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Viruses continue to have an inferred existence with no Kochian isolated purity to back it up. If you are up to date on virology you know that they pretty much admit that they are inseparable from vesicles and have an evolutionary connected relationship via vesicle function hijacking(trojan hypothesis) or some other type of functional connection.

My view is that viruses were germ theory dogma based constructions from the beginning and that a stress activation hypothesis via toxicity of different types makes more sense(it made sense for TMV via chemically poisoned plants and it makes sense for the rest). Contagion I am not quarreling with though I argue it happens via stress communicating dynamics and not propagating pathogens(which as Jamie Cunliffe says is a silly term considering that pathology by definition happens after the fact).