Bruce was exceptionally worried as he watched children, who should have thrown off a virus like this if it had been a normal flu, begin to die. It brought to mind the great influenza epidemic that hit Europe straight after the first world war and killed more people than the war itself. It had been war that did that then, and war that might have brought something now.
He pulled Mohinder aside, gentle brown eyes concerned, and gestured to one of the little huts slightly off from the others.
"I think we need to get Tony to set up a barrier around one of these huts, and quarantine the sick. Only I should look after them because I've-- uh, got a strong immune system, and they're not going to get me ill."
It was an extreme measure, but the population was already so depleted that they could hardly stand to see a wave of sickness wipe out what they had left. It could be that he worried over nothing and this was just a flu, and those children just susceptible, but he would rather be safe and not need the quarantine, than bury his head in the sand and watch everyone die when it became too late to contain it.
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He pulled Mohinder aside, gentle brown eyes concerned, and gestured to one of the little huts slightly off from the others.
"I think we need to get Tony to set up a barrier around one of these huts, and quarantine the sick. Only I should look after them because I've-- uh, got a strong immune system, and they're not going to get me ill."
It was an extreme measure, but the population was already so depleted that they could hardly stand to see a wave of sickness wipe out what they had left. It could be that he worried over nothing and this was just a flu, and those children just susceptible, but he would rather be safe and not need the quarantine, than bury his head in the sand and watch everyone die when it became too late to contain it.