“I think maybe he’s picked up some strange ideas about, well, about what happened.” He still had no words for it, he realized. No one spoke of it directly. “What kind of strange ideas?” “He thinks the pandemic happened for a reason,” Clark said. “It did happen for a reason.” “Well, right, but I mean a reason besides the fact that almost everyone on earth caught an extremely deadly swine-flu mutation. He seems to think there was some sort of divine judgment involved.”
