RNA vs DNA

NYC has shut down. schools, museums, restaurants, and stores are all closed. the subways run empty. It feels like the city is besieged in a wartime crisis. Like many others, I feel like a hopeless pawn caught in the crossfire of the current 4 billion year old feud between two long-standing molecular rivals: RNA and DNA. 

Currently a single-stranded RNA virus, Covid-19 is fighting for control of the molecular machinery that runs human cells on a global scale. ravaging cruise ships, church gatherings, and nursing homes, Covid-19 virus is scheming and impotent... not able to reproduce by themselves, they sit opportunistically in protein coat capsids that look like tanks ready to pounce on the cells of the weak and the old. They target DNA-run cells which boast the factories with power to create molecular machines. viruses like covid-19 hijack the DNA cell's factories to copy themselves because they don't have factories of their own. they blast through membrane walls, and send their  genetic code blueprints inside. once invaded, the cells are co-opted and begin assembling virus components capsids and single strands of RNA. when enough virus has been assembled, the cell bursts open, dispersing the viruses en masse. when sneezed or coughed out into someone else's mouth, nose or eyes the virus jumps to its next host. 

Miraculously over the course of billions of years, DNA somehow encoded the elements of human consciousness (think watson and crick 1953) through which it was able to discover its structure. DNA molecule was finally looking at itself.  DNA through their proxy scientists, was able to ascertain its own sequence, and then analyze their nemesis' viral RNA's structure and sequence to try to develop diagnostics and vaccines to eradicate viral RNA. being an agent of DNA myself, i wonder if RNA viruses were once fully functioning cells that became emasculated  by host DNA cells, or were they small cells that parasitized larger DNA cells, or were they bits of RNA that escaped from larger organisms? on a macroscopic policy scale, DNA through their surrogate politicians, are now decreeing social distancing, travel bans, and quarantines to limit RNA spread, and lowering interest rates to lessen the economic hardships on fellow DNA organisms. on a local scale, DNA through their human proxies are hoarding toilet paper, bread and pasta for survival in their battle against RNA.