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==="The Stand" Reference===

:"My mom’s legs swelled up and her teeth started falling out. She got lymphoma and she broke all the mirrors in the house so she wouldn’t see herself. She was so scared of dying, right to the end she was terrified. Every year I have to go for tests. Each year, the week between when I do all the tests and when I get the results I re-read The Stand (I don’t know why, I just always do) and I worry."

Stephen King's novel "The Stand" has some relative ideas to this world of Year Zero. Here is the plot summary:

'''Captain Trips'''

The novel is divided into 3 parts, or books. The first is entitled "Captain Trips" ''and takes place over 19 days, with the death of most of the human population in North America (and presumably the world) following the escape and spread of a human-made biological weapon, a superflu (influenza'') virus known formally as "Project Blue" and colloquially as "Captain Trips." 99.4% of people are susceptible to Captain Trips, and the disease has a mortality rate of 100%. King outlines the total breakdown and destruction of society through ''widespread violence, the failure of martial law to contain the outbreak, and eventually the death of just about everyone''.