The flu spreads,
Embargoes and quarantines are put in place. Travel to Mexico and the US is banned, then from the Western Hemishpere.
Trade goods are banned from those countries.
The casualty rate in Mexico due to corruption skyrockets and the have nots who get it have a 90% fatality rate.
Human smuggling north to the US becomes a lucratvie proposition as the embagro sends their faltering economy further down and the flu or the fear of the flu has people panicing and trying to flee.
Sadly, as they flee, they bring the flu with them casuing it to spread throughout the region, prmarily the US but also Canada.
The areas on the smuggling route leave swaths of sickness all the way into Canada.
In a backlash the Guatamala sends troops to the border and anyone attempting to flee Mexico to the south is shot.
The US the border guards are decimated with the flu as are most border towns.
The civilian population has a backlash on ALL hispanics, and a few lynchings and shootings occur. Some riots break out. In the end troops are on the border, as well as patrolling the towns along the border. National Guard is used to control the curfews and quarantines that have been enplaced. Troos go door to door in the cities that are heavilly hit after reports of entire families being found dead and going unoticed for weeks.
Forced evacuations continue.
As the flu speads it mutates so the medicines that they do develope are only capable of handling the last round that has already passed. By the time the flu returns it mutates once more.
Most borders close down and are militarized.
The economy in general suffers as trade is paralized and the work force is crippled throug illness or just fear. Even basic services are reduced and before long even basic foods are gone, the government is strepping in issuing food.
Refugees are caught trying to flee regions and are sent back by military keeping them in their cities. Countries governments are crumbing over the pressure, and refugees are being roughly treated as are ethnic groups in forgien countries often they are being blamed for the pandemic. Some countries are even offiicaly blaming them, others it is just the population.
Before long military forces on the border are shooting refugees on sight, the odd firefight between border security forces occurs. After a while these engagements become protracted and cross border incursions occur. Retaliations happen claimed to protect that countries nationals who are being harmed in refugee centers, but it is retaliation pure and simple. Before long most countries are at a state of almost war with their neigbors.
How is that for a plot to start the T2K campaign?
As for the flu its self, I work in a hospital and am one of the first people they contact in the ER. So with this flu, all I have to say is,
IT SUCKS TO BE ME
