Stephen King wrote The Stand. A story about a pandemic that wipes out all but a remnant of humanity – with the remnant being responsible for “standing” up to evil non violently, and removing it from the Earth. Was King foreseeing both the coronavirus pandemic and the removal of “evil” through non-violent healing of the perpetrators? In the mini-series, it was one of their own that destroyed them with a nuclear device – which is not foreseeing “healing” per se, but karma in action perhaps?

This is a prophetic tale, to be sure, that does fit the current events of the day. In a sense, it is a time-honored plot of adversity being overcome by a heroic figure, often someone challenged by an inner flaw of some kind making them a mere mortal and then must wrestle with their own weakness to triumph in the end, or perhaps there is a protagonist who is a representation of a corrupted individual who has greatness within but a fatal flaw that undermines and destroys them in the end. In this case, the plot fits quite closely what humanity is going through at the hands of the Extraterrestrial Alliance, that those in power are flawed and humans are in peril because of it and need to break free. When those in power are challenged, this provides a potential opportunity for humanity to triumph if the powerful fight among themselves and this ends up hindering their enterprise to the benefit of humanity, and that could well happen.