fictional stories of John Reizer

The Overseers (Fiction)

Dr. Walter Kelly stood in a dimly lit conference room. He watched a bank of computer monitors that featured red, yellow, and green dots over various cities in South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Each dot represented another reported outbreak, epidemic, or full-blown pandemic.

“Fear spreads much faster than any virus,” he said softly. “If you want to move vaccine stocks, you need to create fear, lots of it!”

Around a nearby mahogany conference table sat twelve scientists. Some of these men and women had once worked for different governments. Others came from pharmaceutical companies, and a few others from military research labs.

All of those in attendance believed the same thing: human beings were much easier to control when they were afraid.

Their group called itself The Overseers.
Their mission and plan had started five years earlier. They did not create deadly diseases. That was way too risky and a very unpredictable proposition. Instead, they focused on targeting the core systems used to detect diseases: diagnostic tests!

Hospitals, governments, and media corporations trusted such tests. The Overseers figured out long ago that the numbers diagnostic tests produced shaped people’s perceptions of reality.

One of the attendees, Dr. Katrina Williams, a molecular biologist, had designed small changes to the testing chemicals used worldwide in diagnostic tests. The altered reagents caused harmless proteins and common infections in most people to trigger false positives for more dangerous illnesses.

One week, thousands of perfectly healthy people tested positive for a hemorrhagic fever in Southeast Asia. The next month, clinics across Europe detected a rare respiratory virus in thousands of healthy individuals.

A short time later, livestock diseases appeared out of nowhere in South America, followed by reports of disturbing human neurological infections in North America.

To most health professionals, the outbreaks seemed completely unrelated. That was, of course, intentional and part of the Overseer’s plan.

News channels ran nonstop coverage of the disease outbreaks. Multiple governments declared public health emergencies. International Airports installed temperature scanners. Mask sales exploded and went through the roof.

Soon after that, financial markets crashed and recovered in volatile trading.

Most physicians never questioned the tests. Instead, they became overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number of cases and by the need to save patients’ lives, working around the clock.

Only a few people noticed some strange patterns associated with the swarm of new illnesses.

One such lab technologist, Dr. Laura Holt, worked at a small independent laboratory in Toronto, Canada. She saw patients testing positive for diseases while showing no symptoms whatsoever. Blood samples from healthy people yielded identical results across the spectrum, confirming positive results for a myriad of concerning, life-threatening diseases.

Something felt wrong to Laura. She began repeating the tests using older diagnostic kits stored in her facility’s basement.

Her hunch about the weird patterns grew stronger as the positive test results miraculously disappeared.

Before getting too overly excited, Laura did some detective work on the lab equipment to rule out any possible calibration errors. Then she compared testing kits from multiple suppliers. Different labels, different companies, all had the same microscopic additive hidden inside the testing kits.

A chill worked its way through her entire body. Laura had realized that someone had coordinated this grand deception.

Laura immediately sent warnings to health agencies. Most of the regulatory bodies ignored her. A few accused her of spreading misinformation during a global emergency.

Meanwhile, the Overseers continued to monitor the public panic spreading across the realm.

The tremendous panic created enormous demand for new vaccines, treatments, emergency funding, and disease surveillance systems.

Politicians promised increased protection. Corporations signed billion-dollar contracts overnight.

The Overseers watched it happen from their hidden facility beneath an abandoned research station in Iceland.

“We never needed real epidemics,” Katrina said one evening. “People only needed proof on paper.”

But cracks in the scheme were beginning to show themselves. Independent labs in India, Kenya, and Brazil started reporting similar inconsistencies.

Then an alternative news journalist leaked internal documents showing pressure on regulators to fast-track unreliable testing systems.

Trust in the public health emergency narratives began to collapse.

Then Laura found the final piece to solve the incredible puzzle.

A private computer server connected every contaminated test kit to a manufacturer owned by a fictitious shell company owned by the Overseers.

Laura uploaded the files to thousands of mirror websites across the internet before the authorities could stop her.

Within hours of the information being uploaded, governments began denying everything, and pharmaceutical corporations blamed suppliers. Scientists accused one another. Protesters flooded city streets demanding immediate answers.

Deep beneath the Icelandic snow, Dr. Walter Kelly watched the chaos spread across the television screens.

This time, however, the chaos was not anchored in fear but rather in doubt.

Dr. Kelly stared silently at a television screen showing a mainstream news broadcast as one of his team members asked a chilling question none of them had ever considered before.

“What happens when people stop trusting science entirely?”

THE END!

Hi everyone,

I’m currently writing a collection of short stories that I will eventually publish in a book; some of those stories I have been sharing on NoFakeNews. If one or two really grab me, I’ll likely develop them into a full-length novella or novel.

Thanks so much for being patient with me and for reading my creative works and nonfiction essays.

John Reizer

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