Hannah_Fry_and_the_Peacock_Feather_Part_One__The_Spooky_Coincidence

In 2018, the UK carried out a simulation exercise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gge_R_eoX0&t=0s) to "predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before." The experiment was commissioned by BBC4, and took the form of a TV documentary called "Contagion!

Haslemere is a small market town in the South of England, and it featured heavily in the documentary as the place the virus was first seeded. Fast forward to February 2020, and in a "spooky coincidence (https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/haslemere-coronavirus-bbc-four-contagion-17844757)", Haslemere hit the headlines as the location of the UK's Patient Zero for COVID-19