Shutdown

The world has come to a halt. We knew it would, or at least a collective few people did. A collective few expected it sooner, and a collective few expected it later, but we expected it all the same. First, the virus, or for a better word, pandemic, man-made by China’s finest, and then millions of deaths. But finally, someone over there in those distant lands shut us down as if unmercifully stopping a failing heartbeat. Nothing works anymore.... What will we do.... How will it be?

China created and released a deadly virus on the world. For a couple of years, that was all the media reported on: how many people were dying, how many countries were suffering because of it... and then a vaccine was created to fight it, and so many refused it until the very end, when it was too late to accept it. One virus after another came trailing through every household. Then it happened. Our grid shutdown. It was sudden, and it was permanent. Now, no one cares to take a life. Law no longer exists. We must look for food, for safety, for water, and for peace.