The Pattern Files
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Something is wrong.
The patterns are everywhere — in the blueprints, the filings, the names that keep showing up in places they shouldn't. I started writing it down because my department wouldn't listen. I started recording because the page wasn't enough.
I'm not a journalist. I'm not an investigator. I'm a professor with a legal pad and a data set that won't let me sleep. What follows are the case files — the episodes, the evidence, the questions I can't stop asking. I publish them here because if the feed goes quiet, the quiet is the answer.
— Asa Thibodeaux, early 2019
Chapter 4: Pandemic Preparation H
Asa says yes to a college reunion cruise planned for April 2020, and then learns that old friends in five different industries have all just sat through pandemic drills. He goes looking for the reason and finds that the scenarios are public, detailed and rehearsed by serious institutions. In the story, this is the recording that keeps coming down.