In the search of the perfect flesh snack; the density of people and wet markets created the incubation for diseases to evolve into unstoppable strains.
The freedom of travel and packed transportation was of tremendous relief to the dubious virus and its tiny claws. Apparently it favored human lungs and coughed air.
With the trend of the new reports of danger and possible demise, news channels spread the word of hysteria and terror with the only goal of profit, views and lack of ethics.
Those who suffered most were the corporate shops, in the puppeteering profits off the backs of the hysterical masses and disgruntled government; their overcrowded stock now clamped down by hungry consumers.
What gave way to emptiness was rice, canned foods, pasta, beans, sanitizers and… most and foremost: toilet paper. It was as if calamity had struck the sacred rolls, leaving people in heated brawls for every last piece.
Surprisingly, meat wasn’t as favorable, nor other related products. One could wonder if this was set up by vegetarians, as to push their agenda of a meatless world.
Religious fanatics preached the end of times to this new proof of divine intervention.Conspiracists crafted explanations which fit comfort best, grinding blame and aiding in the wobble of distrust.
Health, hygiene, it’s as if people just now realized what’s important. But all will pass and it’d be as if this never happened. A spot in history’s notebooks to the wane of time’s ignorance.
Desolation stretched streets of isolation, entryway to redundant hysteria to memory’s imprint.
