In two weeks there will be a new virus. No one knows where it will come from or how it will start, but it will begin quietly. At first, it will look like nothing—just a few strange illnesses that don’t match anything doctors have seen before.
Then it will spread faster than expected. Cities will start reporting the same symptoms at the same time, and hospitals will struggle to keep up. Scientists will race to understand it, but every time they think they’ve figured it out, it will change again.
By the time people realize how serious it is, it will already be everywhere. Schools will close, travel will slow, and fear will spread faster than the virus itself.
And the scariest part is not just what it does—but how quickly normal life starts to disappear.