"It's getting worse."-
"Of course it is Nina, they're all Idiots, how could it get better?"
"You do know you don't have to always call them idiots Vice" Nina said as she cleaned a coffee spill on the counter, long red hair spilling over her shoulder and almost landing in the spill.
"Oh come on, we have to take all these security and health measures and they just walk around like nothing is going on." standing with his arms crossed and leaning against the back counter, Vice said with an eyebrow raised.
"And it's not like I'm being any meaner than usual, in fact one could even say I'm being extra nice."
As she threw him an ugly look and threw away the papers she used to clean, he couldn't help but think about how this all started.
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•Viral Pandemic: Death Toll Surpasses the Black Plague!
•Europe Shut all Borders!
•What does The Prince have to say on the Virus?
•Kendra Jenkins Butt is Bigger than before!Lockdown workouts?
•END OF THE WORLD: GOD WILL SAVE THE HOLY
•Yawm al-Qiyāmah: We shall see Jannah
It had started with the world panicking, with a 50/50 split of people saying it was a hoax and others mass-purchasing toilet-paper.
Again, stupid.
Most countries ended up in lockdown, all averaging 3 1/2 Months, after which the economic and political pressure forced them to return to normalcy as fast as possible, they took precautions of course, from obligatory masks to travel bans and limiting the amounts of people that could group together.
They really tried you know?
Too bad it was all useless.
Two weeks.
That's all it took for all their plans and ideas and backups to utterly fail. It exploded from an R0 of .7 to an R0 of 25 in just a few days, before exploding again up to an R0 of 43!
"Uncontainable" that's the word they used, from one moment to the next, we lost.
Problem was, it only got stranger after that.
Normally a Virus being able to become the most infectious thing in history within Two weeks would be strange enough, but the fact that people in remote undisturbed areas who had zero contact with the Infected also began to test positive, added to the fact they found no one, absolutely no one with any immunity at all.
The Death-Toll was enormous, reaching over 780 Million people, of course that wasn't the end, since it obviously got stranger.
No one else died, not a single person died after the Toll passed 780, people got sick, but they all recovered, as it was nothing but a strong cold.
This did not go down well with the international community, with people both distraught at the deaths and furious at their governments for letting it happen.
Obviously people came up with many theories as to why the death and Infection stopped so abruptly, from conspiracy theories on a Deep-Government plot to blaming the Chinese, Russians, Koreans, all of Europe, U.S.A, Japanese, Chileans, South Africa, Australia and pretty much everyone else including Aliens, The Aztecs and Lizard-People.
Again a lot of idiots.
Scientifically though, it was prettying much the same shit-show, with wild theories and absurd hypothesis's on what could have stopped the Virus after killing what was almost perfectly 10% of the population.
Through all this though the world attempted to go back to normalcy, reopening businesses, schools & public transportation.
Which is also when the protests started, now these weren't the kind of freedom & equality protests, these didn't protest against injustice & abuse or against oppression & discrimination, these were panicked people demanding answers, after all 10% of the Global population being dead had a massive economic impact, from the mass graves and heath issues with so many dead, to the loss of workers, bosses & sometimes entire businesses.
People had lost loved ones, friends & the fact that 1 in 10 people were now just gone had an effect on the populace.
The Protests quickly become Riots & soon enough violent attacks become commonplace with everything from shopping malls to liquor store's being raided and burned down.
The Greed of Mankind clearer visible even in a time such as this.
It only escalated from there, from countries declaring martial-law to rougher and rougher tactics being used by both the government and the populace.
It became almost movie-like from attacks on government buildings and employees to people being wordlessly arrested inside their homes and charged with Terrorism and other severe crimes which no one could truly prove or disprove.
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"You know Nina, I heard that they set one of the Officers on fire last Friday, they we're throwing Molotov's." he said whilst turning away from her & casually staring at the small group of protesters on the plaza outside.
"Yeah, I heard about that, they get more & more Violent everyday now."
"I just hope my Auntie is okay, she said that they have been deployed a lot more now."
"Oh yeah, she heads the Anti-Terror Taskforce right?"
"Yeah, but she's badass, so I'm sure she's alright."
"AHHHHHHHH HIILFEEEE HILFT MIR!!" A piercing scream and a loud crash outside making them jump.
"Oh Shit." He said as he ran out, black apron whipping around him.
"OH SHIT!" laying eyes on the occurrence outside it was almost Deja Vu, for a woman had caught fire, her whole body was wreathed in flames and every movement of her arms brought forth more and more fire, which seemed to angrily attach itself to whatever she touched, her step would leave blacked spots wherever she stepped and her screams seeming to make the flames reach higher every moment.