Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20180806132759/@comment-25396609-20190628172727

Okay for one you gotta slow it down and spend more time thinking these through.

For two, Virii and bacterium are entirely different things. A virus isn't even technically alive, it's just an organic machine; they follow a singular directive and are incapable of reproduction without infecting a host cell; and most will die quite quickly if deprived of a living body due to their lack of ability to self-sustain.

Bacteria are extremely simple micro-organisms that just eat and reproduce over and over again; and will also die when deprived of a food source.

And third: Grimm are not living, organic creatures. Bacterium and virii would not be able to live in or on a grimm for an extended period of time because they simply don't work like that.

The last thing, and the reason why this Grimm is truly useless, is that even if they COULD play host to pathogens, is something called an incubation period. Bacteria and viruses don't just spontaneously cause illness; after the host is infected they need time to bolster their ranks; bacterium need to start gobbling up nutrients and undergoing mitosis while viruses have to inject host cells with their RNA to hijack their reproductive abilities. You're looking at a span of days to weeks after contact where whoever they infected is completely unharmed; so unless they're living in some ridiculously remote and isolated location with zero access to modern medicine, they're gonna be fine.

Worst case scenaro they carry something like HIV or Clostridium botulinum aka botulism. Except they physically cannot host HIV or the botulinum bacteria because oxygen is toxic to the latter and the prior is extremely temperature sensitive and can only survive outside of a livng body for a matter of hours at best.