- viruses are very very small, small enough that a single infected organ inside a single outwardly-functional person can make 1,000 copies of them for each person on earth, every day
- this particular virus is doing just fine from an evolutionary standpoint, despite apparently having been unable to be successfully transmitted to any other human on earth for several months -- its DNA is being amplified several trillionfold daily and despite a bunch of human researchers with advanced technology trying to track down its host, we still haven't managed to do it. all of us have genomes shot through with millions of years of damage from retroviruses that got accidentally photocopied into their host organism and it's mostly chill
Asking how a virus "is doing" is already pretty fraught, given their straddling of the living/non-living threshold, but I can't help but see parallels to the nightmarish story of the Cannibal Ant Necropolis.
