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Dystopian future: this or a future virus has no vaccine. But some survivors develop long-term resistance. Green zones become the new aspirational geographies, but don’t want to carry health costs for rest. Frequent antibody testing. If your resistance fades you get kicked out.
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Long-term greenies breed and expand. Red zones live isolationist lives based on elaborate distancing cultures. Masks come to be decorated in coded ways with elaborate indications of affiliations, history of infections etc. Slowly die out. Sounds like bad scifi but... maybe? 🤔
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The overlap between "survivors developing long-term resistance" and "no vaccine is possible" is probably very small, based on my full month's worth of casual virology learnings.
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You need a theme about how the immune are taking advantage of the vulnerable masses. Class is too easy, maybe the Green are infertile without interbreeding, and children are 50/50? Family hiding a Red kid? Or if secret split twins are the protagonists the YA will write itself.
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red zones-alike: what if vory v zakone occupied the chernobyl exclusion zone? green zones-alike: a reincarnation of the YFZ ranch breeds a generation of polygamous tiktok stars