Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
> So, using you as fresh blood:
> You go to bed as usual.
> You wake up on a gurney. There are no IVs, electrodes, or anything
> else attached to you. If you wear earplugs, a blindfold, or a t-shirt,
> they've been removed. If you wear a pajama shirt, it's open. Otherwise
> you are just as you were when you went to sleep, and you feel fine.
> Sitting up, you find you're in a room with a CT scanner, and there are
> half a dozen other people asleep on gurneys.
> A clock on the wall (with day/date/time) shows that you've 'overslept'
> about twenty six hours.
> No matter how much you call out, no one comes.
> Throughout the hospital, you find people asleep in beds, on chairs,
> curled up in corners, etc. and you can't rouse them.
[...]
> 1) What are your first thoughts about what happened?
My first thought would be that either some previously unknown disease
had
struck, or some chemical agent was responsible. If the latter, I'd be
afraid
that there had been some sort of deliberate attack.
> 2) What is the first thing you'd do? The second?
I'd look for a radio or TV. If the problem was just a relatively
local
one, then it wouldn't be so bad, and you could probably find out more
about
it from national media. If the problem is worldwide, then obviously it's
much
more serious. If I couldn't get any useful information that way, I'd see
what
was available on websites. Even if they were no longer being updated, the
last
update might be good.
I would then get some clothes and try to make it home. On the way, I
would
check out what other evidence existed of just what had happened, and
probably
pick up some emergency supplies.
Perhaps the next step would be to drive downtown or just up and down
the
interstate, looking for anyone else who had woken up.
> 3) What precautions might you think about to prevent it from happening
> again?
Without more information, very hard to say. Whatever caused it must
have
been omnipresent, so seems hard to avoid.
Kevin
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