Tuesday, 4th March 1997
Damn! I did have a proper morning message and everything, I knew what I was going to say, this is what it was.
Okay, so we've been told that there's this bug in the water supplies. The first I heard of it, yesterday MORNING, only Watford and Hemel Hempstead were affected, with 30 cases of linked illness reported. Remember that; 30 cases in total by 7.30am.
The bug is non-lethal and only mildly toxic, but widely publicised. Therefore you think twice about using tapwater, not just for drinking but FULL STOP; showers are quicker, baths 'feel' unrelaxing, that sort of thing. And spread that over the whole of the region, that's a lot of water. Not many people would bother to boil drinking water, then let it cool, when the local suermarket stocks inexpensive bottled water (last night at Harrow Tesco was a massacre, folks; they had a security guard on the Evian trolley). The bug has since been explained calmly and rationally; no blame is apportionable to Three Valleys.
Now then, the country as a whole (Three Valleys in particular) has been suffering the driest winter for over a hundred years. Stocks are dwindling now, imagine what they'll be like in the summer. Public water companies cannot financially endure embarrassment in the summer when water usage is at its highest, the shares would take a huge battering.
However, if there were to be a little scare and the company was seen to take charge from the outset (which it was), then share confidence wouldn't be hit quite as hard, and over three days, or a week say, the water saved would be the equivalent of the same time in continuous downpour, protecting the stocks for the summer and saving the company.
Something they could control from the start; say, a very mild poisoning of a small area affecting few people that could be SAID to affect the whole system. And maybe a mild outbreak of psychosomatic poisoning throughout the region, just to make it look good.
Last night on the nine o'clock news - 30 genuine connected cases had been reported. Fourteen hours, a few million people, and no change.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly give you: this month's Conspiracy Theory!!!
B (Vigilant)
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Holy Shit, I remember this! I also remember a friend of mine returning from a long trip to the US, coming home (no-one was in) and pouring himself a glass of water. He spent the next 24 hours throwing up. A lot.
Okay, so that sends the "not a real bug" part of my theory flying out the window, but STILL...
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