{Debatable - very, very debatable.}
Well, Buddy Lil John, I?ll defend my statement. Virus are a part of beekeeping so I compliant with Beemaster.
Virus has no respiration, they don?t breathe, they don?t eat nor have any means for digestion. They don?t breed. Virus can be crystallized like sugars or a rock. They have zero metabolism, that why they don?t eat.
Summation: virus, they don?t; eat, breed, nor breathe and have the same metabolism of a rock, zero. A virus is just a piece of DNA encapsulated in a protein enevelope containing maybe 2-3 enzymes. The virion. (Singular virus) attaches to a human cell, with a single enzyme bores through (lytic) the cell and inserts the viral DNA. That is, an empty shell is left on the human cell surface.
The viral DNA is deadly, this DNA instructs the human cell to stop every thing and make more virus to the point the human cell burst so full of virus. The released virus lands on another cell and the process repeats until our immunity, a white blood cell, finds and detects the virus on the surface of the human cell in which the white blood destroys the infected cell along with the virus load.
It is all in the DNA of the virus: a special, very demanding code that renders a human cell helpless, actually making slave of our cells and directing the human cell on a susicidal mission. Our cells are tricked by the viral DNA code.
All cells in our body are instructed by their DNA, this DNA is mostly sugar and I marvel at the complexity in which man/woman kind are just beginning to understand. Somehow, DNA has the ability to pass on knowledge, to suckle for example. I am amazed at how a sugar can contain such precise information as to completely form a creature.
Blessings