[Dr Backstory]

• October 3, 2016, a hunter by the name of Joshua Haynes kills a whitetail doe with early stage CWDMV. He feeds it to his friends and family generously, completely oblivious that he was feeding them their death.
• They all catch the illness, but it doesn’t start affecting them until about 9 months later, and by then it has spread to many people around the area.
• CWDMV (Chronic Waste Disease Mammal Variant) is highly contagious. Once the first people start showing signs, the government tried to keep under wraps, but it bursts, and about 19 percent of the surrounding states (and into Canada) start showing signs of infection.
• July 14, all infected go into lockdown. This does nothing, many infected are unaware. This also causes a lockdown frenzy, grocery stores and ect. explode, causing a mass of people to be infected, and spreading through the states of Maine to Indiana and as far south as South Carolina. Up to 16% of people in these states are infected.
• By July 21 several other states, including Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Washington, and the Dakotas have up to 9% of infected, 4% with symptoms.
• The cdc developed a “test” to help calm people, knowing that it wouldn’t work. Months before this test is created a lockdown was called in states from Illinois to Louisiana and East, including certain parts of Canada.
• After the third outbreak everything went to shit. This was approximately two years after the first outbreak, and all of the early infected peoples are now dead, including the first cases. Everyone knows there is no cure, and that nothing can save them or stop the disease from spreading.

• CWDMV is highly contagious, quickly spreading between populations, and it can be passed on through the womb. Children with CWDMV are affected at a much faster rate, rare cases survive one year after showing the first symptoms of the disease. Newborns born with the disease only survive about 7 months after birth on average. This is compared to the few months to two years that most adults can survive.
• There is no cure, it is considered a kindness to kill anyone infected.
• Animals can only spread it to other species through bodily fluids or meats, while animals of the same species can spread by contact.
• The people (and animals) infected with CWD are called “the lost”
• Predators become aggressive and lose fear of humans, generally behavioral changes are one of the first signs of CWD
• 1/3 of the u.s population got Covid in 2020
• The only known ways to dispose of CWD are temperatures over 900%, bleach, and lye. Most survivors have hunters funerals for friends and burn all animals with the disease.
• Bigger animals and predators are more resistant to CWD
• The new variant works much faster than others, and symptoms show faster in smaller species typically.
• There is a cure. We have not yet found it.