Plague Humor: Science Fiction/Horror

When the plague came, we lost most of our doctors before we realized that the plague had a dark sense of humor. No, really! Wear a bio-hazard suit and it went after you twice as hard, three times as hard, calling in all the neighbor pathogens until it got you. The scent of alcohol sanitizers brought it running (the only way they figured that one out was by seeing that winos were dying in the same percentiles as people who were obsessive about washing their hands). In the end, we just...lived with death. We lost other people who refused to see the doctor for simple things like appendicitis, for fear of catching the plague. They may have been half-right, but it isn't a good way to go, either. Our doctors began to camouflage themselves a little more. Home visits were very popular. Boiling water and harsh soap replaced antibacterial foam. Midwives were absolutely, definitely the safest option, even though they still meant that many more women died in childbirth. The plague complications rate in the hospital was higher. So you can see that we were still holding a grudge when we found out that the plague had been engineered that way, as a "survival of the fittest" improvement.


Inspiration: Still photo of a person in a biohazard suit from Season 1, Episode 1 of "Helix."
Story potential: High.
Notes: I didn't think this was all that interesting until I realized it would have to be written from the PoV of a young doctor who has been working in this environment for most of his/her life. Then it became more interesting.