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Josh said, "Okay, very quickly Here’s e know For some of you this will be repeat information, just bear within Comic Sans font It said, ORIGINS?
"We don’t knohere the infection originated from We may never know Since it behaves in a way that’s different fro known to science, I prefer to think it’s en was specifically engineered to ‘zoical iatherer days Zo about that in a book Fredo…"
Next slide This one had a line graph, starting at zero and spiking rapidly upward The left-to-right axis was ticking off the days since the outbreak
"OGZA estimates are that the infection rate within the borders of [Undisclosed] was at twenty percent as of last Wednesday It exceeded fifty percent yesterday, and will be at ninety to one hundred percent within forty-eight hours"
Gasps froht, that couldn’t be true, could it? And as OGZA?
Fredo hit the next slide It said, WHO IS OGZA?
"For those of you who haven’t been to previousthis story in the roup of resistance fighters have for secure locations where they can hole up as the situation deteriorates They call theht up his final slide, which said, SO WHAT ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT?
"One final point I want to make, and I leave this for last because it’s what you need to keep with you when you watch TV tonight An anonyovernment has leaked a series of e-mails between the Centers for Disease Control and the task force for Rapid Exotic Pathogen Eradication slash Research, outlining what they call Operation Leppard Froht hours of the outbreak--based on autopsies of infected dead--that the physiological changes caused by the infection are radical … and irreversible"
Another "let that sink in" pause froe--the bacteria, virus, parasite or whatever it is--the subject’s entire nervous syste to be done for the infected Froical conclusion that quarantine is not separating the infected so that theyseparated--and concentrated in one location--so that they can be wiped out in one step Just like a an infected lioal, as of now, is to do whatever we can to help them accomplish this"
The room erupted in cheers
8 Hours Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asylu room he’d ever been in--and in Undisclosed, that was really saying so old Ffirth TB asylu that had been old, abandoned and almost certainly haunted since his father was a kid Inside, the place was evenboards in the old gy a rippling floor that, if painted blue, would look like the surface of the ocean on a windy day
He didn’t see Amy there but he wouldn’t have even if she were--there were partitions with curtains set up to divide the gyuys in those spooky Darth Vader space suits were rolling a cart fro blood samples fro for He wondered what his blood-alcohol level was
John’s hands were still bound behind hi a standard checklist read off a clipboard ("Are you having hallucinations? Any unexplained urges orany unusual sores or lesions in the mouth area?") but they ca hi how he knew Dave and Amy, and so on Finally they asked him if he knew Aet dumped over his head
They don’t have her
On the fourth visit, they brought a white space suit that contained a suy who John instantly disliked
"Hello there, John I’m Dr Bob Tennet How are we today?"
"I know you so, but I know your friend David"
"Right, right, you’re his crossbow therapist"
Tennet grabbed a rolling office chair and dragged it over He sat on it backward, straddling it so that he could cross his arms over the back in a casual, folksy hich looked absurd in his huge, bulky hazardous-materials suit He pulled out a device with a series of clips dangling at the end of thin wires
"Your left hand, please"
Tennet clipped the five clips to John’s fingers At the other end of the wires was a box with a soing to give hi questions honestly They ive us vital insight into your condition"
John said, "Whatever Wait, you said ‘know’ David, present tense Is Dave still … around?"
"We’ll explore that in ajust as hard as we can to give a clean bill of health to the people who don’t need our help so we can devote as much time and attention as we can to the ones who do"
"And by help, you oddamned prison ca here is unethical"