Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35752811-20180608135038/@comment-9041013-20180609105116

DrBobSmith wrote: You are inconsistent with dates. Is it the 24th or 20th century?

If it is more than a couple of decades after the initial outbreak then we would have evolved resistance. A few people would be resistant. In Europe it may have been one in four. Perhaps one native American in sixteen had enough natural resistance to smallpox. They survived so they passed the trait on. In three centuries the survivors would mostly be immune.

Forget finding a wood fired locomotive outside of a museum. Even steam powered coal locomotives were discontinued like 50 years ago. Ehhh... The Plague in Europe did not go away for about 200 years, so resistence was much slower to build than you think. Now imagine that a plague just wrecks everything again, resistence would take just as long to build.

BlueQuartz28 wrote: Hi BloodySpghtti,

I appreciate the feedback, but I thought I explain about the events leading up to the plague. Some people speculate that some extremists broke into a lab within the United States and stole vials containing agressive strains of deadly diseases. I have a feeling that the United States houses a few of the most deadly diseases on Earth. The current antibodies would not be able to destroy the agressive strain, so some 50 years later, doctors and researchers were able to create a new antibody.

As for the train, I thought a train would be ideal of transporting survivors to big cities. As for the doctors and other people, such as Zoe, they have their own quarters, but maybe you're right, there needs to be more conflict between Zoe's mother and the other doctors.

Anyway, thanks! I did not mean to make the opening to a single paragraph.