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The city woke before dawn to emergency instructions transmitted across every public screen in the kingdom. By sunrise, every district in the capital had received sector assignments directing citizens where to report for mandatory immunization, and the response was immediate enough that, to most of the population, it appeared to be precisely what we intended it to appear to be—a coordinated public health operation.
Overnight, immunization tents had been erected across civic squares, transport corridors, market districts, and municipal compounds. Medical teams moved through final preparations while supply units distributed doses under armed escort. It carried all the visible mechanics of crisis response.
But beneath all the visible machinery of crisis response, a second operation w
