It's an ideal virus for a right-wing, authoritarian take over init?
Suspend Parliament.
Emergency legislation.
Restrict travel.
Ban gatherings.
Slim down the NHS to only deal with coronavirus
Reduce police force to only 'essential services' - probably means protecting property.
Advice to not use cash - all purchases now traceable
Rationing tinfoil sales
This is just a test run...
It has the makings of a cheesy dystopian Netflix drama.
Employee 793. Working in a secret military lab, due to an administrative error following a minor fire, discovers there's more to producing a vaxene for some obscure virus thought to have only effected water fowel.
"They isolated all our teams. We shared our results anonymously through an air gapped encrypted network. No one knows the other guys names. It was for our safety."
But bigger mistakes were made.
<scenes of infected birds escaping during fire>
As reports of a spike in flue cases around the region come out, the lab goes dark.
<military bods in covert meeting>
"What the hell happened here. Project flamingo wasn't ready."
"One thing I learned in Afghanistan, you get the plan or you get the time. Never both. What do virus's do, they adapt to survive. I say we adapt, learn, this is what the suits wanted anyway. They can't complain too much, we just came in under budget and ahead of schedule."
As a slow creeping panic takes hold, emergency measures are brought in, lock down begins
<hazmat suit wearing troops guarding government buildings>
<Armed patrols, curfews>
<stockpiling, panic>
Employee 793 realises they're infected themselves. They know they must flee with only the partial solution to a vaxene. But where can they run, who can they tell?
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www.gov.uk
