(Watch BBC Pandemic 2018 before this) Hannah Fry and the Peacock Feather: The Spooky Coincidence | Pighooey

In 2018, the UK carried out a simulation exercise to "predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before.” The experiment was commissioned by BBC4, and took the form of a TV documentary called "Contagion!

Haslemere is a small market town in the South of England, and it featured heavily in the documentary as the place the virus was first seeded. Fast forward to February 2020, and in a "spooky coincidence", Haslemere hit the headlines as the location of the UK's Patient Zero for COVID-19...