This would never happen in the United States, not unlike one of the Third World Countries. We are a fundamentally Capitalist Country that can be used against us in a twisted way. Testing was being done on prisoners who were disposable and didn’t have a life anyway. Testing for profit is unknown to the citizens of California until it gets out of hand. An escape is planned to save their own lives due to the testing. Only then did people find out the truth, but conveniently blamed the Virus escaping on the prisoners’ making drugs. It was too late as the virus was airborne and easily caught. No antiviruses were given as many people entered the hospitals trying not to die. The government got involved thinking they had the solution by pulling people out of their homes and sending them into a camp called “Paradise”. It was later called a death camp. After the prisoners escaped Folsom prison, some caught up with old friends and families in the Sacramento Valley. They hid, trying not to get caught, and put back into the pen. Most of them realized things had changed. Things weren’t the same as they remembered. With everyone lost and confused, groups started to form. The gangs that used to fight pulled together to help the population that mostly ended up in one of the camps. Children were separated due to their high tolerance to the virus. People felt these were the end days.
Megan Daley is passionate about children's literature and sharing it with young and old alike. In daylight hours, Megan is a teacher librarian at St Aidan's Anglican Girls School in Queensland and was recently awarded the Queensland Teacher Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association of Queensland, as well as the national Dromken Librarians Award, presented by the State Library of Victoria.
A former national vice-president of the Children's Book Council of Australia, she is currently on the Queensland chapter of the board of the Australian Children's Laureate and on the Publications Committee of the National Library of Australia. She blogs about all things literary, library and tech. She also thinks sleep is overrated.