The warning was not a drill and it did not arrive with the familiar comforting cadence of a routine test. It hit television screens radios and smartphones in a synchronized wave of cold clinical urgency that felt deeply personal and terrifyingly absolute. Governments across the globe scrambled to issue statements using the word precautionary to describe the sudden intrusion into daily life but the public heard something entirely different. They heard the sound of history clearing its throat. In bustling border towns in glass towers within capital cities and in the quietest suburban neighborhoods families paused mid-sentence and mid-meal to…
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