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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

"A premonition. A warning."

First references to the eponymous premonition, Gary...

A couple of months into the swine flu pandemic, Richard sensed that his journal might be a valuable historical document. Once it became clear that swine flu would come and go, like a massive hurricane that dissipated before making landfall, it became something else. A message in a bottle. A premonition. A warning. 118

It was December 21, 2019. She’d spent the previous few months asking herself why she’d ever come here, but now she felt this premonition. It resembled the feeling she sometimes had at the start of an outbreak back in Santa Barbara County. “It always starts with one case and an eerie silence,” she said.131

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for clearing this up. I thought there might be more than one answer to this question.

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