Question One: How do you view the community?

Is it malevolent or simply a force? Are its viruses and who they affect randomized, or does it have a goal? When it chooses to allow some people's fates to be altered and some others are stuck as they are, why is that? Or do you just not think about it too much?

Question Two: Is being missed by a romantic virus for once worth breaking out one of my better teas for?

I'd just like to formally apologize to anyone I spoke to during that last virus.

...especially anyone I asked to marry me. [oh god.]

And just for the record, I am not that desperate to get married.