Albatross from My Father

To understand the difference between the first outbreak and the second outbreak,
we need to start with a little history. While Toxoplasma Gondii doesn’t appear in any
remains prior to 3000 B.C., the transition from hunter gather into food producing nations
prepared populations large enough to sustain and slowly spread the parasites across most
to the world’s population.
Historically, densely populated societies with fifteen percent T. Gondii infections
or less were able to maintain stability for a few decades as shown in Ancient
Mesoamerica, Egypt, and Persia. However, each experienced large scale aggressive
behavior upon reaching fifty-percent population infection levels. Though discovered in
1908, the correlation between T. Gondii infections and social violence wasn’t recognized
until well into the next century.
According to studies dated prior to the first outbreak, non-infected men found T.
Gondii infected women significantly more attractive than non-infected women. This
sexual preference combined with self tattooing/piercing trends helped raise the global
infection rate. Even though direct connections between mild to severe psychotic disorders
and T. Gondii were established, mental health care improvements had created
complacency. By the start of outbreak, sixty-three percent of the global population was
predicted to be infected.
Until this point, T. Gondii victims rarely displayed more than bad decision
making. It’s been said one can look at a politician’s domestic/foreign policies and know
whether they were infected. The myth of Capitalism as a large scale T. Gondii effect and
the misconception between it and T. Gondii’s induced resource consumption increase will
be further explained in chapter 3.
While the original incident isn’t known, the catalyst begins with a population
becoming dense enough to perceive necessities as scarce. The “incubation” period prior
to an outbreak can vary between two days and a month, allowing for hormonal
synchronization of local infected populations upon proximity, explaining the spontaneous
global violence within six hours.
Because military/police levels of T. Gondii infection were generally higher
compared to the civilian population, cities/bases were quickly overran. With my family’s
permission, chapter 2 contains my father’s journal describing the eleven months before T.
Gondii’s cancerous effects took hold. After infected body communication stopped and
olfactory degradation occurred, indiscriminate genocide reduced numbers enough for
effective eradication.
I only had the chance to talk to my dad about the subject once when I caught him
without a shirt on. I remember at least a dozen bite scars. I asked if he’d ever seen a
zombie before. He told me that after the infected killed anything not diseased, they ate all
the food; fresh, canned, rotten, still sprouting. Some survivors simply starved. My dad
fried zombie meat.
During the clean up, T. Gondii victims out of range for induced aggression and
immune survivors were quarantined with all non-latent infected individuals released after
antibiotic treatment. This reconstruction period saw food preservative reintroductions and
increased plastics reliance.
Pneumonia incidents were quickly responded to out of relapse fears, but
treatments slowed after T. Gondii was ruled out. The culprit, part of the Mimiviridae
family, was relatively harmless. While exterminating all infected persons had been
proposed due to parasites’ ability to inject their genome into hosts, early T. Gondii tests
found only sterile junk RNA produced.
I don’t know if my dad was among those abused by CDC guards, but he’d always
refused to go into town. I’d been living with my mother a few months before he got sick.
Containing the largest viruses, Mimiviridae is the sole family capable of being
infected by smaller viruses or virophages. After the fractured T. Gondii genome reverse
transcribes within the virus under the required conditions, localized mutation near
instantaneously becomes violently exponential, producing the “explosive” effect for the
first few minutes of infection.
Like any virus, the Human Genome Virus’s purpose is to reproduce. However,
HGV does so by moving directly into the genome instead of eventually being absorbed
into the genome of epidemic survivors. During infection, HGV “randomly” activates and
or deactivates genes, altering cells and cell parameters within the former human self-
ecosystem. In “nature”, cells burst during this phase or soon quickly die from lack of a
functional genome.
Prior to the first outbreak, certain plastics were found capable of filling in DNA
sequence “holes”. While pollution reduction was of priority in reconstruction, a decade of
accelerated food production guaranteed at least minor water contamination. Though
consumption had long been associated with gene interruption, the integration of plastic
molecules through the food chain received relatively little notice.
With the global population susceptible to Mimiviridae and/or T. Gondii, early
containment of the second outbreak would have been impossible had HGV maintained its
ancestral transmission instead of fluid contact.
With most “pocket evolutions” being fatal, cell parameters limited any particular
regional mutation within mutation’s success or failure from affecting the overall
organism’s survivability as shown in cases of “limbs” separating from the main host.
During the “explosive” stage, host nervous systems degraded to the most basic
evolutionary function in serving doubly as both sensory and motor systems during neural
rewiring, explaining initial retardations in movement and reasoning. By the time
separated “limbs” began adhering to other hosts for information communication,
collaboration, increased intelligence, and produced independently evolved titan class
organisms, the military response removed their offensives as a threat.
The myth of the second outbreak as transhuman evolution and its genetic
applications regarding positive eugenics and exocolonization will be further pondered in
chapter 5.
Of no relevance to this book, I spoke to a member of the Lizard Eaters tribe once
while on vacation in Australia. He said his tribe never heard anything.