What doesn't kill ya

"I've always believed that what doesn't kill you, makes you very very weak."

Norm Macdonald

Don't they usually mutate to less deadly forms? Killing their host isn't exactly a successful strategy.

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
- Totally 💯
AIDS didn't get the memo, try emailing them.
- HIV won't kill you. It weakens your immune system so other diseases kill you.
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.
- I see my mistake. I was overly focused on airborne data. Malaria hasn't really changed for the better has it. Thank you.
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.
- Uh... Cancer is not an organism with its own genes. Cancer is you baby, you're just just getting out of control. Viruses sometimes start deadly but they almost always get less deadly over time.

Isn't the bacteriophage, kind of a good guy virus ? Or is there other viruses with this distinctive shape ?

- Bacteriophages present in the environment can cause cheese to not ferment.
  Bacteriophage - Detriments / Wikipedia.org
  Bad guy bacteriophage 😱🧀

"If at first you don't succeed, mutate and try again." - microorganisms

Whatever doesn’t kill you will eventually kill you (when your immune system fails)

I'm missing something here, because I keep seeing posts like this one that have no content. No images, no videos, not a text post, it's just the title "What doesn't kill ya" with no explanation.

I see all other posts elsewhere fine, it seems to just be posts in this one community, or from this one user maybe? I'm not sure.

I'm on Boost if that makes any difference...

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.
It's a play on a saying
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
I'm on Jerboa and there's an image in the post.
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"

Killing the host is typically a pretty bad long term evolutionary strategy for something that requires a host though. Better to keep the host alive so it can proliferate you

Demotivational shoulder patch!