Is that next to the chescle? Or by the linteth?

Which one????

Deliberately though. When an animal (collection of interworking and specialized eukaryotic cells) eats, it is doing so based on very specific chemical and physical signals. It's not that viruses are worthy, it's that they are aimless and directionless in their "existence". A prokaryote moving towards chemical signals and changing gene expression to consume nutrients to further purposefully divide is not the same a virus that happens to have the right configuration of proteins and genetic information to attach randomly to whatever has the correct antigen to allow for assimilation and replication.

I think the biggest thing is viruses don't react to their environment in how prokaryotes and eukaryotes do. The latter can change gene expression to interact with their environment and even move deliberately (bacteria moving towards chemical signals and then changing membrane proteins to interact with their environment). Viruses just float around, like how atoms flow with little direction and can interact with what's around them the same as 2 hydrogen molecules can interact with an oxygen molecule.

I don't consider viruses or prions alive anymore than I do proteins or atoms.