That book is going to turn out to be prophecy.

I mean, obviously we're not going to see a physical virus that enters as sensory information --

Wait. ... Are COVID and anti-masking part of the same replicator-complex? ... I see how anti-masking helps COVID. But how would COVID help anti-masking? I don't see how. ... Ok, probably not.

-- but that book's concerns seem incredibly prescient.

What disturbs me most is how L. Bob Rife, the bad guy, in his one and only monologue, in a TV recording (weird how he never appears in person), seems to... basically be correct.

Biomass.

Head-desk. That's exactly what I was thinking of.