Covid-19. It sounded so ominous, tailor-made for trope mad scientist formulas, designed for doomsday weapons or government conspiracies or biological terrorism, like Stephen King’s Project Blue in The Stand, or Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain, or the afflictions depicted in any number of zombie movies or sci-fi television shows. It was catchy, with just the right kind of inflection to run sensational headlines. People were afraid.
And So It Began...
And So It Began...
And So It Began...
Covid-19. It sounded so ominous, tailor-made for trope mad scientist formulas, designed for doomsday weapons or government conspiracies or biological terrorism, like Stephen King’s Project Blue in The Stand, or Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain, or the afflictions depicted in any number of zombie movies or sci-fi television shows. It was catchy, with just the right kind of inflection to run sensational headlines. People were afraid.