I had all the joys in the world creating this on my Tablet (as my PC’s PSU died) and tried rendering it on a dual core i5 that clocks down to 1.1 GHz due to thermal limits 
Ended up using 2 Amazon EC2 8 Core instances to help render for ~55 mins, cost me $0.24
Pure entry, “disease containment” or a better title, if you have that 
A bit quicky, this time all models are “flat” consisting of only modified planes, circles…plus some compositing filters.
Some great entries so far.
Here is my non competing entry - containment chamber.
Cycles, 200 samples with some despeckle and softening in the compositor. Border added in paint.net
If I find time I want to work on textures, but I don’t think I would meet the deadline, so I am posting it as is.
When does the Poll begin?
Somewhere around 8:00 tonight in the time zone I would guess you are in (Central Time Zone).
Eastern 
