"This is what we know ... "
Livvy has asked me for a copy of my notes, so I'm going to try and assemble them into some kind of order, and write them a little neater. This is the first time I've ever been worried about not reading my own handwriting.
I don't know who the man speaking was, but word went around the crowd that he's from Dorion. That's really close to Thunder Bay.
He says they quarrantined the city 10 days ago, full armed perimeter and all. Everybody in the road got really quiet when he said the army was actually shooting people when they tried to get out or even in. They can't do that! Can they do that? This is Canada! This kind of thing doesn't happen here.
Yes, it's a virus. No, nobody seems to know how it's transmitted, and nobody knows why some people get sick and not others. You just get sick. You run a really high fever (how high is really high?) for a day or two, and then you very quietly expire. All very civilised.
Until he starts talking about what happens next. And I'm sorry but there seems to be a huge gap in my notes, I think I spaced out after he said the second part, because I know, and everybody knows, that once you are dead, you are dead. Full stop. you just don't get a second chance, and you certainly don't get up and start hunting!
No, no, that can't be what he really said, I'm sure I must have misheard him, I thought I was close enough to catch everything. Maybe not.
I remember him saying they were hunting though. Okay, deep breaths. Hunting ... yes, definitely I heard hunting. Hunting for a cure before the virus kills everybody maybe. Oh hell, I feel dizzy. I think I'm going to go and lay down.
Where did Ed go with the boys?
