"The Virus"

- ELEVEN -

Within a few weeks, he made the final preparations. He sent the antidote out to all countries around the globe. He sent all the vaccines to the affected cities, villages, and hamlets. By the end of May, he announced that they'l start testing the antidote in the fall. Within eight months later, he announced that the vaccine works successfully. It will be available in the USA, England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Canada, India, Australia, Japan, and many other countries, including China.
Within those same nine months, over half of all infected people worldwide have been cured. A lot of the infected people managed to recover from their disease and returned back to life. They resumed working and enjoying themselves. They got married and remarried. They had children. They did everything normal people do. They became citizens of society. But their lives were short. Very soon, their memories of the disease faded away. And then, they forgot who they were. It took nearly three years to regain consciousness from the effects of the virus. In the meantime, they had to learn everything from scratch. They had to study how the virus worked. They needed to study how diseases worked. They had to research new vaccines. They had to create new vaccines. They needed to discover cures for old and rare diseases. They had to invent new vaccines and make more vaccines. And finally, they had to come up with a vaccine to prevent future infections of people who were already infected with the disease.
And so, the scientists and politicians began to work tirelessly to develop a vaccine. They spent countless hours researching and experimenting. They studied every single aspect of the virus. They analysed every single sample of blood. They tested every single test subject. They studied every single symptom. They studied every single symptom until they found the right one. They studied each of them until the vaccine worked perfectly. Only when everything was finished did they realize how much trouble and how much work was involved in creating a vaccine.
By the time that the vaccine was complete, the country's population had stabilized and everyone was beginning to get accustomed to living their everyday lives again. They were starting to feel like normal people once again, despite all the chaos they had endured. It was like they had finally stepped foot inside another world entirely. The infected people had long since disappeared from their world and everyone was looking forward to the future with renewed hope and happiness.
However, as time passed, something strange happened. A few weeks after the initial announcement, another pandemic suddenly broke out amongst the infected. And the entire situation started spiralling out of control once more.

It was not a pretty sight. It was not a beautiful sight. It was hell. Hellish hell to be exact.