Finished reading: Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen 📚

Sobering. Frightening. A very informative book that I think everyone should read. We all need to understand where the world is at in reference to biological warfare.

The details of how a biological war would be handled were fascinating. The government protocols and procedures were very interesting to read about. The chaos of civilian life seemed realistic to me. Basically, the government saves a small group of people, and everyone else is left to die. There is not enough medicine to go around, and no one to administer it.

The epilogue had even scarier information about where biological weapons sit today. We basically have no chance.

What began in Colorado with one person naturally infected with Mother Nature’s pneumonic plague led to eighty-eight people needing antibiotics, according to the CDC. Which brings us to a true horror undergirding this story. Even if the coming pneumonic plague epidemic can be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, there will not be enough antibiotics in the United States to go around.

The federal workforce is in disarray. Employees without a need to know have no idea that Devolution is happening. Those cleared for Devolution have disabled their cell phones so no one tracks their movements. So no one learns they’ve been chosen to live, while millions will be left to die.

The United States does not have a vaccine for plague, for reasons that are complicated.