Everybody Loves Apocalypse Stories

 Indulging My Catastrophe Imagination

(Hey, I write sci-fi)

 "The warning signs of a longer pandemic"

(Headline in Axios*)


The perfect place 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 RNA and call their offspring “Bye Y’all.”

Everyone loves an apocalypse story, right?

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