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The Tissue Mafia
Fiction Friday
Some people say that Covid 19 was engineered in Zurich by a secret syndicate of the 19 most powerful producers of paper products in the world. With a growing awareness of global warming and recycling being pushed aggressively by governments all over the world, this group of billionaires focused on the one paper product that nobody was recycling and reusing — effectively cutting them out of the sale of their own product — toilet paper.
Either way, nobody could find a vaccine, or rather nobody could find anyone who was willing to try a vaccine, except those who were already very sick. The internet: YouTube, Facebook and the like, was a garden of conspiracy theories. And the more people had to stay home, as the pandemic raged on, the more they consumed random videos and blog posts about the secret survivors of the Russian Romanov family planning to retake control of the world by distributing a poisonous fake vaccine globally, or a tech billionaire secretly plotting to sterilize people of African descent, even though no one seemed to know how he planned to keep white people from taking the vaccine.
By the third year of the pandemic trucks and trains carrying toilet tissue were being robbed in route to stores. The wealthy paid what ever it took to get it on the black market. The cartels got in on it. The Russians. The Colombians. Gangs sold…
