RaveBay Area ReporterVirology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson establishes itself as a unique and singular archive of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), HIV/AIDS, queer theory, sociopolitical criticism, and a record of the viruses that are present in our guts, on our skin, and in our blood...Osmundson turns hard science into juicy, racy-queer reality accessible to anyone who decides to buy the book, read it, and live it...COVID-19 and its profound parallel to the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, both viral infections with us to this day, shows how both have redefined, in their individual ways, the way we live day to day..Virology is its own technology motivating the mind to think, write, speak, be queer, and live louder...Every inch of life is viral in distinctive yet consistent ways, entities that spread the more we live our lives, a virus being the submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates inside the living cells of an organism.
