The trial of the century
In February 2030, a month-long trial takes place at the United Nations in Geneva. On trial are the surviving leaders and scientists who in 2020 and 2021 instigated the most draconian public health response in history, which went on to have profound and overwhelmingly negative consequences in numerous different areas of life. Day 1 The leader of the Chinese Communist Party in 2020, Xi Jinping, was assassinated by his own comrades in 2025, so cannot stand trial for wilfully covering up the origins of Covid-19 and seeding it throughout the world by failing to stop international flights out of China. The current leader of China, his cousin, Ming Chai, refuses to attend the trial, sending instead an elderly scientist who is said to have worked at the Wuhan lab of Virology. He fails to say a single word in response to questions, so the first day concludes unsatisfactorily. Day 2 Footage is shown in court of Chinese people collapsing in the street in early 2020, footage that had been beame