Northern Lights (4/7)

Northern Lights part 4.

( Monday morning turned out to be just as wet, cold and grey as Sunday had been and I didn't want to get out bed anymore than I had then. I did though, because I didn't want to be late and have Nightingale on at me about going out drinking when I had work in the morning. Not that I usually did, but he was always grumpy when he was ill, so playing it safe was the preferred strategy. )

Fic and current news events.

No, there's nothing about fan fic in the news, rather this is about writing fic that has a suject matter that could be seen as similar to current events on the news.

Basically I've got a part finished fic (Started a few months ago) of which the later parts deal with a massive disease pandemic where a lot of people die (It's not apocalyptic style fic where only 1% or men or women or those under 18 etc survive, it's something that lies roughly halfway between the Black Death and Spanish Flu).

I'm not likely to get it finished soon as I've got two current fics I'm working on Northern Lights and Lives are for Living, and after that I've got the House of the Dead fic to do. So I'm looking at early in the New Year for this one.

So my thought is with Ebola in the news and likley to be for some months, would it be in bad taste to write a fic about disease pandemic? The disease in the fic isn't in anyway similar to Ebola and death rate from infection isn't anywhere near as high, it is mostly based on the Spanish Flu 1914 - but set current day.

What are peoples thoughts on this? Have any of you held off writing/posting a fic due to things in the news?