Last week, our group was excited
about static on the radio. I know that sounds weird but it is true, so you can
imagine our enthusiasm over the Emergency Broadcast System coming back on-line.
Yes, we even popped a bottle of Champagne that was left over from the looting
of the local liquor store. I think it is safe to say that we have turned a
major corner and we can definitely see the downhill slide to the finish line
now. We keep waiting to hear when the recorded voice updates to let us know
where a safe zone is that we can get to.
You know it is funny. Last week I
was wondering if we were ever going to get back to normal. We have not heard
any statistics yet and we don’t know what kind of losses were are looking at.
We certainly don’t know if this thing went global or not.
I remember reading all kinds of
reports – long before all this went down – that humanity’s population explosion
was running out of control and that we were in serious jeopardy of
overpopulating the world to the point where we would no longer have enough
natural resources to support us as a species.
I guess if you want to look at this
from a positive point of view, we may have gained a serious advantage. I know
this is really morbid but stick with me here. Let’s look at the town of
Langley. I would say there is a solid 25% of this town that probably should
have been demolished before the zombie apocalypse. Let’s say you do that. You
bulldoze all the crack shacks, meth labs, and trailer park trash buildings. You
still have 75% of the town with zero population.
If the standing government basically
authorizes a “land rush” that gave us Sooners our name, all that lake front
property could be up for grabs. Even if the expensive stuff goes legit through
sales, you are going to have a hundred (maybe several hundred) homes that
clearly have no owners now. No one should ever be considered homeless again.
What about a major metropolis like
New York City? Where people used to be crammed into apartments, a single
occupant might get a whole floor to themselves. We literally might have a
population now where we have too many houses and not enough people to fill
them. “Overcrowding” and “urban sprawl” might not be terms that we know for a
few generations to come.
And in that regard, do these
survivors of the Kharon Epidemic begin to cluster together? Does every survivor
of this massacre migrate to New York City to live? Or do we all spread out
where it is like Montana and your nearest neighbor is 10 miles down the road?
I can see advantages and
disadvantages both ways. Humanity is social by our very nature. Society is a
communal effort. Is the only way we rebound from this thing is to come
together? Or do we all stay spread out.
I guess this is what we will find
out when we get to the safe zones. Seriously, this could be a total reboot of
society. This could be Humanity 2.0 and we could avoid all the problems and
pitfalls from our first time around.
I don’t want to sound like I am
happy that the zom’poc happened but we could turn this into something positive.
