Everybody Loves Apocalypse Stories
Indulging My Catastrophe Imagination (Hey, I write sci-fi) " T he warning signs of a longer pandemic" (Headline in Axios*) The perfect pla ce for a sci-fi extrapolation! With active cases of Covid-19 mutating into Covid-21 being so numerous, there is a (darn near) inevitable end-game story. Thus... The End IF: - The South African variant “evades the Pfizer vaccine” - The UK B-1.1.7 variant is “50% more transmissible” - More young people are getting Covid and it’s making them sicker (news pending) - New mutations are popping up like Orville Redenbacker's best... THEN: One or more sci-fi-horror stories are being written in the mystical language of statistics. ( 3σ ) Dramatis personae - “ Heartless Dodger ” A new variant will dodge ALL vaccines - “ Brain Drainer ” A mean mutation will turn “long Covid” into insta-dementia: - “ Coin Flip Killer ” Badass variant will be 50% fatal: Dodger, Drainer and Killer meet, share RN