Didn't We Already Fix That?!

A recurrence.

(#00240)

“Hey, check this out,” the fellow queuer passed over a pamphlet.

It was the immunoflu update, naming the diseases that the adjusted virus would protect the infected from.

A pointing finger indicated the anomaly. “What the heck is measles?”

“I know, right? That’s like… some weird human name or something.”

“Yes, but viruses have taxonomic names,” she argued. “For something to have a common name, it has to be around for hundreds of years. That just doesn’t happen any more.”

At which point, debate sprung up amongst her neighbouring queuers.

“I heard there was an anti-immuno deep-time colony. The viruses mutated and bred into this super-virus.”

“I heard it was just a regular deep-time colony from before they made the old viruses extinct.”

“I heard it was a string-runner? Trying to make a weapon? It killed them, of course.”

“I heard someone dropped through a space-time anomaly and skipped five hundred years.”

They all stared at the last speculator.

“Like that could possibly happen,” she scoffed.

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