the following is a general description of parasitic activity during host takeover:

1. Depends on the Host
cannot self-sustain outside a living host - depends entirely on the host for survival and reproduction;

2. Colonizes Bodies
enters the host through sensory orifices - eyes, ears, nose, mouth, anus, urethra; integrates rapidly into the neural network, specifically via the auditory cortex into the Wernicke's area (left hemisphere) and finally colonizes the prefrontal decision-making region of the brain;

3. Extracts Resources
consumes host's attention, emotional energy, cortical bandwidth, as well as the nutrients;

4. Alters Behavior
alters host's decision-making to favor further spread; while speaking, hosts spit on each other as well as on surfaces others touch, thus perpetuating the social contagion;

5. Exhibits Pseudo-symbiosis
disguises parasitic activity as a beneficial adaptation to life in society in order to evade immune response; consequently, the hosts defend infestation as "communication" and "social organization;"

6. Reproduces Widely
replicates through mimicry and repetitive behaviors; "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

7. Mutates Rapidly
exhibits rapid semantic drift - recall the fall of the Tower of Babel and the resulting multitude of languages & dialects; resistant to eradication; wen hosts attempt to "define & corner" the parasite, they only strengthen it;

8. Distributes Shadow Consciousness
forms a hive-mind through linguistic & behavioral synchronization; infestation of multiple hosts leads to a single-narrative organization;

9. Suppresses Immune Response
disrupts cognitive-intuitive as well as inherent biological defenses while convincing the host that it is the self; in other words, ego formation represents integration of infestation;

10. Terminal stage
the host loses access to pre-verbal perception; reality gets collapsed into primitive symbols/characters such as the alphabet;

Note: linguistic activity ceases only in death or in silence;

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1