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Anne: Herd Immunity

I am playing an extreme scavenger hunt with friends. I remember running across a glass path that lights up to look like lava and rocks. I think I am in a fake dinosaur park. As I am running away from an old friend HP, a Dilophosaurus jumps down from a tree and surprises me. I run away but am stopped by a man in a yellow hazmat suit.


The man grabs my arm and shoves me into a line with others. He says I have been exposed to CoViD-19 and must be quarantined. I am in a line with many others and they are herding us like cattle. There are two big looking stalls that you would see at a farm. All have a large, blue, wooden fence around them. The first looks like a summer camp. There are yellow tents organized around the area and a separate tent to pick out uniforms which look like yellow striped jerseys or T-shirts with a number, running shorts, and tube socks. The guards give us all assigned tents. Each yellow tent has a unit that branches off of it where an individual person sleeps. The second stall is much smaller and dark. The guards inform us that patients who test positive go in there. I peer into the darkness and can only make out what looks like a bunch of pale men wearing blue boxer shorts. I get to my tent and find out that I am rooming with some former coworkers, JG and SW. Michelle is in the tents next to mine and is rooming with former classmates, HP and CB. While this doesn't seem bad, I become concerned that I won't be able to feed my cat at home. I ask a guard if I can call my mom and give her the key. He said I have to notify when she is coming so they can wipe the key down for her. I wander towards the infected stall. Being nosy, I climb in and turn my phone flashlight on. I see people in groups up against each other. They do not seem to notice me but I can tell they are almost zombie-like. One shoots up from a caged in area and yells "they're photophobic!"

One grabs my ankle and I kick it away. They are all running towards me. A woman in a white tanktop falls to the ground and I use her back as leverage to climb back over the gate. They breech the gate and stampede into the camp.

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