Food Truck NIGHTMARE
Food trucks are seen all over major
cities, and are a quick, convenient stop for busy people in a hurry who don’t
take the time to realize how important they could potentially be. Just imagine
if the one thing you took for granted is the one thing that you rely on in
order to survive?? Take the time to expand your imagination and really think
about how your life would be affected in a situation like this…
In a post-apocalyptic world, food
trucks are the only food source after half of the world’s population has been
wiped out by a deadly food virus that was injected into imported food as an act
of terrorism against the United States. It eventually spread to other parts of
the world as people traveled, causing the plan to back-fire. Nobody knows
exactly where the virus came from, but the general vicinity is said to be
Russia. When someone gets infected, they get very feverish and have
uncontrollable bowel movements, and eventually end up dying from the virus
shutting down their system. This usually takes around 1-2 days after becoming
infected. There is no cure for this virus, so any person can see why over half
of the world’s population has been wiped out by such a terribly deadly
epidemic.
Our story will take place in an
area that is typically abundant in just about any food source you could
imagine: New York City. The normally busy, buzzing city full of multiple sights
and sounds is now a deafeningly silent ghost town filled with rats and sickly
people affected by the deadly food virus. The people who have not been affected
live in groups in any area they can find that is safe, as people are now very
greedy with their food and water since their source of food only comes around
once a week. These food trucks come from the supposed “safe-land,” which nobody
has ever seen, except for the people who drive the food trucks. It is rumored
that this top secret facility manufactures food that has a special chemical in
it that counteracts the deadly food virus in all other food. There are multiple
facilities where the food is delivered to in other parts of the country in more
populated areas. The main facility, however, is in New York City and the
remaining residents get the freshest food. People congregate to the nearest
“food stop” where the trucks will deliver a week’s supply of food and jugs of
contaminant-free water, which is typically enough for one meal and one gallon
of water per day, per person in a living group. These meals usually consist of
non-perishable items that will last at least a week until the next delivery
comes. Before receiving food, each person must be scanned with a special
eye-scanner that the deliveryman or woman must use to determine whether or not
they are infected with the virus. If a person is infected, they are either
taken and quarantined by separate vehicle if there are children around or shot
on the spot so that they don’t infect anyone else. It seems harsh, but the
belief in this post-apocalyptic world is to protect the greater good so that
the entire human population is not wiped out. The people who are not infected
must protect themselves from those who are by keeping their food well hidden
and protected when it is not being guarded, because they cannot take a risk on
anyone else getting infected. Nobody is 100% safe, but people will do whatever
it takes to try their best to protect themselves and their loved ones from
being inflicted with this devastating virus. However, what will you do if the
only source of non-contaminated food and water becomes too dangerous to
consume?
No matter how many precautions are
made, nobody can completely prevent a virus from spreading. In this case, the
main manufacturing facility of food and water became contaminated from
potentially one of the workers carrying a virus on their hazard suits, which
prevents them from catching the virus. Many precautions are made to assure that
the food and water being delivered, as well as the men and women delivering,
are safe. Upon arriving back at the facility after making their deliveries, the
driver must stop the food truck in front of the gate where people in hazard
suits can come and completely disinfect the entire vehicle. The driver then
steps into a small room where they remove all of their clothes and step into a
decontamination shower as their clothes are also decontaminated and replaced
with new clothes. After that, they put on their clothes and head into the
living quarters of the facility where they and their families reside, assuring
the safest, cleanest place to reside. Somehow, not everything was completely
decontaminated, and the virus made its way to the main part of the facility
where all of the food is carefully made, and contaminated everything. Since the
main facility did not catch the contamination in time, food delivered to the
other facilities around the country became contaminated as well, causing the
food truck manufacturing company to shut down. People were suddenly becoming
sick at a rapid rate, wiping out another huge part of the population. Once the
remaining people who didn’t eat the contaminated food discovered that their
only source of food was gone, it was left to them to figure out how to survive….
If the situation was thought to not
get any worse, the residents of New York city and the entire United States were
dead wrong. Since there is not a lot of wildlife and forests in or around New
York city, finding food was a chore.
The only salvageable food left was canned goods in abandoned grocery
stores, which people immediately thought to go for, causing the supply to run
dry very quickly. Once that ran out, it was up to people to hunt or find their
own food. Since the water carries the food- and water-borne virus, all water
life is contaminated as well, causing it to smell terrible from all of the
dead, rotting fish in the water. The only source of fresh water is the rain
that gets caught in buckets, which hopefully neighboring people won’t steal
from you when it isn’t being guarded. The only edible food available in the
entire city is whatever the virus did not get spread to, such as birds or any
animals, anything growing on trees or from the ground, or food that other
people have. The greediness has increased, which means all of your belongings
must be guarded at all times. If not, be prepared to have everything stolen
from you while you have your back turned. Eventually, the virus spreads to
wildlife from them eating contaminated food, causing them to die off. Winter
comes, and the trees and anything else growing dies, leaving nearly nothing to
consume, causing the almost the entire population of the United States to die.
The terrorists have won, or at least what is left of them.
Living in a world with little to no
food is devastating. Food trucks may be a convenient quick stop for one to get
food that is often taken for granted, but what if one day it is the only source
of food. After that, what if your only source of food is gone? What if???
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