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Authors: Donel Gillies
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there was a vaccine so quickly. Which, of course, didn’t seem to be working, in fact, from all accounts the vaccine was making the situation worse. It was not only failing to protect people from the virus it was making them sick, turning them into, zombies. A new batch of vaccines was reported to have been shipped out but no one knew where or how or if it even worked. The world was a mess.
By early evening we were seeing some containment of the plague. Countries around the world were closing their borders. Militaries were using all means available to quarantine affected areas. Portions of the U. S. were without power but the outbreaks looked like they were controlled. As night fell we were secured in the house with electricity.
Sleep was not easy but eventually we all fell off.
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I woke with a start and looked around. We were all still in the living room the boys sleeping on the floor, Christine on the couch. I had fallen asleep in a chair. The TV was still on, volume low. I turned it up.
“…. and the fact that all of this could have been prevented is unconscionable. Deceiving the public to this extent and endangering people not only in this country but around the world is an offence beyond measure. ” Some guy was going off on a rant. I was too tired to tell what about exactly or who he was. I sat in a stupor for a few seconds and then groaned as I got to my feet. Coffee would no doubt help.
When I got back someone else was going on about the “ mess they had brought on us all ”. After a few minutes I woke up enough to realize they were talking about the weapons and chemical labs found in Iraq and that this was not shared with the public. They went on about what should have happened and what should now happen and that government had failed us.
“Ya know what,” I thought out loud, “who cares? How do we fix this now?”
I switched channels looking for information on whether the virus was contained or not. Most of what I found was more talking about who did what and didn’t do what and who was to blame and who should be thrown out of office and who should be charged for crimes. It was nuts that these people were talking about this unless….unless the spread of the virus had been stopped overnight and we were back to our normal world.
No such luck. I soon found more reports that the UK had been ravaged. People were being moved to Ireland which had not been infected yet. Violence was breaking out there because some did not want to risk the chance of the virus coming in with the refugees.
A map showed red areas here the plague existed. It was moving into Turkey and Georgia. It was already in Greece and moving around the Mediterranean. France and Germany had spots of red. The North African desert appeared to have it contained but it had moved south into Ethiopia and then west to Cameroon and now was spreading south.
India was nearly all red. It looked like a military map indicating troop movement and the red guys were winning.
South America had little read, small spots at Caracas and Rio.
Red radiated out from Mexico City but Central America was mostly void of the plague. In the U. S. the North Eastern coast from Virginia to New Hampshire was red. From Atlanta to Miami west to Mississippi was red for hundreds of miles around Chicago, Dallas, and Huston were red. All of California and up the west coast was red.
Canada was clean as was China and Japan.
The commentators on TV were saying that in the worst hit areas the plague spread at a rate of about ten kilometers every hour. The population density greatly affected the rate, of course. Lines of military had been set up in places to stop the spread but so far had only been able to slow its progress.
That was not good news for us. I got more coffee for me and a cup for Christine then woke her up.
“Hey, we need to make some plans.”
“OK, ooo coffee.” she took a sip, “I have to go pee-pee”
I sat and
By early evening we were seeing some containment of the plague. Countries around the world were closing their borders. Militaries were using all means available to quarantine affected areas. Portions of the U. S. were without power but the outbreaks looked like they were controlled. As night fell we were secured in the house with electricity.
Sleep was not easy but eventually we all fell off.
-——————————————
I woke with a start and looked around. We were all still in the living room the boys sleeping on the floor, Christine on the couch. I had fallen asleep in a chair. The TV was still on, volume low. I turned it up.
“…. and the fact that all of this could have been prevented is unconscionable. Deceiving the public to this extent and endangering people not only in this country but around the world is an offence beyond measure. ” Some guy was going off on a rant. I was too tired to tell what about exactly or who he was. I sat in a stupor for a few seconds and then groaned as I got to my feet. Coffee would no doubt help.
When I got back someone else was going on about the “ mess they had brought on us all ”. After a few minutes I woke up enough to realize they were talking about the weapons and chemical labs found in Iraq and that this was not shared with the public. They went on about what should have happened and what should now happen and that government had failed us.
“Ya know what,” I thought out loud, “who cares? How do we fix this now?”
I switched channels looking for information on whether the virus was contained or not. Most of what I found was more talking about who did what and didn’t do what and who was to blame and who should be thrown out of office and who should be charged for crimes. It was nuts that these people were talking about this unless….unless the spread of the virus had been stopped overnight and we were back to our normal world.
No such luck. I soon found more reports that the UK had been ravaged. People were being moved to Ireland which had not been infected yet. Violence was breaking out there because some did not want to risk the chance of the virus coming in with the refugees.
A map showed red areas here the plague existed. It was moving into Turkey and Georgia. It was already in Greece and moving around the Mediterranean. France and Germany had spots of red. The North African desert appeared to have it contained but it had moved south into Ethiopia and then west to Cameroon and now was spreading south.
India was nearly all red. It looked like a military map indicating troop movement and the red guys were winning.
South America had little read, small spots at Caracas and Rio.
Red radiated out from Mexico City but Central America was mostly void of the plague. In the U. S. the North Eastern coast from Virginia to New Hampshire was red. From Atlanta to Miami west to Mississippi was red for hundreds of miles around Chicago, Dallas, and Huston were red. All of California and up the west coast was red.
Canada was clean as was China and Japan.
The commentators on TV were saying that in the worst hit areas the plague spread at a rate of about ten kilometers every hour. The population density greatly affected the rate, of course. Lines of military had been set up in places to stop the spread but so far had only been able to slow its progress.
That was not good news for us. I got more coffee for me and a cup for Christine then woke her up.
“Hey, we need to make some plans.”
“OK, ooo coffee.” she took a sip, “I have to go pee-pee”
I sat and
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