Mastermind (Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood #1)

by Andrew Mayne

“Hard to imagine how someone could do that to another person,” I reply. “No, it’s not. You just make a person not a person. You start with a label. Maybe it’s a different political party or religion from your own. Then you make them that label and everything you hate about it.

what better way to reset the social order than with a minor apocalypse?”

we live in a world where leaders of nations can send missiles into other countries to clumsily murder enemies, kill innocents with drones, and still be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

Medicine is conservative. Sometimes for the right reasons. Sometimes for the wrong reasons. We’ll let people die from a pandemic because we don’t want to give them a cure that might also kill them. It’s easier to deal with the repercussions of a death by natural causes than a death from an experimental procedure. We worry about fallout more than data.

I can tell from her questions that she is highly educated but horrible at statistics and has only a weak understanding of world events.