VAARAJOKI Cluster North

A new virus does not strike the elderly first. It targets children and young adults-and it moves faster than politics.It begins in the far north of Finland, in a small village. Within days, the same genome is detected in an ICU in Hammerfest, a break room at the Port of Hamburg, and a field hospital in eastern Ukraine. The cluster soon labelled Cluster North travels along the world s energy and logistics chains: farms, ports, terminals, ships.At the Sn hvit LNG plant, one wrong decision does not merely reduce output it can trigger a catastrophe. In Hamburg, young workers are admitted to intensive care with respiratory failure. In Ukraine, limited vaccine batches become ruthless arithmetic. In Geneva, WHO expert Dr Eira Kallio tries to build the Lapland Protocol before the system breaks.Which connections do you cut to keep the world alive?This is a work of fiction.