Kato

Another pandemic spread throughout the world, the fifth one this century. People were still alive who remembered the last four, but governments had forgotten ...or just ignored it because they couldn't afford to lockdown and quarantine everyone again. Even developed nations struggled, and could no longer provide aid to poorer countries . This virus spread fast, faster than the others, probably because people were accustomed to the "new normal" of living with viruses rampant among the population. Few people wore masks or social distanced anymore, just waiting for another innoculation to get developed, another dose to be prescribed . But this one was worse. Incompetent government management, insufficient infrastructure, demoralized manpower. A general population who was sick of listening to it all. Herd immunity worked last pandemic, but failed this time around . Stock markets nosedived again, and the common folk grew desperate....if they didn't didn't take a nosedive with it. Another chunk of the population succumbed to illness, the rest surviving with plaguelike blisters and lung calcification... eventually losing life to the lack of support . Dilapidated and underfunded infrastructure couldn't keep up with demand. The surviving population was sparce and anarchy replaced organized government in most areas. The chaos and disfunction took more lives, some intentionally . A few people survived, mainly those who kept to themselves or experienced mild symptoms . You choose how you survived