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The days of no return.
A short story
By Graham Williams

I managed to recharge my iPhone but found nothing. No messages or missed calls, so I threw it away. It's another sunny morning that would have once been enjoyed, but now with the heat of the day, it brings the smell of death all around me.
Many around the World celebrated at the end of last year the berth of there saviour and the new year began, as news filtered threw, what was thought to be yet another flue virus, and little notice was taken life went on as normal. The first wave from Chinaquikly crept around the World as we all that are still alive remember. Europ was quick to respond with many lockdowns, and protective measures put in place that saves thousands of deaths. I can only talk for here and is Island. We had suffered some 10 years of Political driven austerity with cuts of 40% to the NHS and the care system the welfare systems as the benefits, and universal credit was more alike to a weapon than a safety net it once was designed to be. Food banks and housing crises and deep underfunding was the English way of life. Poverty was on the rise, and the ugly face of ideology politics turned its eyes away as congratulated itself on a job well done. The chaos to come was on the second wave of the killer virus. This first wave was nothing compared to what was to come.
England started too late with too little, and Suffren from a state of cuts. The world health organisation screamed Test, Teas, Test at the World. Here in the UK nothing but mistake after mistake, and calamity came into sight, someone in guverment whether to save money or just incompetence did not order and keep up the stocks in government hands Personal protection equipment, and although we had invented the venter had to go begging or them and even had hover manufacturers. The car makes trying to make them in desperation. But still, the government shuffled its feet even talking of herd immunity. The first wave killed 60,00o the unlocking began, to early many said. Europ being so much faster at suppressing the vires began to open up. Here in England at last Testing was beginning and a so-called World betting Phone app was introduced that had a little effect as not many used it, The Testing was a calamity and covered with propaganda and downright lies as the political ass saving went into gear, trying so hard not to let the shit stick to there blanket. We had grafts, and experts as the killing fields of care homes became known and understood, as the guverment propaganda kicked in with we had put a ring around the care of Care homes. The old smoke and mirrors came into play. The Mony tree that we were told did not exist as the cuts cam hard and fast over ten years suddenly had aspired, and was shaken and billions paired.
Then we herd in Europ that the vires had returned with a quickness that shocked all in its path, the governments in Europe fort hard and looked down started once again. This Island, with too little too late attitude, was sill unlocking as it turned out to be true to early the Testing fingers were inaccurate, and the test and track was a complete failure, with lie after lie told about it.
The horror of this second wave was that the vires had mutated leaving all the research useless, it had become stronger and more deadly as it swept over Europe and then reported in Italy and back in, china within weeks. It appeared in England at Heathrow airport after a member of staff went down with it, it was as to a passenger that was exempt from the normal tests that were lacking any way as to governments ineptness as we were sill easing the lockdown, and as to the too little too late guverment it came in with a vengeance. The lockdown came too lat.
Over the following month, hell came to earth as lockdown started and the NHS struggled valiantly losing staff, running out of supplies, the large emergency hospitals became filled and the devestashion of the care homes started again as staffing collapsed. And in time all the services became affected. Trafik disappeared for the streets. Food banks that were before the crises were struggling and being to collapse as to staff becoming infected and delivery staff dwindling, our glorious Guvermebt began to collapse as they had no hiding place. The smoke and mirrors and the past lies became clear as the mirrors brock and the smoke cleared from there eyes and minds and fear began to rain. Food riots began, and the dwindling army had been called I to protect the elite and the supermarkets and food chain. In time the riots ended as the delivery drivers fell victim and the food in the fields and the imports failed and stopped coming . there was no more to loot. The nave had been called in and their ships used as places of safety for the elite, but there were no hiding places to be found nowhere was safe. Many of the army and services went home or to barracks to die. Petrol was no more than the electrics failed and we were in the dark.
We buried our dead in our back gardens or in the fields and foraged for food in the empty houses some filed with dead families that we could not enter. The churches to were full of corpses.
There was no crime no looting as it was pointless as we all realised this was finally the end, we just excepted and watched without being able to help the gangs of children roaming around staving as still, they had a better immunity, but it brought them more misery. I am in the house I was born in, and I can see, and hear the birds singing, I have got used to the smell of decaying flesh. I am so now grateful that I feel unwell today, let this be an end. I am to a week now to wright and soon will become fresh meat to the many cats and dogs and the creatures that will, at last, inherit this World, I think they will use this blue planet well after the last of us have gone, better than us I know.
I have to stop and just look out of my window for a while, please forgive my spelling and grammar its neve been my strong point. The how sill that is as there is no one left to ever read it.

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