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Photorealistic image of a desolate, abandoned street lined with decaying houses, overgrown vegetation, and old cars, under a gloomy sky. A sign on the right reads "JIM SACKVILLE'S".

Photorealistic image of a desolate, abandoned street lined with decaying houses, overgrown vegetation, and old cars, under a gloomy sky. A sign on the right reads "JIM SACKVILLE'S".

As we drive through Angowrie, the silence envelops us. It casts a looming shadow of doom, houses abandoned, windows shattered and nature slowly reclaiming its territory, creeping back to places once controlled by people, as we were met with this unsettling sight. Many questions rushed to our head with the most prominent one of them all being, how did such a flourishing, charming and welcoming town become such a dystopian wasteland? Well the answer lies not within the virus itself but what followed it: the collapse of government control - as authority weakened communities like Angowrie were left completely stranded, forced to survive without support and then ultimately spiraled into disorder. One of the most telling signs of a stateless society is the collapse of trust which becomes painfully clear through the waves of looting which plagued Angowrie and hundreds of other towns just like it. It, as survivor Ray recalls "the day Jim Sackvilles supermarket was plundered was the day the fear dawned on me that nothing would ever be the same ever again” It was in the cruical early moments of the virus that the herd mentality took over, people stopped thinking for themselves and just followed the crowd, doing what everyone else was doing without asking if it was right or wrong, it showed that fear and desperation is more contagious than any virus ever will be. And suddenly survival was required and kindness was optional and it was from that shift in mind set that angowrie descended Mehr sehen