Living in a science fiction novel

It reminds me of On The Beach, as well. A novel I read years ago, which really upset me!

Yes, I've been comparing it to 28 days later too ........ or The Omega Man when I was driving to work yesterday . Not allowed to go to work today so huge relief in one way .

Does anyone remember 'Survivors' from the 1970s? That was a virus spread from China by air travel where only 1 person in 5,000 survived. A much more deadly virus than this one but otherwise similar in some ways. I remember wondering if such a thing would ever happen.

Yes. That was one scary film ?

I was saying to people in the one in one out queue at the chemist that things have a strange surreal feel of dystopian fiction ( beit written word or film) atm. Everyone said they felt more or less the same way. The one I keep thinking of is the film 28 days later.

Yes I've said it feels like we're living in a science fiction novel. The Day of The Triffids/Corona Virus! It could all be much worse, with most of us dying and the rest wandering round trying to find food and clean water.

Our main hospitals have just stopped all visitors except for a few specific patients.

I was thinking it was more like a dystopian future type novel.

More like Bible times with floods and now pestilence.
Going backwards !

Excellent article in yesterday’s Sunday Times by Tom Holland on the role of epidemics of plague in the fall of both the Athenian and Roman empires, both the centre of a globalised ancient world. There are certainly some parallels with today. Sorry I can’t do a link but we read a paper edition.

I think some areas are much busier than others and the quieter ones are probably prepared and waiting for the arrival of all the new cases. We still don't have an overall huge number of cases country-wide so there will be many quiet areas I guess. One hopes that if hospitalisation is needed it will be in a quiet location.