The Black Death of the fourteenth century, then followed by Spanish Influenza, AIDS, Sars, Ebola, Covid-19, Traeped-64, etc. etc. etc, and lastly Delor of the twenty-fourth century. There have been any number of serious diseases over the millennia that had serious consequences for the population. Doubtless there were hundreds of others before history recorded them, but we are still here, so the worst that can be said of them is that they exerted considerable selection pressure on the human genome, and that of other species too, possibly creating a deleterious genetic bottleneck, but that is idle speculation, and as a species we are still here. Bubonic plague wiped out possibly two hundred million people, possibly sixty percent of the Eurasian population at the time, but the species survived. With many of the more recent diseases there were always concomitant conspiracy theories. From the mid twentieth century on there was speculation that the diseases originated in research laboratories in the US, Canada, the UK, China and somehow ‘accidentally escaped’.

Actually just about every country with any biological ability at all was mentioned at some point. Once into the twenty-first century the conspiracy theories changed, but only in one particular, and that was the ‘accidental escape’ of diseases scientists were researching was replaced by the ‘deliberate release’ of diseases scientists were deliberately creating. Later it was speculated that viral agents had been genetically tailored to attack certain ethnic groups leaving the originators’ ethnic group imune and that it had been done to curtail the Earths burgeoning population. There was never any evidence one way or the other, but as an expert in such matters I can say that to do so was not beyond the realms of possibility. However, it looks like we’ve really done it this time. What the hell you call it I have no idea because genocide is a completely inadequate term to describe wiping out humanity in its entirety. Specicide? Would that do? I don’t suppose it matters if it’s an adequate word grammatically or otherwise because give it a century or so and there will be no one around to bitch about it.

What is so bloody ridiculous about it all is that we all knew what we were doing or at least we knew what the recently created Isofem DNA manipulant virus did. It was a huge breakthrough, a gift to trans women, for it turned those trans women and trans girls who’d been born in the bodies of boys into women and girls, the real deal, no trans about them at all. And I, Doctor Sophia Torsen, was so proud of my part in the achievement, and so happy too, for I had been Doctor Eric Larsen before my marriage to Vladimir Torsen. The best that can be said is that there will be no physical pain associated with it. Who was to know that we would be able to infect every male on the planet and that within a month men, like the Black Death, would be history.