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"Even e’re lying to them?"
His silence was all the answer I needed
"Please sit," said the ly, I sat The others did the sa
"The first thing you need to understand is that the KA virus, being an, in the sort of easy, lecturing tone that all doctors see the tension in the room, he produced a remote from his pocket and pointed it at the nearest screen The Kellis-Aan to rotate "This tendency created the hybridized virus to begin with And it is what has complicated our cure for the infection"
Shaun frowned "Complicated your search for a cure?"
"No," said the man from the CDC calmly "Complicated our cure" The es that looked soan attacking the larger KA virus, surrounding it before engulfing it entirely "We’ve ed to create several treat the Kellis-Amberlee infection in nine out of ten afflicted"
We all stared at hi slowly, "Then why haven’t you released it?"
"The Kellis-Amberlee virus has beco it kills the iets for every opportunistic infection that coe on the screen reset itself, returning to the single Kellis-A serene and undisturbed "To put it in simpler terms: Kill the virus, kill the population"
"So why don’t you just tell people that?" de Alexander Kellis that people aren’t idiots," suggested the man from the CDC "We cannot say ‘there will never be a cure’ People need hope The hope that someday, Kellis-Amberlee will be banished, and ill be free to resume the lives that we remember"
"Why?" asked Alaric He shook his head slowly "We can live with the virus The reservoir conditions are proof of that We can find a new status quo"
"One where anyone could become a zoht--ht--recover their senses? This nation barely recovered fro when the lines were clear and infection ether as a people if ere told that recovery was an option" I was starting to hate the absolute calm of the man from the CDC’s delivery He continued to watch us coolly "A cure may be impossible, but a solution will be found A strain of the virus that doesn’t generate anomalous reservoir conditions will be discovered, and will be used to standardize the tragically incurable condition that now informs our society No one will ever need to know that a cure is not possible No one will ever need to give up hope"
"No one except for all the people ould have recovered if you’d just failed to shoot them in the head," said Shaun The bitterness in his voice was strong enough to worry h to keep hiotten better"
"Sacrificesin his tone provided the last piece I needed to fully understand what he was saying "You want to infect the entire world with the saoing to need a better distributionto acco exposed the natural way"
For the first ti at hihtly open in shock
Finally, Alaric said, in a hushed tone, "You built the an Rick
"They were never intended to reach the American mainland," said President Ryman
I had heard that n trail; I had heard him make promises he damn well intended to keep I had never heard him deliver a party line with that little sincerity He wasn’t lying He ht as well have been "What happened?" I asked "Was there a leak?"
"No," said Shaun, before anyone else could speak "They let theo They wanted to bury the news cycle, keep what happened in Meht?"
"The storm was an unexpected complication," said the man from the CDC "The carrier mosquitoes were never intended toShaun’s arret later I didn’t think to grab Alaric Neither did Becks Before any of us had a chance to react, the nor hi his hands around the tallerhierously, but didn’t fall
"YOUR COMPLICATION KILLED MY PARENTS!" shouted Alaric, slaain No one moved to pull them apart "THEY WERE IN FLORIDA! YOU KILLED MY FAMILY TO BURY A NEWS CYCLE, BECAUSE YOU COULDN’T READ A FUCKING WEATHER REPORT!"