So much death. So many good innocent people now lost because of our misguided actions. This was never meant to cause such a tragedy, but it shall go down in history as the single most destructive event in the history of man. Maybe this is how Judgment Day was supposed to come. Maybe this is the will of God that we have acted out. Man against man, in a battle for supremacy; Darwin's survival of the fittest at its most extreme. No….. this is no biblical prophecy. We get no pass from the death that we have caused this day. This is the most self-fish act of man that has ever come to pass.Had I known that in my tenure with the CDC would involve being a part of a "Quarantine Group", which in actuality is nothing more than a death squad, I imagine I would not have given so much of my life to this agency. Granted, not every supervisor is required to go through military weapons training, it is necessary for any individual that travels to countries and areas of the United States that have pose a possible threat on a global scale. Just as well, not many individuals that are not a part of the specific training even know of its existence. I myself am no completely sure that this is the first time that the order has been given to use this defense training in such an obviously aggressive manner. Some of my co-worker that have been with the Center a bit longer than I have seem to know the basic drills and nuances by heart and feel. It's as if they've been in the situation before, even though the entire time that I have been here no one has come across and anything more than the typical bookworm/science geek stereotype.It's been a few weeks since the original outbreak shook the CDC to its core, and we are still no better off than we began. We've begun pacifying known regions that have been infected by the modified virus with less than stellar results. Two teams, Bravo and Charlie, have been blacked out for the past forty-eight hours. We have limited information regarding their current situation, except that they reached their respective quarantined zones on schedule and have been out of contact since landing conformation was made. It is believed that the combined efforts of the CDC and the NSA's black-ops groups underestimated the numbers and effectiveness of the virus when the strike force plans were made. To imagine that there are so many of these things that they could overwhelm two incredibly strong mobile groups has me quite worried.There has been some amount of success with this mass quarantine initiative. Though there are still many internet posts being made on numerous websites, most notably in a rural area of North Carolina, we have been able to intercept the majority of them before there is lot of commotion about credibility. This gave us a chance to find the exact area that the survivors are located so that we could secure any individuals that could cause any damage on a national level to our primary objective. The plan that we have for that specific area is multi phase. First, we are to cause a mass power outage that will give our people a chance to get in without being seen. Then we will escort our "guests" to an unknown location for debriefing and decontamination. I hope that this will give us some insight as to the level of threat we are dealing with as well as shed a new light on how we may be able to end this plague once and for all.Now though comes my hardest task, the pacification of my home city. It has been passed own from the top that there has been an outbreak and all are to be decontaminated. In my heart, I know what that means, but I have not yet been able to accept the idea. My group will be leaving soon, so I will end this journal with hope. Hope that the world will forgive its people for causing damage that may never be undone. Hope that my family and friends can find it in their souls and hearts to forgive me for doing what I have to do next. Hope that there will be an end to this without anymore needless bloodshed. Without that hope, I have less than nothing to hold to.Sarah Caullings CDC Q.A Administrator
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