Random Selection vs

Universal Conscription

The eerie global attention on a natural
phenomenon that has caused the global
community, continent by continent to 
shut down, isolate, sacrifice time ingenuity 
and economies to a single focal point to stem
an unstoppable tide of mass annihilation 
where a ferociously reproducing virus 
geared to its survival threatens humanity's 
has its counterpart in the not-so-distant past 
when a single ethnic minority became the 
deadly target of the virus of totalitarian
ideology calling for its total destruction 
and their plight went unnoticed by a world 
too busy for such distractions while the 
targets were relentlessly hunted, sequestered
trucked to holding centres until they could
most conveniently be destroyed once 
all they possessed had been looted, from 
gold and art and finally skin and hair in a 
mobilization of conflict-useful confiscation
that began in slave labour and ended in 
malnutrition, disease and death. Jews
likened to pathogens that must be destroyed
lest their presence contaminate global society
terrorized and dehumanized, no defences 
to halt their organized obliteration. Now an 
unleashed pestilence grinds its way through 
continent after continent eliciting desperate 
fear and the entire world takes notice urgently 
searching science for a cure to rescue humanity
from the scourge it obliviously released. 
Humanity in nature's own relentless cross
hairs, deadly variations on a dread theme.