Apocalypse: Texas style!

"The rumors about the plague ran as varied and as rampant as the sickness itself. Perhaps it was a new strain of flu too sturdy for vaccines? A government bio-war project escaped from its compound, or maybe God’s punishment for a decadent society? I don’t know how it began, and now that it has run its course I don’t much care. It passed me by and I count myself much luckier than the scores upon scores of unfortunate souls that succumbed to the sickness, about ninety five percent of the popu...