The Grinning Death of the Coronavirus

Rizus sardanikus, as it is called in the scientific community, or just the rick-disc grin to the lay person. The typical subject will spit out their own tongue before the roof of the mouth and the lower jaws succumb to an increasingly rapid disintegration. All of this, from the first dribble of gum blood to the end of a person's life, takes roughly half an hour. Perhaps as long as forty minutes if the subject is hail and healthy and in the prime of life. No one understood how quick and completely this final plague would wreak its devastation upon the world. Richie Englander knew all of the best and most important people, but few

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