SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 Scenario discussed by Jane Williams for The Bases project

Banned SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 Scenario discussed by Jane Williams for The Bases project, in Nov 2020.
POSSIBLEFUTUREIN2025: THE“ECHOCHAMBER”UNBRIDLEDGLOBALACCESSTOINFORMATIONCOUPLEDWITHSOCIALFRAGMENTATIONANDSELF-AFFIRMINGWORLDVIEWSScenario PurposeThe following narrative comprises a futuristic scenario that illustrates communication dilemmas concerning medical countermeasures (MCMs) that could plausibly emerge in the not-so-distant future. Its purpose is to prompt users, both individually and in discussion with others, to imagine the dynamic and oftentimes conflicted circumstances in which communication around emergency MCM development, distribution, and uptake takes place. While engaged with a rigorous simulated health emergency, scenario readers have the opportunity to mentally “rehearse” responses while also weighing the implications of their actions. At the same time, readers have a chance to consider what potential measures implemented in today’s environment might avert comparable communication dilemmas or classes of dilemmas in the future. Generation PurposeThis prospective scenario was developed through a combination of inductive and deductive approaches delineated by Ogilvy and Schwartz.1The timeframe for the scenario (the years 2025-2028) was selected first, and then major socioeconomic, demographic, technological, and environmental trends likely to have emerged by that period were identified. Specifically, two dominant trends likely to influence regulatory and public responses to future public health emergencies were selected: one, varying degrees of access to information technology; and two, varying levels of fragmentation among populations along social, political, religious, ideological, and cultural lines. A scenario matrix was then constructed, illustrating four possible worlds shaped by these trends, with consideration given to both constant and unpredictable driving forces