There was however a silver lining to the rest of the world turning their back on America and refusing to import any food into the country. We were quick to exploit a recently developed technology named y18 in order to preserve the food that was shipped in long enough so that we could eat it. As it turned out a slight variation of the formula made it possible for it to be used on plant life and other grains so that even those yoga doing vegans who might otherwise have starved to death were able to ride out the food crisis.
This of course was the point at which the "condition" went viral like a Justin Bieber video on Youtube. Since everyone was ingesting the chemical everyone was unknowingly getting sick. Canada and Mexico had long since closed up their borders and on many occasions had shot first and asked questions later about "white skinners" who "accidentally" set foot on the wrong side of the boundary line. In some places in Mexico the police had been profiling citizens of a light complexion and demanded their passports and finger prints. If they were discovered to be American they were quickly quarantined and systematically executed in groups. All the airspace along the U.S. coasts were vigilantly monitored and anyone trying to make a quick escape was dealt with swiftly. Outside of a few rich billionaires and a few thousand crafty individuals who burrowed their way through the underground drug trade tunnels no one was able to escape the country without being killed. Left with the probability of getting sick and eventually becoming zombified or the certainty of imminently being killed most of us elected to live out our remaining existence as happily as possible.
