I had checked online on the NPDCO’s website and gotten the latest information about the curfew, so I knew not to leave the house earlier than eight. At ten after eight I strolled out to the car like this was any other morning. Like I hadn’t been traumatized by all the latest news when I’d gone online this morning.Of course, the truth was, I was freaked out. And it wasn’t just the victims of Microbe EN731 that had me worried. The virus hadn’t reached Dallas yet, but they were evacuating Houston. A mere four or five hours south of here, things were bad enough that they were evacuating the city. Not just any city, either. Houston was huge. It would take three days, at least, to get everyone out. If they could convince everyone to go. The last time they’d evacuated for a hurricane, there’d been cars stranded on the highways for days.The fear and paranoia were spreading faster than the virus. Homicide rates in Dallas were more than twenty times higher than they’d been just a week ago.
