We Should Have Known

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Chapter Nine continues from last week:

“We should have known,” said Muriel.

“I guess I was over-optimistic,” agreed Andy.

“Don’t beat yourself up,” said Velma, “it would have worked if the government and Big Pharma actually cared about the safety of the population. The post mortems alone would have already proved there is no contagion. But their pathogen narrative is going to make them a lot of money. How many government ministers’ families stand to get richer off the sale of PPE? How many of them have shares in Smaxo-Pith-Whine? Or any of the other fat-cat drug pushers? They were determined to exploit the world for another vaccine and nothing we could have said or done was going to change that.”

Andy rolled a rubber ball across the floor for Sammy. “Well then, we’ll have to actually prove it.”

Velma shook her head. “There’s nothing to prove. The government already knows there’s no disease.”

“Remember this government, and every one before it, still subsidises animal farming despite knowing it’s destroying the planet!” Muriel had as much faith in governments as Velma. “They know but they don’t care.”

“I don’t mean prove it to the government, I mean prove it to the general public! To the people!”

“How?”

“I know how to make videos go viral. I’ve done it before and I know I can do it again.”

“What video?” asked Velma.

“Remember the one of the white duck who’d escaped from a farm and protected a wild duck fro-?”

Muriel interrupted. “She means what video are you going to use to prove the vampire exists?”

“Oh, well, I thought,” he hesitated for a moment, “I thought if we film Velma …”

Velma said “No!” and she meant it. “Absolutely not!”

Muriel was also doubtful. “D’you mean you want to film Velma killing someone?” She screwed up her face with distaste. “Oh no Andy, that would be a snuff film.”

“Don’t be a hypocrite. We know she’s doing it and we’re not saying she shouldn’t. But you think filming it’s going too far? How else do you suggest we prove to the world that the vampire exists?”

“It wouldn’t work anyway,” said Velma, “they’d just say we faked it.”

“How could they say that when they’ve got the dead body as proof that it wasn’t faked?”

“They’d say we injected him with the “pathogen” to kill him, that the vampire bit was faked.”

“She’s right Andy,” Muriel added, “whatever we do or say, they’ll twist it to suit their own story.”

Andy threw up his hands. “What are we gonna do then? How are we going to stop them experimenting on animals for this fake disease?”

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How are they going to stop them?! Come back tomorrow to find out more, unless you want to read it now 😀

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