About the Narrator

My name is Jack Gray, and I did not expect to still be alive, fighting against this scourge with my wife and our son and in our home.

I can't articulate why we've persisted. I have no understanding of our endurance beyond our evolutionary programming, but we have persisted and we have endured and we might yet survive. Indeed, this plague might one day vanish. Then this horror — this absurd apocalypse — will be but a brief chapter in some future historical text, the account of which will no doubt be driven by statistics, sterile language, and clinical tones.

I offer these memoirs as a human supplement to such a possible record.

“Everything society had ever held aloft, everything that we had ever elevated as ecumenically unimpeachable had been burlesque disguised as nobility. Only when everything fell apart, only when we lost everything except the will to survive and to protect those we love, did we realize that we had been adrift and without purpose.” – Jack Gray