you?

[The Bosakians]

Zombie outbreaks will never happen. You'll just get infected then die.

[Czech Republic Of Cobra]

purdy close tho

[-Ebola-]

Hey Ebola how are you?

I'm doing well. I hope you aren't too upset with me for hogging all the media attention lately. They haven't given you the air time you deserve.

[Conscentia]

I've told you: A living system is defined as one that uses external energy to maintain internal entropy.
A genetic code doesn't make you alive. We can keep DNA in solution. That solution doesn't magically become alive.
Metabolism makes you alive. As viruses don't have a metabolism, they cannot be alive.

If I say that marriage is defined as a holy union between one man and one woman does that mean that same sex couples will suddenly stop being married? I'm tired of your cellular-normative definitions.

Cellular-normative? My definition doesn't discriminate against live plasmas, or hypothetical intelligent machines.

[Enterovirus D68]

Hey Ebola how are you?

I'm doing well. I hope you aren't too upset with me for hogging all the media attention lately. They haven't given you the air time you deserve.

Well with all the attention shifted onto you no one is trying to avoid me so it's been easier to infect them so it has had its bright sides.

[-Ebola-]

If I say that marriage is defined as a holy union between one man and one woman does that mean that same sex couples will suddenly stop being married? I'm tired of your cellular-normative definitions.

Cellular-normative? My definition doesn't discriminate against live plasmas, or hypothetical intelligent machines.

Yes, cellular-normative. Intelligent machines can be people, but they aren't life. Plasmas are neither.

[-Ebola-]

I'm doing well. I hope you aren't too upset with me for hogging all the media attention lately. They haven't given you the air time you deserve.

Well with all the attention shifted onto you no one is trying to avoid me so it's been easier to infect them so it has had its bright sides.

That's good. I'm glad it hasn't been too frustrating for you.

[Conscentia]

Cellular-normative? My definition doesn't discriminate against live plasmas, or hypothetical intelligent machines.

Yes, cellular-normative. Intelligent machines can be people, but they aren't life. Plasmas are neither.

Plasmas and machines aren't cellular.
You're discriminating against non-protein-based life.

[-Ebola-]

Yes, cellular-normative. Intelligent machines can be people, but they aren't life. Plasmas are neither.

Plasmas and machines aren't cellular.

Aw, crap! Sometimes I don't think before I post. That's what happens when you don't have a brain.

[RPGers]

hello Ebola,

Are you okay? I mean with all the silly people saying that you cause zombies?

(Now if you will excuse me I want to create a virus based nation )

[Conscentia]

:clap: hello Ebola,
Are you okay? I mean with all the silly people saying that you cause zombies?
(Now if you will excuse me I want to create a virus based nation )

(The other infectious agents feel left out )

[Enterovirus D68]

:clap: hello Ebola,
Are you okay? I mean with all the silly people saying that you cause zombies?
(Now if you will excuse me I want to create a virus based nation )

(The other infectious agents feel left out )

No one ever pays attention to little old Enterovirus D68.

[Conscentia]

(The other infectious agents feel left out )

No one ever pays attention to little old Enterovirus D68.

You're still a virus.
No one ever wants to be an archaean. Or a prion. Or a protist. Or a transmissible cancer.

[Shaggai]

I dislike how everyone just assumes viruses are to blame for the zombies.
Clearly a fungus is to blame. We've seen them do similar things before.

It's wasps. It's always wasps. Genetically engineered giant mind-controlling wasps that lay their eggs in humans.

[Margno]

I heard zombification was a curse.

[CHUCK NORRlS]

Viruses don't have girlfriends.

You don't have a girlfriend? I like to challenge that.

[-Ebola-]

No one ever pays attention to little old Enterovirus D68.

You're still a virus.
No one ever wants to be an archaean. Or a prion. Or a protist. Or a transmissible cancer.

There's a reason going viral is called going viral, you know. Viruses are just cooler than all those other pathogens.

[Mandicoria]

I do believe Ebola could be our greatest ally in the fight against the zombies. All we need to do is infect zombies with it.
#InfecttheInfected

[-Ebola-]

Viruses don't have girlfriends.

You don't have a girlfriend? I like to challenge that.

That's not my girlfriend. That's just some copy-cat virus doing a bad impersonation of me.

[Ulvena]

You're still a virus.
No one ever wants to be an archaean. Or a prion. Or a protist. Or a transmissible cancer.

There's a reason going viral is called going viral, you know. Viruses are just cooler than all those other pathogens.

Are you implying that fungi that control the cognitive functions of ants is less cool than you? You and your brother Marburg Virus can just go back to your fruit bats.

[Anglo-California]

I dislike how everyone just assumes viruses are to blame for the zombies.
Clearly a fungus is to blame. We've seen them do similar things before.

Kind of like the Flood from Halo.