yes, killing the host is considered a jerk move in the microbial community, but some still take the suicidal path, it's a bacterial insanity issue

AIDS didn't get the memo, try emailing them.

Airborne respiratory viruses in humans tend to decrease in lethality. This doesn't really transfer anywhere else. The decrease in severity in is due to selection pressure from human quarantine behavior.

Killing the host is normal in single celled organisms. The most common method viruses leave the cell I by causing it to burst open.

Killing the host is also common in the plant world.

Cancer is a prime example of op message

Also viruses started somewhere. A lot had to mutate to get them to be so deadly to begin with for deadly ones.

As far as I know it's kind of a good guy virus but I think it's very specialised on what kind of bacteria it kills so maybe there is a variant that kills all the good bacteria in us. And that can't be too good, I imagine.

The image just loaded very slowly for me (i.e. after about 10 seconds). In some posts it never loads at all, but there is a thumbnail in the main screen. This is on sync.

I'm on Jerboa and there's an image in the post.

It's a play on a saying

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Maybe try a different instance? Whether you see an image mostly depends on whether your instance has cached the picture

This community is worse than most at providing alt text

The image is a needlework project in an circular frame. Representations of bacteria and viruses decorate the center of the piece with text above reading "whatever doesn't kill you" and text below "mutates and tries again"