We are so lucky, and most people here are congratulating their ingenuity (such as it was) with still being alive. They are celebrating the massacre at our gates, the lives taken, and taken again (you would be surprised how stubborn Target employee zombies can be. I wish they’d shown such diligence when alive).

No, folks, sorry. We got lucky, and that’s all there is to it. So many others tried and died, and we got lucky.

That’s all there is now. Count on yourself and your loved ones, and leave everyone else behind. Stay away from the rest of humanity. Close your curtains, shut your blinds, and do not interact with people. Do not draw attention to yourself.

Live quietly within your secure bubble and hold out as long as you can.

No one knows how this started or when it might return - and after these past 24 hours, we’re going to have a lot more dead to deal with if it does happen again.

Live and learn, and don’t count on luck.

I am going to bed. I am dreading waking up to this again tomorrow, but the alternative is worse.

Perhaps I’ll get lucky and wake with the sun rather than with the dead.