The smoking man emails

Was there ever a deadly and novel virus?

Those of you familiar with the cult 90s TV series the X-files will recall the role of the smoking man, who like ‘deep throat’ in the Watergate scandal, would reveal snippets of the truth to Mulder and Scully at critical points in their shared adventures.

Back in 2020 I had my very own smoking man. He was anonymous but I called him “The Cleric”. We starte…