nice day today. high 20s, no wind. i shoveled for several hours and cleared the walkways around the house. other than that i read a couple books, and hung out. I also compiled all the data on the outbreak i was albe to put together.

i read through the faxes i found at the clinic. they basically said that a new strain of extremely commuicable "virus of unknown origin" was sweeping unchecked across the country. the virus could be spread by body fluids of any kind, including sweat, saliva and tears. infected subjects were to be quarrantined and hospital personnel were to have no contact with them whatsoever for any reason, including lifesaving measures. Apprently efforts to revive infected subjects in other hospitals had resulted in infected hospital personnel. they re-animated shortly after and spread the infection through bites, and other means. several major hospitals had been completely lost due to lifesaving efforts.

the government had shut down all the major traffic routes in and out of the country and closed the interstate highways to all traffic to prevent the spread of the infection. in later stages of the day of infection they dropped bridges, shot down unresponsive aitcraft and destroyed ships and small watercraft with missiles to prevent the spread. Armed forces manned roadblocks also shot up cars and trucks that refused to stop for searches and used LAW rockets on any cargo vehicles that didnt stop. as the governemtn lost control of areas they attmepted to cordon off the completely infected areas with little effect. The speed at which the virus spread baffled all communicable disease experts, and defied any means of eradication or sterilization. the only effective means of detroying it was heat. 135 degrees farenheight generated 95% mortaility and 170 degrees farenheight generated 99.9% mortaility. 200 degrees created full 100% mortaility in test subjects, but it also killed the human hosts in all testing. the fax didnt say anyhting further on the virus and just gave a bunch of standard viral safety precautions and some beuracratic BS as well. there were also half a dozen pages of gibberish that were faxed from the FBI to the hospital administration office. the gibberish could have been a coded fax sent to the wrong machne or just random gibberish. i have no clue which.

there was a fax i found in the sherriffs office detailing the international efforts to control the virus, it also contained a global SITREP. this significantly out of the ordinary and i can only surmise it was disseminate information as far as possible before the communications system fell aprt. the chinese, indians, pakistanis, russians and the south africans all resorted to the use of tacitcal nuclear weapons to attempt control. al efforts failed and resulted in the deaths of millions of uninfected people. china used several strategic nuclear devices in the rural northern areas of the country to cut off the norther populace (which was heavily infected) from pushing south into the populated areas. Russia detonated one, a 300 megaton plus "super-bomb" in the heart of moscow, which at that time was heavily infected. The government lost most of thier stalitte assets after the EMP from the massive explosion wiped them out. Before one NRO sat died it transmitted two pictures of the moscow crater. They depicted a landscape wiped clean of anything and a viod in the ground that rivaled the grand canyon. the shockwave was felt across the entire planet and the fallout covered the entire asian continet and hte majority of the pacific ocean. Luckily for the US the material used in the bomb were heavier than normal fallout and sank out of the atmosphere more quickly than normal.

Despite that, the enitrety of indo-china, southeast asia, most of ausitrailia, japan and all of southern china were heavily irradiated. the only portion of china to escape was a small section of the northern area where mostly nomadic Tungusic people lived. the fact it survived was that a freak loop in the jetstream pushed 99% of the radioactive materials south and east, covering japan. the kamchatka peninsula survived the radioactivity but was completley infected after a cruise ship beached itself near a military naval port after becoming infected and the captain (in his dying moves) aimed the ship twoards the nearest landmass. All human eminations ceased within eight hours.

According to the fax, besides the south african nuclear efforts, africa itself was a black hole of information. Complete lack of anything. South america degenerated into a mass of warring factions in a matter of hours after the infection began. Littel data was availble but what there was indicated massive infrastructure damage and almost total infection. As of 1800 hours that day, all human eminations ceased. the central american countries fared much the same.

the odd duck out of the bunch was panama. the last ELINT (electronic intelligence) DHS got out there was the defenses were holding and the canal was secured. Infection was holding steady and the infected areas were in the process of being "sterilized", (your guess is as good as mine on how they did that). According to satalite images taken several hours later, security permiter walls were in place around governemtnal buildings and the canal secuirty zone was holding. the last images taken of panama before the DIA bird fell to the russian blasts EMP field was of panamanian troops securing naval facilities on the eastern coast and the atlantic end of the canal with troops securing it.

Alaska and canada with thier naturally colder temperatures saw the virus spread as fast as any other area but not the massive collateral damage that resulted in warmer climates. the population suffered the same masive die off as any other area but the dead heads froze solid within a coule of hours.

the middle east was a massive blur of violence. the entire region dissolved into a writhing orgy of death and destruction. Many US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan loaded onto planes (some hijacked) and headed home. most of these aircraft were shot down upon reaching US airspace due to fear of infection and lack of proper clearnce codes. ground assests were mostly destroyed. Nuclear detonations were detected in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Syria, turkey and Jordan. Reports of Chemical warfare filtered through just before all communications ceased when a large EMP device blanketed the entire region with electrical energy, detroying almost all electronic devices. Satalite photgraphy was minimal over the area and only a few images made it back. those depicted massive infection, burning oil wells, and a huge oil spill that covered a third of the medditerannian.

Militarily the entire planet was wiped out. the russians irradiated the vast majority of thier hemisphere with the massive moscow blast. the naval asests that werent irradiated in the pacific (mostly sub fleets of various nations) sank each other in sub on sub warfare after command and control failed and sub captains moved on their own initative. Most of the atlantic surface assest were recalled by thier home contries and any surviving US assets were commanded to return to Norfolk Naval Station at flank speed. Several altercations between surface craft of various nations operating in the atlantic resulted in more than a dozen ships sunk and the SOSUS nets indicated limited sub warfare. Shortly after the Norfolk recall order a nuclear weapon of unknown origin detonated at the main gate of norfolk. After that, Cheyenne mountain assumed command and control authority and told any surviving surface or subsurface naval assets to report to Guam (it escaped irradiation by a narrow margin and as of the report was 100% infection free) through the panama canal If possible. If not possible the captains were to assume command of thier vessels and "defend the coasts of the United States, and attempt to control the spread of infection at any cost". Shortly thereafter NORAD ceased transmitting.

Mount weather was infected shortly after the beginning of the outbreak by a civilian employee and the Continuity of government plan fell apart. The president never made it to any of the aircraft designated for his use as the infection took over the air base where they were waiting for him before he reached it. Nightwatch crew launched thier aircraft after all ground personnell were infected and attempted to access the aircraft. Air Force One was infected on the ground and shortly thereafter caught fire and exploded on the tarmac. The president escaped mount weather shortly before the facility was sealed and at last report had dissapeared into the virginia mountians near Blumont. It can be assumed that he either had a classified secure location there to hole up in or it was a last ditch panic move by the secret service to aviod infected people.

According to the report at this point all other COG personnell were either missing, infected or dead and command and control ceased to exist. The DHS command center in washington complied the report, transmitted it to all stations and federal offices, and ceased operation. All local DHS offices were to assume local command if possible and to minimize effects of infection. All surviving military forces were to defer command to the local DHS agents in charge unless a officer of Colonel rank or higher was still in command. All federal agencies were to defer authority to the DHS or military command in charge of the local area. Police and private security forces were to follow the orders of thier chiefs or employers respectivly and to do anyhting nessecary to prevent the spread of infection.

At this point the fax degenrated into a mass of random letters, numbers and characters. I assume this hapened due to massive overload of the telecom system. it continued for seven pages, none of which was readble. the last twenty pages of the fax were satalite photos, infection and death estimates and recovery projections. None of it was good. The recovery projections showed that unless a COG certified person could take governmental control within one year of the start of the infection, there was less than a 5% chance the US would survive as a country.

Its been a year. No government. Bye bye USA. Depressing aint it?