A.
This
doesn’t seem right. Apparently the coffee was checked and given the
green light. The system has only failed to detect something particularly
obscure a handful of times, but most of those mistakes were noticed and
the products were recalled before release. This Ebola sequence, on the
other hand, was completely unmodified (except for the replication
augmentation segment), there is no way that our sequencers would have
missed that. Maybe the machine was faulty, I should consult the
engineers tasked with its maintenance.
Their
preliminary systems diagnostic is back, apparently that machine has
shown several faults over the past two years. Why was I not informed of
these malfunctions? I cross-check the dates of the malfunctions with
suspected or confirmed bioterror attacks. They all coincide. This
certainly presents an interesting conundrum. These accidental releases
were either caused by genuinely faulty machinery (why wouldn’t they just
replace it after several mishaps?) or someone deliberately did this.
Good thing I have a high security clearance, it should let me access all
the encrypted records. You’d think that with such a high requirement to
keep meticulous notes of absolutely everything that happens, someone
would actually read those reports and would have noticed this long ago. I
guess some things never change and lab records will just sit in some
server, gathering virtual dust.
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