It's the Z-end: Welcome to the Zombie Apocalypse CHAPTER 4

February 21, 2012 15:23 PM

This morning while I was driving to work I was hearing on the radio that the Venezuelan contingent has already taken off from La Carlota to a Turkish city called Adana, where their camp hospital will be installed. It appears that the Turks are trying to distribute the international health groups in several locations to avoid problems. The region is badly destroyed and Turkish health services seem to be on the verge of collapse. Apparently, in some of the refugee camps in the neighboring countries there are new cases of what they say is a variant of H1N1, although there are media, such as CNN, that speak of Ebola. If that's true, the Turks are really fucked up. No one seems to have taken the precaution of organizing refugee camps, so these have been spread to the four winds at the moment when they were driven from their homes by the Army, both healthy and unhealthy.

The worst part is that groups of refugees have left the country crossing the sea in small fishing boats to Egypt and Libya, fearing that the disease could reach the African continent. Just what they needed....

This subject worries me a lot, I have to go shopping, especially food, I have to buy more food. I also want to buy a few flu shots and while I'm at it I visit my father, who is now his only son here in Venezuela with my sister's departure to the USA.

February 21, 2012 21:23 PM

FAPES reports that three of the WHO cooperating doctors who were evacuated to Rome have died. Apparently it is a very virulent hemorrhagic fever that causes disorientation and deviation in those affected, with abductions of aggressiveness, according to the medical report provided. The Ebola theory seems to be gaining in weight....

February 22nd, 2012 10:21 AM

I write this in a pass between meetings. I'm sitting in the cafétin just outside my office, every time I want to have a coffee I have to go into exile here, to the noise. Fortunately, from this cafétin I can grab a wi-fi connection, so I can download my iPad and surf the internet.

And the news that appears couldn't be more confusing, almost all of them leave you with an intrigue and concern. The situation in Turkey already seems to be totally out of control, just a couple of weeks after the terrorist assault. Martial law seems to have been useless and chaos is spreading across the country. As expected, the Internet blackout ordered by the Turkish president has been absolutely useless, as many of the tricks servers are located in neighboring countries, so the network keeps getting information about what's going on there. Many bloggers and twitter users talk about military patrols in the streets, curfews and even indiscriminate shooting. Some information even cites cases of anthropophagy. I suppose that is because with the chaos that has been cleared up, many areas have been left completely destitute. Of course, none of this is confirmed and the Turkish government denies absolutely everything, communicated after communicated. According to the Turkish Defense Minister, the revolts are the work of terrorists who want to destabilize the government. The truth is that the credibility of the Turkish government has plummeted and the entire international press has reservations about it.

In addition, Turkey has taken security measures around the missile bases. On the other hand, the US government has ordered the repatriation of all its citizens in Turkey. There are reportedly several dead and wounded among them, as many were aid workers of NGOs stationed in Eskisehir. They are arriving in the USA since this morning and on CNN you can see the image of some of them getting off the plane on a stretcher, and looking pretty bad.

U.S. troops are being withdrawn from the Middle East to be moved to the United States, where it is rumored that they could raise the level of terrorist alert to red. Almost all of these troops will go by air with a stopover at the base in Rome, Italy.

February 23nd, 2012 03:21 AM

Last minute: There has been a case of Turkish H1N1, as it is now called, in Northern Morocco and it seems that in Spain as well. The Internet forums are on fire and the conspirators at the end of the world are going crazy writing on their blogs. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but I'm sure that this, in the end, will end up being solved like the first time that the Influenza became known...