Essay about The R-Virus

Submitted By asdaoahsd
Words: 5621
Pages: 23
Open Document
"The R-Virus claims its first victim." I glance at the title, briefly considering clicking it before I pass over it. There will probably be a recap of the whole thing on the front page once it blows over in a few days anyway. Instead I click the link below, an askreddit post titled "Reddit, what little things do you hate the most?". Reading and chuckling to myself, time seems to fly by into the small hours of the night, munching on some chips, only the flickering light of the screen lighting my dark room.
I wake up with a jerk, launching my cat hissing into the air. She was sitting on my chest, pawing at my face, trying to wake me up. She must be hungry. I shake some chip crumbs from my shirt onto the floor and she gives me a dirty look before digging in to the salty snacks. I close the blinds, shielding my tired eyes from the morning light trickling in through the window before I turn back to my computer. I'm should probably get something to eat, but then again... I'm already here. I might aswell just check the front page, it won't take long.
"Omg, what is happening?!" How did that shitty title make the front page? And there's more like it. Cries for help, people asking for information or trying to figure out what is going on. I click a post at random and start reading.
*They're all dead. My friends, my family, my entire city. Corpses are littering the streets. What is going on, reddit?!" The top comment is "Anne frankly I did nazi that coming!", I chuckle, upvote and move on. Below it are hundreds of posts and comments, all saying the same thing. They are all dead.
Skeptical, I glance out the window. Nothing there, just a normal parking lot, just like any other day, but just when I turn back I notice something strange. There are people in the cars, just sitting there. And the cars are not in the right places, half off them are in the middle of the parking lot or crashed into other cars. Upon closer inspection I find more strange things. A woman just lying on her back on the pavement and the silence. The world is completely silent and empty, not a soul moving in the streets.
I grab my phone and feverishly tap the numbers in.
"Come on, mom. Pick up. Pick up. Pick up!" Finally, the gravity of the situation sinks in.
~
"Woah, this is like, totally unreal" -SmokeErryDay420
"How can there still be 20k people on askreddit alone with so many dead? This is weird as fuck." -BobTheBuilder
"My son is not breathing! Is anyone a doctor?! Please, I'm in Chicago." -SuperStar
"LOL, gl finding a doctor in Chicago now, I'm surprised you're not shot yet. Sorry about your son, bro." -Derpinator
"We need to stick together if we're gonna survive this, guys. I think everyone should go to their capital or the nearest big city, maybe we can rebuild if we stick together." -I_MOLEST_SMALL_CHILDREN
"Hey guys, I made a new subreddit, /r/virussurvivors so we can get organised and shit." -TywinIsTheMan
It's too much. This is all too much. I need some air. The door barely opens an inch before being pushed back shut. Strange. I give it another shove and with a great heave I manage to open it, pushing something out of the way. I stumble out into the light and a repugnant smell fills my nostrils like venom. The thing I pushed out of the way was the slack body of my cat loving neighbor, Selma, whose body is decomposing before my very eyes. I crawl back into the apartment and shut the door behind me, bile rising in my throat.
"Shit. Shit!" I hiss to myself. "Pull yourself together." I check the fridge and find I have a few leftovers, but it won't last me long. Sooner or later I'm going to have to head out there to get food.
~
The buzz of my phone startles me at first, but I pick it up.
"Hey, man, you're alive? Have you heard from mom?" My brothers voice is ragged, as if he had been running a marathon.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine, Nick. I tried calling mom, but she didn't pick up. Do you know what's going on? I just woke up and I see this post on
Show More

Related Documents: Essay about The R-Virus

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Essay

Running Head: RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS Respiratory Syncytial Virus Breanna Kennelly Apollo College Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) causes acute respiratory tract infection in patients of all ages and is one of the most popular diseases of childhood. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, which manifests primarily as bronchiolitis and/or viral pneumonia, is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract (LRT) infection in infants and young children. RSV is the most common cause…

Words 1640 - Pages 7

Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Sonic Treatment Essay

OF TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS* BY GERALD OSTER (From the Department of Animal and Plant Patlwlogy of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Primaon, New Jersey) Pxa~ 4 (Received for publication May 15t 1947) INXRODUCTXOI~ Takahashi and Christensen (1) found that the juice of plants suffering from tobacco mosaic virus disease was rendered non-infectious when subjected to intense sonic vibrations. Stanley (2) found that the biological activity of purified tobacco mosaic virus is reduced by sonic…

Words 5503 - Pages 23

Film Analysis: Warm Bodies

interesting insight into the free will of zombies through R, a refreshingly not-so-helpless female love interest in Julie, and uses genre to communicate an empowering message of how teenagers can change society. The rom-zom-com (romantic zombie comedy) diverts from the typical depiction of zombies found in cultural phenomenon like The Walking Dead, World War Z, or Zombieland. Instead of the zombie being a simple corpse merely reanimated by a virus, zombies in Warm Bodies have consciousness, as communicated…

Words 1725 - Pages 7

Biology Homework 4 Essay

General Biology 111 Exam #4 Homework Chapter 12 and 13- Homework 1. Koelreuter’s experiments signaled the beginning of modern genetics. The experiment was hybridizied tobacco plants. 2. Knight was a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, part of the MIT School of Engineering. He crossed true-breeding peas: purple and white flowers; all offspring had purple flowers and the next generation of offspring had both flower colors; more purple than…

Words 1456 - Pages 6

Essay on Unit 7 Assignment K

The Ebola Virus Kimberly A. Murphy SC246- Unit 7 Assignment January 6, 2015 Professor Robert Black The Ebola Virus The Ebola virus which was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in Africa is a deadly and rare disease that is caused by an infection of one of any of the five known strains of the Ebola virus. The genus Ebolavirus belongs in the family Filoviridae, a group of several related viruses that form virions also known as filamentous infectious viral particles and encode their genome…

Words 1275 - Pages 6

Hepatitis B & C Case Study

Name: Tanzania Bowens Causative Agents: Hepatitis B and C Disease Jaundice and Hepatic Cancer Classification of the causative agent: Hepatitis C (HCV) is an enveloped single stranded RNA virus. Hepatitis B (HBV) is an enveloped double stranded DNA virus History: Medical anthropologist Dr. Baurch Blumberg discovered Hepatitis B while trying to understand how genetics affected disease susceptibility. Due to the lack of technology he turned to a different health issue which…

Words 676 - Pages 3

surgical tech Essay

to cure the disease when a person is infected. In the body of the paper these following questions will be mentioned and answered; who gets infected with the virus, why is rabies more common in less developed countries, and how can we protect ourselves against it. I will also talk about the ratio of death worldwide that was caused of this virus, and lastly I will mention the signs and symptoms of the Rhabdovirus/ rabies. Rhabdovirus Growing up in a developing country, stray dogs…

Words 821 - Pages 4

The Prevalence Of HIV/AIDS In Sub-Saharan Africa

immunodeficiency virus or HIV has turned into a global epidemic since its discovery around 1930. HIV effectively destroys our immune system, and directly relates to the course of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS. This virus is believed to have originated from African chimpanzees, and it muted to live within humans, causing HIV. Scientists can only estimate that about when the virus first emerged in the human population. However, they found antibodies in human blood to the virus that had been…

Words 644 - Pages 3

Frank Fenner Research Paper

Frank Fenner This is a biography about the Australian scientist Frank Fenner. He was a virologist and a microbiologist. E A R L Y L I F E : According to Wikipedia, "Fenner was born on December 21, 1914 in Ballarat, Victoria". He then moved to Adelaide in South Australia and attended a school called Rose Park Primary School. He attended the University of Adelaide in 1938 and achieved a degree in medicine and surgery. In 1938, Fenner changed his middle name to John (Frank John Fenner) because of…

Words 212 - Pages 1

Virus: Virus and Functional Viruses Essay

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea.[1] Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants, and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898,[2] about 5,000 viruses have been described in detail,[3] although there are millions of different types.[4] Viruses are found…

Words 1338 - Pages 6