Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.



This is the news article you find in a paper on the ground in a post apocalypse video game
But can you make anything out of it, or is it just there to see for backstory?
Surely you can’t be serious…
I am serious.
And don’t call me Shirley.
Big headline on top
Little text full of lorem ipsum underneath
Zoom in. more. MORE!
Aha. There’s a garage sale at the weird house for Tuesday. Off day for a rummage, eh?
Alternatively it’s the newspapers you can find in Arcanum where they are really in depth for no reason other than world building.
It reminds me of like January-February 2020.
Like, listening to the radio and every morning the news headlines are “there are now X confirmed cases and extending as far as Y, Z, and W”
And every day, X gets a little bigger, and Y, Z, and W get a little further from Wuhan, until you start to notice that it’s actually getting closer to you. And then you hear about the first reported cases in your country. Et cetera…