What do viruses/bacteria exactly do inside of our bodies that makes them dangerous and causes us to get sick?
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Mr. Virus is hanging out somewhere in the world and wants to make copies of himself. Mr. Virus doesn’t have the machinery to do it. However those cell in the human body have plenty of machinery for cloning. Buuut they don’t like to share.
Mr. Virus decides the best way to make his clones is to sneak into a cell, hijack the machinery, and start pumping out clones as fast as he can before the body cops find him. Mr. Virus and all his clones absolutely do not care at all at the state of the machinery they leave behind so they use all the cloning pods way more than they were designed to be used and aren’t gentle when using them so they break more.
The body cops have come in to fight Mr. Virus. Unfortunately they really only know one way of doing this, burning down the warehouse with Mr. Virus and his clones inside. As it turns out this also breaks a lot of cells, but because the body cops have a measured response, they only burn down the cells with Mr. Virus in them (and maybe a couple from collateral damage) and stop there.
You feel sick from one of two things going on. 1) Mr. Virus and his clones have used and abused so many cells that a significant number have gone bust from pumping out more clones and now you can consciously feel it. 2) The body cops are in the process of burning down some warehouses and you’re feeling the side effects of that.
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