[11th_VA]

The pretend outbreak started small: Farmers began coming down with symptoms that resembled the flu or pneumonia. From there, the virus spread to crowded and impoverished urban neighborhoods in South America.

Flights were canceled, and travel bookings dipped by 45%. People disseminated false information on social media.

After six months, the virus had spread around the globe. A year later, it had killed 65 million people.

[goldstategop]

The Black Death killed a third of the population in medieval Europe in a very short period of time.

We shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking we could handle a pandemic that can kill millions of people quickly.

We can’t and the resultant social disruption is going to be of a catastrophic nature.