Warnings and Blame

 The groups have now listened to the stories of the survivors Jacob Nyathi and Breckinridge Scott. 

In South Africa, Jacob witnessed the nightmare in a poor neighborhood with "shanties" for housing, meaning shacks, more or less. In this context, people thought that the shooting and panic originated from a gang ruckus, or that the police had come, like they used to during Apartheid times, to shoot blacks. Luckily for Jacob, he was trained in combat and knew how to act without making the situation worse. However, he didn't flee the scene, which should've been the best thing to do, but rather made his way towards the danger because he wanted to save his family. Instead, he got face to face with a zombie, whose face he eventually smashed to goo. He ended up in a hospital because of a gun wound, and was lucky not to be bitten during this time. 

Breckinridge, on the other hand, was a wealthy American, who had made a lot of money on making up products that could or might relieve various ailments or problems. In this case, he had made a vaccine (not he himself, but being the mastermind behind it),  called Phalanx, which was a preventative drug for African rabies. The pandemic wasn't about rabies, but that's what the media was calling it, so that's what he sold, even though the real virus at hand was a zombie-inducive virus, which people didn't know existed, or could exist! He wasn't remorseful in any way, it seems, even though his actions might be seen upon as deeply immoral. First making a lot of money on people's fears, and then shutting himself off from the world by leasing a research facility (Vostok Station) in Antarctica, where no zombies would reach him, due to the cold, but also the sheer distance to anywhere. One does wonder though, how long would one put up with being isolated there, regardless of how much money one has?