Last of the Living

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5STUART

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY – 11:52pm

And so it begins. The mainstream media has finally woken up to reality.

I ’ ve been following this story since late afternoon. A hospital in Manchester had to close their doors to new admissions. I ’ m not sure why, because there ’ s no information coming out of the place. I presume it ’ s overcrowded. Either that or it ’ s damage limitation, something like that? Maybe they ’ re trying to preserve the place because they know what ’ s coming?

But people kept arriving. More and more people are getting sick, and huge numbers of them are obviously trying to get medical attention, even though from what I can tell, there ’ s nothing any doctor can do for the infected. So crowds have been building up all around the place all evening.

Trouble threatened to break out several times, but it was about four hours ago that it really kicked off. The news cameramen filmed from a distance, not wanting to get close, but long-shots were good enough to show what was happening. The infected who ’ d been brought to the hospital were turning, immediately trying to infect those who were still free from the germ. It was like watching a riot: pockets of sporadic violence breaking out in the midst of this massive crowd of desperate people. It didn ’ t take long for the whole area to be consumed by panic. People were breaking into the hospital, others were breaking out... it was absolute c*****e. The cameraman abandoned his camera and left it filming the chaos – an unbroken long-shot of Manchester tearing itself apart.

Now, hours later, the streets are quieter. There are just infected left out there now. They wander around with their heads bowed, like they ’ re in some kind of trance. Now and then something attracts their attention – someone unaffected, perhaps – and they chase after them in huge numbers.

And now the TV has cut to Downing Street. There ’ s an old guy on screen, talking about the COBRA meeting he ’ s just chaired, and I ’ m thinking, who the hell are you? He ’ s not the Prime Minister or his deputy... I reckon this is some deputy ’ s deputy ’ s deputy, and I reckon he ’ s probably all that ’ s left.

We ’ re well and truly f****d.