This gets even worse! This thing is like a sci-fi pathogen, holy shit.
It could be behaving something like a bacteriophage and entering into a symbiotic relationship with your gut's own
prevotella bacteria.
Do you know what this means? It means when you defecate symbiotic bundles of SARS-CoV-2 and Prevotella, they might persist in water for, oh, an indefinite period of time.
It means that the fecal matter of COVID-19 victims needs to be treated as hazardous waste, put in a holding tank and doused in chlorine to deactivate all the bacteria in it.
It must not be allowed anywhere near sewage plumbing, groundwater, or other bodies of water. Not only could it colonize one's gut bacteria and persist in the body, it could possibly become a persistent environmental contaminant!