By records from the time, at the start of the outbreak there were over 7 billion people on the planet. Right now, there's about 290,000 people alive in my world.
Yeah. My grandma was born just after the Rash first started to spread, and she used to share stories from her parents about how things were then. Apparently a lot of people thought it really was the apocalypse.
There's only five countries left in the Known World, where there used to be hundreds before. And most of the survivors were on an island nation that closed its borders before the infection could get in. Finland only has about 10,000 people today, and it had seven million or so before.
[Hence why Tuuri was so happy to find someone who spoke Finnish.]
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:35 am (UTC)[YEAH. YEAH...]
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:47 am (UTC)[It takes a moment to process those numbers. Doing the mental math... and it's still bad. Thinking about it only makes it sink in more.]
... That's... an event of apocalyptic proportions...
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:54 am (UTC)There's only five countries left in the Known World, where there used to be hundreds before. And most of the survivors were on an island nation that closed its borders before the infection could get in. Finland only has about 10,000 people today, and it had seven million or so before.
[Hence why Tuuri was so happy to find someone who spoke Finnish.]
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Date: 2023-02-26 04:29 pm (UTC)[It's still a lot to wrap one's head around.]
... And you think there's a cure out there?
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Date: 2023-02-26 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:30 pm (UTC)We just...have to actually get all the files back to them.
[Which is a Problem when you get attacked and at least one of your teammates dies.]
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Date: 2023-02-26 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-02-26 07:06 pm (UTC)He nods.]
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Date: 2023-02-26 07:26 pm (UTC)Sorry, that's probably not the best thing to talk about after today. It's just making the mood worse.
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Date: 2023-02-26 07:40 pm (UTC)You're fine.
[Zelgadis is normally the guy who brings down the mood, so like, he can't complain.]
... I hope so, too.