welcome to staten island Founded in 1946 as the Communicable Diseases Center and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation in an effort to control malaria following World War II, the Centers for Disease Control eventually broadened their focus to include chronic diseases, disabilities, injury control, workplace hazards, environmental health threats, and terrorism preparedness in an effort to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability. Though their campaigns covered much of the known diseases, contagious and non-contagious alike, there had been little to prepare them for Patient Zero.
Large cities -- Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and even D.C. -- were quarantined in an effort to save as many lives as possible, the potentially infected hunted out of their homes in an effort to weed out the threat, left outside heavily fortified walls to fend for themselves. Inside, survivors who didn't band together were left to their own devices for supplies when even the government couldn't maintain a safe supply of rations, picking up the pieces of their lives while trying to adhere to new protocols in place that consisted of patrolled checkpoints and random screenings to further control possible infection.
Where many have failed, the Staten Island Quarantine Zone in New York City has become the pinnacle of human survival. Though not without trouble both inside their walls, among the population, and the infected outside, survivors looking for sanctuary from the wasteland outside its walls know it to be the safest and most stable of the zones thanks to not only the military presence, but it's population's own efforts to maintain functionality. Still, their lives aren't without trouble and rumor has it, it is only a matter of time before the walls start to crumble. |
