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"This mutation could be adapted to spread through the unvaccinated (thus ensuring its continued survival) while it quickly kills the unvaccinated."

I think you meant to write "vaccinated" for the latter one, but yeah............ I've thought of this at times as well, being the only member of my family that refused the jabs, and hearing of all the "sudden/unexpected" deaths among the vaxed/boosted.

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2032: It became apparent that after the Plague Purges, in which the Vaccinated hunted down all the remaining Unvaccinated in their cities, that they could no longer interact with Nature. They sealed themselves inside their cities, some living just below ground - all dependent on air filtration and water purification to survive. They used to come out to hunt us for sport, but we stopped seeing them for a few years now. A group of us set out to inspect the cities, and we found only a wasteland. Their machinery began to break down, with limited ability to manufacture new filters, engines, and do maintenance outdoors on their technology led them to a slow decline.

We searched New York for life, and found nothing for weeks. Then one day, we came across a white flag poking out of a door. Hesitant, armed, we approached. After checking for booby traps, I volunteered to step inside. Inside I found a glass wall with another door beside it, and light immediately came on - I readied my weapon. "Help!" came a broken voice across the speaker. "Please help us, we're trapped, dying, please help us!"

2033: Technology continued to develop in our small communities, with no money to impede development - or patents, trademarks, copyright to slow down progress - we kept advancing. We made a proposal to the Vaccinated. We could help them, but all early attempts to interact - even with hazmat suits - killed those we met with in hours after exposure to wild elements. Decompression chambers could buy us more time, but the Vaccinated truly were allergic to us. Digital consciousness had been invented a few years back, it had become a way to help heal the trauma's of people exposed to the worse of the last ten years. We could preserve them, digitize them, and upload them into a contained universe. Some of our best programmers rebuilt the world from the year 2000, before all of this really began. The Vaccinated agreed, and we uploaded their digital consciousness to this simulation - this Matrix. Our programmers were really good, we could even let them experience reincarnation, giving birth to children, and so forth. Children became a division of their originally uploaded consciousness. One soul in our real world, could become thousands of personalities inside the Matrix. We felt we did the right thing. Our society was still human though, some people would enter the matrix to interact with Vaccinated human consciousness -- and for a long time this was peaceful.

2050: As time went on, humanity forgot the great trauma done to it. Some returned to hold habits, and the Matrix was hacked and stolen from where we stored it. We do not know what they will do with it.

2075: I'm old now, having lived over 100 years largely thanks to the New World we created. They've called up volunteers to enter the Matrix, and to remind the Vaccinated of who they once were - living free human beings. I'm going into help, after all that happened and that came after - the time of prosperity - I've lived a good life. They're going to upload me soon, and I'll be gone from the real world forever. This is a noble way to go for me.. I hope I can help save those people who turned on us so long ago. It's what God would want me to do.

Amen.

(I've posted this to my own stack, giving credit for your inspiration)

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