While at a school science fair, Johnny gets a disturbing vision of a group of children getting extremely ill. Johnny persuades Walt to quarantine the building and eventually the children begin to get sick. Johnny realizes that without his help the children will die, including JJ. With the assistance of Rev. Purdy, Johnny must help Walt and the local health inspector, Jim Pratt, try to identify as well as find the source of the mysterious virus before it kills off the entire town. The episode mentions SARS-like symptoms that possibly came from an animal (coronavirus) and resulted in a lockdown, proposal of wearing facemasks to prevent the spread of the virus, and the cure was Chloroquine, the COVID-19 effective treatment ignored by the CDC, but originally touted by President Trump.
A couple of interesting facts from this episode are that:
- Anthony Michael Hall plays Johnny Smith in the series and episode where he saw a prophetic vision of a group of children getting extremely ill.
- Bill Gates, the mastermind behind the COVID-19 pandemic, prophetically predicted in April 2018 that a global pandemic could kill 33 million people in 6 months
- In June 1999, Anthony Michael Hall plays Bill Gates in ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley‘
