In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, mink farms in Denmark had to destroy their stock because they might have been infected with the virus. The poor minks were buried in a mass grave… for a while. Their corpses bloated and swelled, bursting through the too-thin layer of soil above them, as though they were zombie minks risen to claim vengeance on us all. Unfortunately, no such appropriate ending to our story was forthcoming, and the minks were reburied.

Perhaps this sounds like too trivial an event to include here. A temporary problem involving some dead animals in Europe? Who cares? The significance is that, at the time, we regarded the prospect of undead minks rising from the earth to set things right as, not the logical next step, but a logical next step. “Yes, of course, this makes sense,” we thought.

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“Culled mink rise from the dead to Denmark’s horror” The Guardian, Jon Henley, Nov 25 2020