032 - West's so jittery right now...

[major_west]

BOLLOCKS! My legs itch!

So, everybody's back to normal. Oh. Good. Great. Yeah.

Skinny dipping with-- What an awful ordeal that was. At least it's over now, all's well, and we're back to our proper... selves.

[Private to the Marquis]
You're a bloke again, yeah?

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Infection takes hold of one in under a minute where I'm from.

Besides... I don't-- I didn't get any blood in... I mean, I don't think I did--

Oh, what does it matter? I'm dead. The infection doesn't touch the dead.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

It takes twenty-four hours, so far as I know.

Immunity, however, would mean no reanimation. Typhoid Mary, if you will.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Reanimation?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Yes. Reanimation, once the body has ceased to function in the twenty-third hour.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

There was no reanimation during Infection.

...at least, not with the strain I encountered.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Lucky, lucky you.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Wasn't lucky at all. Everybody died in the end, all the same.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

You ought to thank your God that they didn't come back.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I have no reason to thank any god. If they came back, it just meant we would've died faster. Same result.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

I imagine that your particular strain was much easier to kill off.

Headshots, my young friend, are not so easy as Hollywood would have you believe.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes. If we'd waited for the Infected to starve to death like I'd intended, things would have worked out.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

How reassuring to know they would have eventually died of starvation.

Our strain slowly succumbed to the ravages of time, festering until the brain rotted and ceased to function.

Years and years.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Eventually, yes, after obliterating the population of Britain nearly overnight. How fast did it spread for you?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Before anyone in the West even knew what was happening, millions were infected between China and Romania.

Cape Town succumbed...quite quickly.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Oh. I still don't even know what happened to the rest of the world.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

The rest of the world is in shambles.

If everyone had taken my advice to heart, and followed the plan...

But nevermind. It is...unimportant, in a way.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...what was your plan?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Salvage the human race, not save it; attempting to rescue every last individual wastes time, resources, and manpower.

The models of goverments who chose to attempt to save every living soul was somewhat a blow to moral, if you get my meaning.

In nearly every case, seventy-five to ninety percent of the population became infected within the first month.

Fools.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Hm.

...in my case, there were so few people left that saving all of them save dissenters was the only option.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps things may have reached that point.

Eventually.

I can't say for certain, of course - to my knowledge, the war is still being waged.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

How long has it been going?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

In the West, perhaps six months? Who knows. They can't pinpoint when the infection began, or even where refugees broke through the blockades.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...oh. We barely made it a month.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, your strain took effect within minutes. Imagine what might have happened if it took twenty-four hours - how many people might have escaped the confines of your country while incubating the virus.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...so under your plan, would Britain have been placed under quarantine?