WWZ fanfic: Operation DRYPOOL and the fall of Britain
Jun 7, 2019 19:45:53 GMT
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Post by James G on Jun 7, 2019 19:45:53 GMT
XXXIV
The outbreak of the Undead at Van Nuys in California had been dealt with quickly by the Americans. They’d done what Britain had and put down an initial outbreak with speed before it could spread. This would mirror what happened in the UK and give the United States false hope that it could deal with further instances. Across the country, the wide media coverage of the ‘Zombies in California’ led to a significant spike in gun sales. It had been seen after school shootings & massacres like those where in the days afterwards when political battles raged over gun control, sales would increase across the nation. People would buy guns then in case Washington decided to ban them. These were usually people who already owned many guns too: rarely was it first time buyers acting this way. Following Van Nuys, a lot of guns were purchased with people interviewed by the media afterwards talking about why they brought them and sometimes showing off their collection of other weapons as well.
Not covering the rush to buy more guns but staying in the San Fernando Valley was that journalist who’d long been following the story of concern about the anti-Rabies drug Phalanx. Amy Cooper was with Fox News and at odds with several figures within the network over her behaviour at demanding to be allowed to air this story. There was talk about the network executives of firing her soon enough. For the time being though, she remained outside the cordon which remained around Van Nuys. The outbreak was over and others had left. Amy stayed though, talking off-camera to multiple people as she sought out information.
There was a senior police officer and a California National Guard officer who both spoke off-the-record to her providing more details of what the Undead had done than Washington would tell either the media nor the public. There were civilians too who added further first-hand accounts. What Amy was interested in most though was the issue with Phalanx. Its developer – someone she’d previously met with and been threatened by – had made an extraordinary sum of money with his vaccine against African Rabies. Breck Scott was rich beyond anyone’s wildest dreams as he’d sold supposed protection to the nation and then expanded that across many other countries too. People in Van Nuys with the Undead outside of their houses had thought that Phalanx would save them. They’d died when it hadn’t.
Amy told the American public that Phalanx was a lie during a live broadcast.
She wasn’t meant to. Amy wouldn’t have been allowed to broadcast on Fox News that evening had her bosses knew what she was going to say. She went off-script though and told the truth. From back in New York, the interview was suddenly cut short. In the studios there the presenters pretended it didn’t happen.
Fired that night, Amy felt that she had done what needed to be done. She wouldn’t regret it, even after all that would happen afterwards.
Fox News was broadcast in the UK. It had regular viewers in the country who might not have been anywhere near as numerous as those in the United States, but it was still watched this side of the ocean. Amy’s broadcast from California came in the early hours of the morning – four a.m. – in Britain and thus wasn’t widely seen even among regular viewers. It was seen by some though, those who didn’t know what to make of it.
COBRA was meeting in near continuous session. What happened with the Phalanx revelation was discussed among them. They agreed to make sure that no further information about that made it into the UK media. Like so many other ongoing matters, the perfectly legal but draconian reporting restrictions were extended to any discussions about Phalanx. The fact that that drug was effectively a placebo was known among the British Government. It hadn’t been funded on the NHS despite the efforts of lobbyists working for American Big Pharma to try to do so. It was being taken privately by many people who paid for it – more fool them – and there had also been many sailors & aircrews who engaged in what the international trade Britain was still doing who were also subscribed that drug to allow them to enter other countries. The Government’s official public position had always been that the drug needed proper testing; moreover, there was only the very slightest danger to the British public of any infection by African Rabies too.
They moved on from the subject soon enough. There was plenty of other important matters to discuss… such as the Undead active in three nationwide outbreaks. This was a mistake. Amy’s revelations about Phalanx in the United States would set something big off there with the public and that would eventually cross the Atlantic. Yet, that was for another day.
Today, Britons were being killed across the country by the Undead with the government doing its very best to mess up the response to that.
The outbreak of the Undead at Van Nuys in California had been dealt with quickly by the Americans. They’d done what Britain had and put down an initial outbreak with speed before it could spread. This would mirror what happened in the UK and give the United States false hope that it could deal with further instances. Across the country, the wide media coverage of the ‘Zombies in California’ led to a significant spike in gun sales. It had been seen after school shootings & massacres like those where in the days afterwards when political battles raged over gun control, sales would increase across the nation. People would buy guns then in case Washington decided to ban them. These were usually people who already owned many guns too: rarely was it first time buyers acting this way. Following Van Nuys, a lot of guns were purchased with people interviewed by the media afterwards talking about why they brought them and sometimes showing off their collection of other weapons as well.
Not covering the rush to buy more guns but staying in the San Fernando Valley was that journalist who’d long been following the story of concern about the anti-Rabies drug Phalanx. Amy Cooper was with Fox News and at odds with several figures within the network over her behaviour at demanding to be allowed to air this story. There was talk about the network executives of firing her soon enough. For the time being though, she remained outside the cordon which remained around Van Nuys. The outbreak was over and others had left. Amy stayed though, talking off-camera to multiple people as she sought out information.
There was a senior police officer and a California National Guard officer who both spoke off-the-record to her providing more details of what the Undead had done than Washington would tell either the media nor the public. There were civilians too who added further first-hand accounts. What Amy was interested in most though was the issue with Phalanx. Its developer – someone she’d previously met with and been threatened by – had made an extraordinary sum of money with his vaccine against African Rabies. Breck Scott was rich beyond anyone’s wildest dreams as he’d sold supposed protection to the nation and then expanded that across many other countries too. People in Van Nuys with the Undead outside of their houses had thought that Phalanx would save them. They’d died when it hadn’t.
Amy told the American public that Phalanx was a lie during a live broadcast.
She wasn’t meant to. Amy wouldn’t have been allowed to broadcast on Fox News that evening had her bosses knew what she was going to say. She went off-script though and told the truth. From back in New York, the interview was suddenly cut short. In the studios there the presenters pretended it didn’t happen.
Fired that night, Amy felt that she had done what needed to be done. She wouldn’t regret it, even after all that would happen afterwards.
Fox News was broadcast in the UK. It had regular viewers in the country who might not have been anywhere near as numerous as those in the United States, but it was still watched this side of the ocean. Amy’s broadcast from California came in the early hours of the morning – four a.m. – in Britain and thus wasn’t widely seen even among regular viewers. It was seen by some though, those who didn’t know what to make of it.
COBRA was meeting in near continuous session. What happened with the Phalanx revelation was discussed among them. They agreed to make sure that no further information about that made it into the UK media. Like so many other ongoing matters, the perfectly legal but draconian reporting restrictions were extended to any discussions about Phalanx. The fact that that drug was effectively a placebo was known among the British Government. It hadn’t been funded on the NHS despite the efforts of lobbyists working for American Big Pharma to try to do so. It was being taken privately by many people who paid for it – more fool them – and there had also been many sailors & aircrews who engaged in what the international trade Britain was still doing who were also subscribed that drug to allow them to enter other countries. The Government’s official public position had always been that the drug needed proper testing; moreover, there was only the very slightest danger to the British public of any infection by African Rabies too.
They moved on from the subject soon enough. There was plenty of other important matters to discuss… such as the Undead active in three nationwide outbreaks. This was a mistake. Amy’s revelations about Phalanx in the United States would set something big off there with the public and that would eventually cross the Atlantic. Yet, that was for another day.
Today, Britons were being killed across the country by the Undead with the government doing its very best to mess up the response to that.