The Virus
The Virus It seemed to have come from nowhere, but in reality, it had been around for a few months in a small part of China. Scientists initially thought it originated in Bats and then managed to jump species to us…humans, but some people, and by ‘some people’ I mainly mean the media, thought that it was too much of a coincidence that China had a biological warfare laboratory only yards from where the first incidence of the virus was reported to have come from. Across the world, front-page headlines pronounced the virus had somehow escaped from a laboratory and had been manufactured as a biological weapon, but this was never proved and strongly denied by the Chinese authorities. They did just about everything possible to show that the virus had originated in a live-animal market in a small village that just happened to be near the laboratory. A few people tried to focus on the man-made synthetic-virus-thing for a while but very quickly it was swept under the prov...