As I begin to write my new novel, a first foray into a dystopian world, I came across a long historical essay entitled: A World Gone Wrong. Here’s a brief snippet from that essay. Remember the text I discovered is part of a top secret study that is still under government embargo, so please do not reveal its content to anyone. Thanks.
Ten years ago, there was a bout of an incurable illnesses that attacked people’s lungs, quickly strangling the life out of them. Within a month it had killed off nearly half the world’s population, most of whom lived in dense urban conglomerations. Governments were at a loss what to do. The size of the epidemic went way beyond the capacity of modern medical, police and military systems, to handle the crisis, let alone contain the epidemic…