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Post by Linz on Apr 10, 2012 10:05:36 GMT -5
It was a joke, another chance for us all to laugh in the face of everyone who buys into the latest doomsday theory. Imagine the amusement for those of us who stood strong as we woke up the day after to see the kid next door asking if he’d like us to shovel snow off the driveway for five bucks. Everything, just the way it always was. Maybe a couple of us chuckled as we paid the kid, went back inside and fixed a nice cup of coffee.
We were fools to think that doom had to be something big, something that we could see. We were simpletons, feeling all too powerful, not to consider a single cell attack. So while we went about our lives; while we yelled at the asshole holding up traffic, treated our sweetheart to a special dinner, and stayed up late watching endless comedies… it was moving. It was spreading. It was growing. And by the time we spotted it lurking in our systems, for many of us it would be too late.
Months later thousands are dead of no apparent cause. Victims are piled up in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. In hopes of keeping of the unknown pathogen out, the unaffected continents close their borders. They don’t know that it is already too late, that the virus is live in the bloodstreams of so many and only waiting for the opportune moment to shut their system down.
Scientists are hard at work. Governments institute policies that promise to protect their citizens. But how can you fight the unknown when you don’t know its weakness? This is not the documentary of how it was handled worldwide. It is not the story of a nation’s struggle. This is the story of one city and its battle with a deadly disease.
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