![]() It is said that if you were not vaccinated then you were a part of the 100% mortality group. ![]() ![]() Even if you were vaccinated as a kid, you still had a high risk of infection from the hemorrhagic smallpox. Lucy has survived the end of the world, hemorrhagic smallpox epidemics, droughts, floods, the S’ans (people infected by the plague that survived) and last, but certainly not least, the Sweepers.Īs a result of the hemorrhagic smallpox epidemic, only one in 1,000,000 survived. Skipping the ever-so-stereotypical escape at the end of the world, Treggiari instead opens with the protagonist Lucy Holloway hysterically laughing over a corpse. This is appropriate for Treggiari’s book due to its very cynical outlook on what the future holds. ![]() In many places, especially the UK (where the author is from), this rhyme is believed to be about the Black Plague. Jo Treggiari’s novel Ashes, Ashes kicks off with the infamous nursery rhyme, “Ring around the roses A pocketful of posies Ashes, ashes We all fall down” ![]()
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