How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse... or COVID-19
- willchoikim
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min read
It is the year 2020. You are trapped inside as sirens sound in the streets. The hospitals are full, death rates are high, and no one knows what to do. Politics kick in, debates are sparked, but everyone's goal is clear. Survive this crisis out. Sound familiar? If you sent this article back maybe a decade, your past self would probably have thought this was straight out of one of those "Last Kid on Earth" comic books. In this post, we're going to go all-out zombie apocalyptic mode. Stock up on toilet paper, lean back in your hard-backed chair, and get ready for the fantasy adventure of a lifetime, because we're going to a world where zombies dominate everyday life.
It's the 3247, and zombies have invaded the Earth. But they aren't your everyday normal zombie, with no brains and a thirst for blood. No, these are simple, everyday people, stuck with an incurable disease. The politics have kicked in, hospitals are full, and every person that gets infected becomes part of the "walking dead."
We are going to begin our story with a normal teenager. Almost everyone in this story is "normal," if you haven't noticed by now. Our teenager's name is Warren. Just Warren. He lives in a normal house with a normal family. His town is normal, his neighborhood is normal, and his neighbors are normal. Well, all of his neighbors but the Websters, that is. The Websters had been normal too, but one day, the Websters decided to go shopping. One at a time, of course. The two Webster twins had been fine, and so had Mrs.Webster. When Mr.Webster came home, he was a deathly white and had a fishpuke green around his face. The next day, the entire Webster family was diagnosed as sick. When Warren's mother heard, there was immediately a raspberry pie on their doorstep.
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Our story focuses on Warren, not because of him specifically, but because of the difference between him and the rest of the world. Warren had gotten very strong, both inside and outside. His immune system was well trained, and, though he didn't know it, was the key to curing the virus.
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One day, Warren's father went out to get some extra toilet paper (whatever that obsession was). When he came home, he looked exactly like Mr.Webster. Sickly pale and "green around the gills." Warren's mother was diagnosed soon after. However, Warren stayed immune, to everyone's surprise. No one could explain it, especially since the ZOMVID-47 was known to strike worst in kids. As more experiments were done, it was revealed that Warren's immune system was extremely strong, and could fight off this virus. After samples were injected into test mice, it was confirmed. This was the cure!
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Many years later, when Warren was a fully grown, middle-aged man, he remembered that year, when his immune system saved millions. He began to wonder why. Why had it been him? Why was it that he was immune but his parents weren't? Why was it that one cure cured all? He would get the answers soon enough...
To be continued...
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