[marcinzm]

>Note: time works against chemical processes since the organic chemical compounds decay, keep that in mind when creating a hypothesis.

The question is how quickly do they decay in a sterile environment. A virus which has no active mechanism for preventing decay can last for days. RNA can have half lives measured in days. That's a lot of time and I'm sure there's more stable variants but in modern times stability is not a prime concern for organic molecules.