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fresh
And the following doesn't even get into the contagious question

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1. Satisfy kochs postulates
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Has NOT been done.

Infectious nature of alleged virus unproven...

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So Fresh, nice that you find these postulates credible, since their purpose was to provide criteria for establishing a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease.

Koch's postulates (formulated in 1890) are as follows

-The bacteria must be present in every case of the disease.

-The bacteria must be isolated from the host with the disease and grown in pure culture.

-The specific disease must be reproduced when a pure culture of the bacteria is inoculated into a healthy susceptible host.

-The bacteria must be recoverable from the experimentally infected host.

Please note that all these postulates refer to a bacteria, not a virus. A virus is not a bacteria, and a bacteria is not a virus.

Also, from Wikipedia (in blue, including references): "Koch abandoned the universalist requirement of the first postulate altogether when he discovered asymptomatic carriers of cholera[4] and, later, of typhoid fever. Asymptomatic or subclinical infection carriers are now known to be a common feature of many infectious diseases, especially viral diseases such as polio, herpes simplex, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. ("asymptomatic" means no symptoms)

The third postulate specifies "should", not "must", because as Koch himself proved in regard to both tuberculosis and cholera,[6] not all organisms exposed to an infectious agent will acquire the infection. Noninfection may be due to such factors as general health and proper immune functioning; acquired immunity from previous exposure or vaccination; or genetic immunity, as with the resistance to malaria conferred by possessing at least one sickle cell allele.

There are a few other exceptions to Koch's postulates. A single pathogen can cause several disease conditions. Additionally, a single disease condition can be caused by several different microorganisms. Some pathogens cannot be cultured in the lab, and some pathogens only cause disease in humans.[7]

In summary, an infectious agent that satisfies Koch's postulates can be concluded to cause disease, but due to the postulates' shortcomings they are not strictly necessary for this conclusion."

So Koch himself, to his credit as a worthy scientist/researcher and a high-character individual, was able to abandon his original postulates as the science of the day developed.