CORONAVIRUS AND “THE SILENT PANDEMIC”

COVID-19 is bothering me a lot, right now. It’s not just the fact that we are teetering on the edge of a worldwide pandemic, with case numbers exceeding 90,000, deaths escalating beyond 3000, and WHO moving the global threat level to “very high”.

Or that, according to the OECD, coronavirus will present the global economy with its greatest danger since the 2008 financial crisis.

It’s the realisation that an alarming number of scenes from a speculative thriller I finished writing several months ago appear to be coming true.