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with violent behaviors It is important to note that in the original cases of Shelton’s the period of time from a bite to reanimation was a week. Now the time line seems to be 30 minutes from bite to fever and a febrile seizure. Given the change of the time line, it is safe to say that this virus has mutated even further, and it is likely to mutate again.”
    He pulled in another deep breath and continued. "Folks, I've seen the effect of Shelton's disease first hand. I was called to the hospital when the conversions began. I watched a teenage girl reanimate. Her restraints pulled right off of her. Well to be more frank, the skin in her hand ripped off of her in the process. She did not appear to be affected by this. The reanimates do not appear to feel pain. She had lost all speech. Verbal attempts came out as a series of low moan sounds. One of our nurses went to sedate the girl and restart the restraints. Lawrence was a big man and her 98 pound self could not be restrained. The medication did nothing and that girl decimated him. She tore into him and it was over, until Lawrence reanimated as well. I will never unsee this. "
    The conference room erupted at this point. The reporters buzzed in a cacophony of questions. One question rang out the loudest, and was asked in near perfect unity, "Where is the virus at now?"
    The CDC director hesitated for a moment before he responded, weighing the potential impact of what he was about to say and the certain panic that was about to erupt when specific locations were revealed. “The majority of cases are in New York at this time. After the discovery was found the state had issued a travel ban in and out of New York. Unfortunately the impending lock down information was leaked and it appears that those in the early stage of the virus have left the state in either fear or ignorance of the severity of the situation. Smaller clustering of this disease has been noted in Los Angeles and San Francisco extending out to the surrounding areas. Allow me to make it abundantly clear that the likely majority of people that have these symptoms did not come in for medical care believing that they had the flu with a migraine. These unaccounted for people are the most dangerous of all because it may be your neighbor or friend. Containment of Shelton's via activation of quarantines in the various hot zones is not a feasible solution. That possibility was over a long time ago."
    I had reached that moment where no more words could sink in. The director was still speaking but I was deaf to the questions and answers, all my senses overloaded. The reanimates are coming. I curled up to my husband and I cried.

 
    Pseudo Prep
     
    In our house we were fans of the zombie horror genre. Well, I was and I had drug the rest of my family along with me. My husband came on board early. My son, due to his age, was lagging a bit in his zombie aficionado status because of a miserable availability of age appropriate reading materials. We would fill the time waiting for prescriptions by discussing basic survival set up. We would talk about how group living would increase odds of survival as everyone would have their own points of strength.
    It had occurred to me early on that we would have to know what our point of strength was ourselves. My husband was easy as he has tools out the wazoo and quite handy with building things. Working in cabinetry was a great training exercise. He could easily help put together structures and do fixes on things. I was a nurse. I could help with non-zombie related injuries. If people were using tools or if there was a lack of medical help available the average person will find themselves injured. It's like a law or something.
    Over the years of being a nurse things from work ended up coming home with me. In the course of a work day I often had to start a new IV.  I would grab a couple IV start kits and an extra IV cannula from the supply room thinking I would need it if I missed the vein