Smithfield has closed down its factory after approx. 300 employees tested positive for COVID-19 to protect their employees. They are one of the largest producers of meat in the United States, particularly pork, and are credited with producing 18 million servings of food per day. What if more factories shut down, creating specific food shortages across the […]
People want to raise hell about the government taking their guns… what about taking their fighter jets? Don Kirlin, the owner of Air USA, added to his collection when he purchased 46 more fighter jets from the Royal Australian Air Force. His company is one of the few who provides the Air Force with “adversaries” to help […]
Tesla has adapted the technology from the HVAC system in its cars to create ventilators for COVID-19 patients to use. They hope to mass-produce the ventilators at its gigafactory in Buffalo. I’ve written another story idea about companies pivoting to create new technologies in response to the pandemic but this news inspires a different story idea, one about an […]
Seismologists around the world are seeing less seismic noise in their measurements since humans have reduced their travel because of COVID-19. No cars, no trains, no buses, no planes… without these things, it’s now possible to detect smaller seismic events. Let’s turn this into the beginning of a story. What if the early warnings of a massive […]
The virus behind the COVID-19 outbreak has been found in human feces, meaning the prevalence of the virus in sewage could map the density of current and future outbreaks. Creating a story from this: what if researchers find more than they expected? One, it could be a higher incidence of the virus in the population. With […]
In an effort to limit the amount of person-to-person contact, the state of New York has suspended compost, clothing, and electronics recycling because of Coronavirus. Trash collection and standard recycling (glass and plastic) will continue as normal. But what if the virus was more infectious and led to the suspension of trash/recycling collection altogether? This would lead […]
One of the myths about the virus behind the global pandemic is that it was produced by a scientist and escaped from a lab in Wuhan. This has turned out to be false. The story question: what if it was created by humans, and did escape from a lab? There are multiple ways a story with […]
It works by one person or company owning a fleet of uber-ready cars which they allow drivers access to in exchange for a fee, either flat or as a percentage of their earnings. What if this type of industry popped up for other services? With so many gig workers in the economy, would provide access to a […]
This news story has all the makings for a medical thriller. Suppose there’s a doctor who comes up with this treatment, it could be HIV in the story or some other invented disease, but a big pharmaceutical company tries to stop the doctor from releasing his work because they make money off of their own […]
The other two men who are supposed to run against Trump to be president from 2020-2024 are both also over seventy. What if they all contracted the disease? What would the election look like if the three men who are supposed to run don’t make it to the election? The two leading parties would have […]
