Thursday, March 12, 2015

Apocalypse Weird: Immunity by E.E. Giorgi

Oh My God, seriously Ms. Giorgi thanks for the nightmare! She will make you afraid of the flu. I know, I know the flu? It sounds innocuous, but is it really? Sure we had the H1N1 scare and many recall the history of the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918, this is not the same it is completely and utterly different. How so? Imagine it: you get sick with the flu, which as we all know sucks big time. Fast forward a few week and you’re finally feeling better, and BAM! You go nutters, complete psychotic break. You are out of mind, violent, and you go on a murderous rampage even willing to kill the ones you love. The flu that causes this pandemic? Why hello there H7N7, a zoonotic strain that finally crossed over to humans. The questions the scientists must answer are when did it start and what is causing the violence? Oh did I mention the nuclear explosion? Yup complete chaos let the fun begin boys and girls.
The government has set up an area in the desert with scientists to work on answering the questions of when and why, they have managed to keep the labs virus free. Anu is the lead scientist; she carries a lot on her shoulders. Her mother was an important scientist who committed suicide and the stain of her death has weighed heavily Anu all of her life, it is as if she feels the need to make up for what her mother did. Enter David, a computer genius he’s quite laid back, Anu’s polar opposite. David’s job will be to help compute the origin of the virus. Hey what’s a little romance during the apocalypse that is if they can get out of their own way to give it a try. Once the virus hits labs all hell breaks loose, talk about some intense action. Of course I hit that spot at bedtime. Guess who didn’t go to sleep? Needless to say I stayed up all night to finish the book. I then made the mistake of watching a show on Netflix (I watch weird stuff), a TV series called “How to Survive the End of the World”. And what was the first episode? A zoonotic virus that becomes airborne and wipes us out. No not the flu, rabies. So of course there was still the violence and add foaming of the mouth and it was freaky deaky. That night my dreams were night of unicorns and shiny things, oh no. They were filled with people coming down with the flu, going bonkers, zombies foaming at the mouth etc. You get the picture. Yeah I had to sleep with my stuffed monkey. Excellent Story!

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