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While Influenza hammered at the cell’s surface, causing a ruckus, Sketchy would drift by, looking for a specific doorknob: the ACE2 receptor. It was a humble protein, a blood pressure regulator, minding its own business on the surface of lung cells. Sketchy’s crooked spike would tap it once, twice. A misfolded key in a rusty lock. Click.

“Rule number one,” he would whisper to the new virions budding off from a ruptured lung cell. “Don’t break the door. Pick the lock.” coronavirus sketchy micro

He didn't kill the runner. He just made him cough for three days. Then he jumped to the runner’s friend. Then to the friend’s grandmother. While Influenza hammered at the cell’s surface, causing