They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: "Next pandemic is around the corner,' expert warns – but would lockdown ever happen again?"

On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: "The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?"

Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside "the world's deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic".

Just two days ago a professional panic spreader wrote for CNN:

The next pandemic threat demands action now!!!

OK, I added the exclamation points, but they are very much implied in the original text.

So, while Iran and Israel rattle their sabres on the front pages, I thought we should take a look at the quieter back pages to see what we can learn, and help us predict how "the next pandemic" will unfold.

WHAT IS "THE NEXT PANDEMIC"?
I mean…I feel like that's fairly self-explanatory.

Seriously though, it's the one they've been predicting from pretty much the moment Covid started. First it was going to be monkey pox – sorry MPox – but that fizzled.

Of course by "pandemic", we really mean "psy-op", because nothing about the next pandemic will be any more real than the last pandemic. Hell, given the leaps forward in AI technology, it could be considerably less real next time.

We don't know any of the details yet, but there's enough vague coverage to tease out some guesstimates.