Virus Z: Beginning of the End, the literary zombie novel by Rodolphus, where zombies are scary again. You are what you eat, but worse, you become what eats you. Savor the terror.
The Zombie novel by Rodolphus, "Virus Z: Beginning of the End," the literary zombie novel, perhaps the best zombie novel ever written, where zombie are scary again. You are what you eat, but worse, you become what eats you. Savor the terror.
The human brain is a convoluted system so complicated that modern science is about as close to understanding it as it is in deciphering the origins of the "big bang," and yet science grasps and coughs into its lily white hands and pleads, trust me, trust me, I know what I'm talking about. We understand everything about the brain and how it functions. Trust us, science says, and trust the government, and trust the big drug companies, we all understand you, we know how to make you happy, and we especially know how to protect you from all those things that go bump in the night. Eat our scientifically produced food, and eat as much meat as possible, and please, talk on the cell phone while you eat your meat, our meat, and get your flu shots, yes, protect your children, jab them, and all will be well, they promise, yes, peace, peace, and peace. But the brain is affected, by the environment, by the filthy skies, by the microwave rays held close to the ear, the brain is affected, and builds itself upon the corrupted meat, meat from sickly animals, and the brain prepares itself, it is opened by science, and sudden destruction comes upon them...
The immune system grows stronger as it battles the natural viruses; however, with the introduction of vaccines, the immune system grows weaker, and weaker, as the body is tricked into thinking it has met and vanquished the viral foe. The truth is, the "flu vaccine" has never had any benefit other than the placebo effect. If you believe in it hard enough, as the governments of the world sell and sell and sell th eidea, just believe in science, and it will save you, just believe, BELIEVE, the religion of vaccine science holding hands with the great monolithic drug companies of the world, and the people believe, and they pay for the shot, or they get the jab for free, and all the while their immune system weakens as the viral invaders become stronger and stronger, and all the while the immune system is being prepeared for the final "hot-button" launch, the true attack upon the world, the unleashing of VIrus Z, and thus, the beginning of the end.
The way is prepared, bit by bit, day by day, with all the myriad habits that create an individual, both nature and nurture. The way is prepared. The brain is softened, the immune system is compromised, and the human body built by corrupted building blocks is like a house without locks, and as zoonotic viruses grow in strength and power, the human body is tricked into accepting, almost lovingly, the new master, the master at the cellular level, that dark day when the gangs of universal viruses sweep in, hijack the natural human cells, and recode, reprogram, and master the new race of worldwide slaves, the human race. The very cells of the immune system, that amazingly genius network of chemical and genetic "great wall" is breached, it turns upon the collective, the massed bunch of cells that is called an individual human, and that vast network of interlocking cells becomes obedient to only one voice, that of the new master.
You are what you eat. At a cellular level, the corrupt, genetically modified food is becoming you, bit by bit, cell by cell, you are becoming the very thing you eat. But worse, prophetically, you will become what eats you. The pattern is in place.
Only twenty years ago the average American consumed an average of 20 pounds of chicken annually. Today, the average American consumes over 75 pounds of chicken each year. And this percentage in the change of diet is across the carnal board. The average American (as well as the average citizen of the world) consumes more pork (pig), beef (cow), and fish, and every other form of meat. And as more meat is consumed, so the angry, ferocious spirit increases in the human breast. The Bible says that "the life is in the blood," and the people cry: "More blood! More blood!" And the appetite increases. And the demand for meat across the world strains the resources, consumingn all the water in the production of meat to eat, so that teeth can strip flesh from bones, and grind down to the marrow to suck out the good blood-producing muck. Zoonotic diseases thus more easily find purchase, as their viral hordes leap nimbly from the flesh of animals, to the flesh of humans that is built upon the stuff of animals.
Pigs are filthy animals to begin with, but when you cram thousands of them together, snout to snout and snout to rectum, and force them to live there for the duration of their short, tormented lives, and you keep them alive with shots of antibiotics and antibiotic-laced feed, and you feed them the dead bodies of chickens, and you feed dead pigs to the chickens as well as dead chickens to the chickens (all of which is considered good and lawful and is a standard practice for building "good protein"), and you fulfill a dark prophecy of rapidly mutating and deadly viruses, and worse, the cannibalistic exchange of brain prions, and soon spongiform designs are formulating in the small chicken brains, and in the brains of the swine, and this remains in the "food" as that brightly packaged and tightly snapped plastic-wrap finds its way to your table, and the sickly animals continue into the bodies of the sickly humans, and you are what you eat, oh yes, you are what you eat. And they shall die by the beasts of the field, is a prophecy you have probably never read.
The culmination of generations of people living closer and closer with animals, becoming more and more like animals, genetically as well as cellularly, and zoonotic diseases leap more easily than ever before and man works hand in hand (so to speak) with the viruses, injecting "weakened" versions of the viruses, and "dead" versions of the viruses, tricking the human immune system into "thinking" it has met and defeated these animal viruses, all the while becoming weaker, and more prone to attack and defeat. And as scientists work in laboratories, seeing if they can combine H1N1 (Swine Flu, originating factory-farmed pig herds) and H5N1 (Avian Influenza, originating in wild fowl and transferred to closely packed "domesticated" birds that are raised for "food") and these recominations are signalled back to the vast and universal flu entity, and the flu viruses learn, all zoonotic viruses learn. And the overmind of influenza culminates in what humannity has worked so long to produce, a new master, a new "god," to join humanity together (both figuratively, and especially literally) in what is known as "Virus Z," and thus is the beginning of the end.
The prion cannot be eradicated with heat, so attempting to rid your food of the deadly prion via the usual route of cooking, and it will be no go, that prion will pass from the host (the animal) into the parasite (the human that preys upon the animal), and the prions proliferate in the human brain, and mad cow is the earliest of the horrors, wherein people stagger about like their host mad cows, and the people froth at the mouth, and go blind, and herk and jerk and stagger in the earliest of zombie forms, and yet they are still alive, these infected humans, they are not truly zombies, oh, not yet.
With the proliferation of cell phone usage, the public has been trained and hypnotized to believe they cannot live without their constant access to mindless babble. With unlimited plans the victim often holds the miniature microwave oven to his or her head for hours at a time, the radiation penetration through a very thin wall of bone (the skull). And just as meat is cooked from the inside out, so is the brain cooked, all the while emitting chemicals of pleasure, like the proverbial frog sitting in soothing warm water that is gradually being heated to a boil. The brain frantically generates new brain cells to replace the cooked brain cells, and lines the dead, cooked-meat cells with biological matter, which eventually becomes clusters of tumors resembling grapes. This is yet another avenue where the human brain is prepared for the eventual new master, the viral overlord, enabling the human to become "one" with all humanity, one part of a throbbing organism, with one mind, and one mission, to eat more meat.
Brain cells battered by radiation from cell phone usage, as well as completely natural radiation emitted from the sun, as well as all the radiation from the environment (microwave ovens, television, all the cell phone usage going on around you 24 hours a day, as well as electric lines running both below and above the ground), the brain is constantly tanned, cooked, turned into leather. But the miraculous brain keeps pumping out new brain cells (especially when alcohol and drug consumption is added to the mix, millions of brain cells may die in a single day, and trillions in the life span of an average citizen), as well as "protective matter" in an attempt to protect the precious brain cells and blood vessels contained within nut of the skull. These cooked cells have no means of escape other than when the body cannibalizes its own foreign matter, and yet another avenue is created for easing the human being into its role in reality, that of the "member of the vast body," a part of humanity that is matter, that is becoming a new form of matter (gray matter).
Nature does not sit still, and even in the higher life forms (such as food, I mean turkey, chicken, cows and pigs and sheep) nature is constantly compensating for new conditions in the environment, and for the past fifty years with the advent of factory-farmed animals, nature rebounds with solutions of its own. As chickens are fed to pigs which are fed to chickens which are often fed to cows for higher intake of protein, so the animal evolves and merges with its food, other animals, and as these animals all cannibalistically share prions and viruses and cellular material, so does nature change, and as this changed form of dead-meat food is consumed by humans, so they too partake of rapid-change evolution, becoming more and more like the chickens and the cows and the pigs, and as all are bombasted with intensely high levels of radiation, so does mutation erupt from all sides, and all is recombined within itself over and over and over again, and thus something entirely new, something entirely outside the realm of nature appear.
Benign natural radiation, as well as harmful man-made radiation surrounds us at every instant of the day, 24 hours a day, bombarding us even at night while we sleep. We are pierced like arrows from all the millions of cell phones blasting away at all hours of the day and night. We are blasted with radiation from solar eruptions that rocket away from the sun during times of sunspots and solar flares, and radiation both damages cells and causes mutation when the cell attempts to rewrite itself like self-repairing sotware and often unintentionally write new code, and that code often proliferates like a computer virus, only this is biological code. Accidents like the collapse of a nuclear reactor in Japan after a tsunami releases vast amount of radiation into the atmosphere and water supply, and this affects resident viruses in the human body, providing more ample opportunity for both mutation and recombination of viral attributes.
Natural viruses, or viruses in the wild, are always prevalent in wild migratory birds, as well as in pigs, both wild and domestic. These viruses are always changing, always adapting to new circumstances, taking advantage of foul weather or poor living conditions, ever looking for new avenues of ingress, or the odd-luck chance of egress to another species. Just as migratory birds may land next to one of ther domestic cousins and infect them with the present virus (and the domestic bird, unhealthy and unnatural, has far less immunal response to the powerful wild virus, and thus is more likely to die). Even without the tampering of mankind, natural viruses are always on the move, ever modifying both through mutation (affected by radiation or natural mistakes in the DNA) and recombination (wherein viruses adapt new changes from other viruses they may bump up against in the wild) and thus new viruses are always emerging, often far more virulent than the ancestors from which they proliferated.
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Rodolphus 1962-1995, prolific writer of dark, angry fiction. Deep and literary, but funny, sarcastic, romantic, sentimental and terrifying. You're never experienced a writer like Rodolphus.
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1962-1995
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J. Rodolphus
©Copyright 1994
J. Rodolphus
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This is the zombie novel that seems too real, a little too probable, and entirely too personal. These are zombies, done right, the way you've always wanted your zombie novel to read. Moment by moment, facing a reality too gruesome to acknowledge, Rodolphus makes it all too palpable, a visceral mind-feast, and "Virus Z" is not for the faint of heart, or stomach. The zombie apocalypse is possibly closer than anyone wishes to admit, but everyone acknowledges the deep sense building in their heart of hearts, that the unthinkable is beginning, even now. Virus Z: Beginning of the End, savor the terror.
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The sun often cycles through various stages of quietude, as well as fierce solar activity, wherein the sun seemingly loses its temper and blasts out great pockets of radioactive energy, often missing the Earth completely, but sometimes bathing the planet in what might be interpreted as a healing blast of sunshine, to cure the planet of the viral fungus that grows here (people). For those that believe in "Intelligent Design," there is far more evidence suggesting that a Divine Designer connected the Earth and its nearest star, the Sun, and that what happens on the Sun affects the Earth, as well as what happens on Earth somehow affects the Sun (an invisible connection that is not evident to modern science, but just as real as the connections between a human brain and liver). In 2011 through 2015 the sun entered an intensely violent phase of stormy activity, bathing the Earth in blast after solar blast.
In March 2011 a Japanese nuclear plant suffered intense damage after a vast undersea earthquake (magnitude 9+) generated a tsunami, causing Level 7 damage to three nuclear reactors, relasing vast amounts of radiation. Unfortunately, an outbreak of H1N1 Swine Flu spread among the dislocated survivors of the tsunami, thus not only did the humans sustain high levels of radiation poisoning, but in turn was the present virus bathed in radiation.
Natural accidents, man-made radiation, sunspots, cell phones, mutation and recombination, and viruses evolve. Nature does not sit still, and even in the higher life forms (such as food, I mean turkey, chicken, cows and pigs and sheep) nature is constantly compensating for new conditions in the environment, and for the past fifty years with the advent of factory-farmed animals, nature rebounds with solutions of its own. As chickens are fed to pigs which are fed to chickens which are often fed to cows for higher intake of protein, so the animal evolves and merges with its food, other animals, and as these animals all cannibalistically share prions and viruses and cellular material, so does nature change, and as this changed form of dead-meat food is consumed by humans, so they too partake of rapid-change evolution, becoming more and more like the chickens and the cows and the pigs, and as all are bombasted with intensely high levels of radiation, so does mutation erupt from all sides, and all is recombined within itself over and over and over again, and thus something entirely new, something entirely outside the realm of nature appear.
Cell phones combine with all the other radiation "noise" surrounding humans constantly. With the proliferation of cell phone usage, the public has been trained and hypnotized to believe they cannot live without their constant access to mindless babble. With unlimited plans the victim often holds the miniature microwave oven to his or her head for hours at a time, the radiation penetration through a very thin wall of bone (the skull). And just as meat is cooked from the inside out, so is the brain cooked, all the while emitting chemicals of pleasure, like the proverbial frog sitting in soothing warm water that is gradually being heated to a boil. The brain frantically generates new brain cells to replace the cooked brain cells, and lines the dead, cooked-meat cells with biological matter, which eventually becomes clusters of tumors resembling grapes. This is yet another avenue where the human brain is prepared for the eventual new master, the viral overlord, enabling the human to become "one" with all humanity, one part of a throbbing organism, with one mind, and one mission, to eat more meat.
Mutation may happen even without any external stimulation such as radiation, because most viruses do not have the built-in "spellcheckers" to proof their regeneration, and so often something new creeps into the mix. Add in the vast amounts of radiation flooding all of our society (from solar flares, cell phones, and nuclear accidents to extensive television watching and computer use), mutation is a definite certainty, in humans and in viruses. And sooner or later, the worse attributes find their way into the gene pool, and the fireworks go off at that point, and deadly pandemics ensue.
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