"There ain't much left here worth keeping."
"To be honest, we don't really know what all happened, those politicians and the men on higher pay-grades controlled what information they could but let' be honest here, this is the end of the world and we know where it started. Some people who hands their hands deep in the pie on the world stage spent a lot of money so that they could make a lot of money and when there came about a threat to the drip into their pocket they found a way to cull that threat from the world. Problem was it worked a little 'to well'. I barely know what day it is anymore but I have kept up with the month and the year.
5-2005, somewhere along the border of Virginia.
I've been walking awhile moving form safe zone to safe zone until I can finally say I'm resting easy. It started in Texas, I lived just north of the gulf by about two or-so hours and had made a fairly easy living with my little girl, even after we lost her mom. I hadn't had much plans for leaving up until I lost her too. I won't linger on it suffice it to say that we lived in a highly populated area and the safe zone wasn't really all that safe, not sure how no one ever saw it, but its neither here nor there now. I guess now is as good a time as any to jot down what happened to set all this in motion. I'm not a science or a politics guy but I can shoot and I can fix almost anything you put in front of me, so I'll do the best I can.
Some 10 years ago, maybe a bit longer now, a bunch of people met in the U.N. to address the overpopulation issues we were facing. Some people were saying to limit birth, others saying that went against basic liberties, and some were pushing far more extreme methods of euthanization. To be honest, this is where it'll get complicated for me to explain. Those dicks up on their thrones decided for whatever reason that culling any place that wasn't considered a first world country would be the best way to go. I'm not entirely against killing, I enlisted when I was eighteen, but this wasn't war it was a literal slaughter. We're talking the rich basically said "Fuck it, hit the reset button." Well that went about as well as you'd expect with the public. Riots, push back, blah, blah, blah. Hell even civil war broke out in a few places. Anyway, they stuck to their guns and went with their plan, suppose someone up there had a little swing politically. Now, what they decided to do was a step by step.
1. Create a sophisticated system that would fix in issues that stuck around. (From what I understood it was called SEEDS)
2. Created a short lived bacteria that would infect and kill in vast numbers then die off without much fuss. (I didn't know the name for this thing)
3. Distribute the bacteria and observe and wait.
Suffice it to say, the bacteria evolved and it managed to infect not just the people but certain animals and found a way to multiply much quick than expected. The main problem was the artificial kill switch didn't work as intended after it was unleashed onto the population. From there it took about a decade for it to spread all over the world and any amount of preparation we did wasn't enough. It started for the United states down in the south, specifically Galveston, Texas. We unleashed the apocalypse on ourselves and from what I saw, things weren't going to get better."
This is where we'll begin.
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