Scenario
Contagion
Nobody is coming. Everyone is busy.
It went from a cough in one city to every city in eleven days, and the thing that broke was not the hospitals but the assumption underneath them — that shelves refill, that someone answers, that next week resembles this one.
What kills you
Everything anyone touched before you did.
Rules
- 01The last two weeks of a shortage are the dangerous ones.
- 02You cannot outrun it, only be later than it.
- 03Trust the number, not the feeling.
- 04Do not be the household that needs a pharmacy.
The kit
5 itemsBought before it matters, or not bought at all. There is no third option.
The one instrument that tells you the truth before you feel it.
Not for the disease. For the eleven days when the shelves are the disease.
Household arguments end faster with a number.
Mostly theatre, occasionally not, and cheap enough that the distinction can wait.
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