"Where are you?" Sheffield put down the phone suspiciously and kept muttering to himself. In August, he had already returned to Oak Manor in New Orleans by airship, waiting for the pandemic to be exported to the domestic market.

But now there seems to be no uncontrollable situation. Maybe it has started to spread in some places in the country, but there have been no serious consequences and it has not been discovered? There is no reason. There is a pandemic in various countries, but the United States is immune to it?

There is only one possibility. If it is impossible to survive alone, it is that they arrived a little late, and the outbreak may be concentrated and not discovered from a certain place. If this is possible, it seems that the problem is serious.

"William!" After waiting for a while, Sheffield picked up the phone again and heard his wife's familiar voice. After asking about the situation in Arlington, the slave owner said in an unprecedented tone, "Dear, blockade Arlington immediately.

All external communication channels have been sealed to me, and the train station has been sealed to me. According to the situation in Europe, the influenza has become very serious. There are also sick soldiers on John Connor's side. Sooner or later, this influenza will be transmitted to the country.

It’s just that we don’t know where it will appear.”

"I'll do it right away, and you should come back too." Anne was shocked when she heard this and said anxiously, "It will be very dangerous for you to be out there alone."

"I was in Oak Manor recently. Oak Manor was the family's former base camp. The security is no worse than Arlington. You just need to be fine. I will be careful." Sheffield felt soft. He was tough when he spoke, but

He was also afraid that he might be accidentally tricked, but his wife's well-timed concern really eased the tension in his heart.

The slave owners were not afraid that the influenza would land in that city, but they were afraid that it would suddenly break out everywhere and sweep across the country in a short period of time, making it impossible to prevent it.

"Cut off all roads out of the city!" Anne put down the phone and ordered to the housekeeper Patra, "I want to see my grandmother. Can auntie take me there now?"

In essence, Arlington was built around this manor. After receiving Lafayette's approval, the entire manor and the streets in the surrounding urban areas were deserted at night, the train station was out of service, and the entire Arlington

External contact has been interrupted, and the receptionists of the telephone exchange and the company are constantly making calls to ask managers from various places not to come to the headquarters in the near future.

"Is William making a fuss out of a molehill?" Alice Roosevelt asked with some confusion, "Does it need to be so strict?"

"Although my husband tells countless lies every day, I can tell when he tells the truth that he will not joke about it. The influenza virus is invisible, and no one knows whether it is spreading in the country.

"Anne gave Alice Roosevelt a sharp look, "He is not a politician, and I am not a voter. There is no need for him to lie to his wife."

"Well, this manor is big enough. Alice just has never seen such a scene. After all, for politicians, it is still unimaginable that a businessman can bring a city to a standstill." Edith Rockefeller said from

He smoothed things over and said, "We should be worried about him. After New Orleans was developed, the major estates in Hebei are too close to the urban area. I wonder if there will be a real influenza pandemic. Will it be able to be isolated?"

Sheffield sent another telegram to Puerto Rico, advising Gale to close local entertainment facilities and ask if anyone had flu symptoms. Puerto Rico was a small island, and if flu symptoms appeared, Gale would have noticed.

On this day, when the slave owner was walking his dog, Jesla trotted over in a hurry. Before anyone arrived, he said, "Boss, the Umbrella Company just called. In the past three days, nearly a thousand people have been hospitalized in San Francisco."

"

Here it comes! Sheffield was shocked. He didn’t expect that the great influenza in this time and space landed from the west coast, rather than the east coast, which had too much contact with Europe. The strange expression on his face flashed away, and Sheffield maintained the same posture as before.

He said suspiciously, "Is there a mistake? Maybe the matter is not that serious? The population density on the west coast is low, so there won't be any major problems."

"These hospitalized people are all accompanied by fever and cough, which seem to have the same symptoms as the European flu. I heard that the San Francisco city government has felt that the matter is serious." Jesla mentioned the local situation and solemnly said, "Boss

, should we give the umbrella company an order to be careful?"

"It's true, we can't control others. We can still manage ourselves." Sheffield nodded and waved to Jessla to make arrangements, not forgetting to tell him, "Also send a telegram to Arlington so that Anne can prepare.

"

In major hospitals in Boston, countless doctors were helpless against the influx of patients. One doctor lamented, "I have never seen so many patients in my life."

The Boston Globe then published the headline "Pandemic Flu Lands in the United States", pointing out that this deadly virus in Europe has begun to wreak havoc in the country, and the streets of Boston were in panic within just a few days.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of flu patients appeared in Chicago, and they rushed to major hospitals in the city with fever and cough. On the streets of New York, people with coughs received the attention of countless people while working.

After the pandemic first appeared in San Francisco, within just a few days, major flu outbreaks broke out in major cities in the United States. This flu outbreak was obviously more deadly than many reports. The pandemic had mutated and spread as powerfully as

The power is even higher.

New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and just two days later, news of a large number of patients being hospitalized appeared in Houston. Citizens across the United States could also feel the rumbling atmosphere of terror through newspapers.

In Chicago, a worker had breakfast in the morning and went to work in the factory at noon. In the evening, his wife received a death notice. In New York City, thousands of people have lost their lives in three days. The crematorium business is booming, and the Big Apple City is crying.

Tears.

"Boss, the Umbrella Company received news from the San Francisco hospital that most of the first batch of patients died within three days, and the mortality rate was nearly 8%." Jesla contacted the Umbrella Company in San Francisco to inform him of the true local situation.

Gave it to Sheffield.

"Eight percent is indeed a very deadly virus." Sheffield was silent for a moment, as if this pandemic still has potential to be tapped. If the death rate is this in white communities with relatively good conditions, then the even poorer blacks

What about communities? What about prisons in closed environments?

"This flu is more deadly than war. We must call on the federal government and even the police everywhere to take measures against the wildly spreading flu." Sheffield stood up and took two steps back and forth, "called in the New Orleans Morning News, asking the police to

It is said that this is the general will of citizens to blockade some communities where influenza has already appeared. For patients who deliberately spread influenza, incarceration measures should be taken and they should be put in jail. Only strong law enforcement can protect citizens from influenza viruses.

of harm.”

"I will contact the National Police Agreement immediately." Jesla agreed and was about to leave. Sheffield told the back of the bodyguard leader, "The production lines we have put into production and the medical supplies we have accumulated can be put into the market.

Contact Adams and the others and we’ll make a phone call tonight.”

In fact, the last time Sheffield communicated with the directors of the National Police Association at Biermont Manor, he had already mentioned the pandemic spreading in Europe. The directors of the National Police Association, except for the United Company, were very concerned about this pandemic.

The most prepared group of people out there.

However, the slave owners were worried that if the European flu spread back to the country, it might be a huge disaster. What they could do was to isolate the patients in a certain area, and at the same time, severely punish and imprison those who spread the virus wantonly.

Even walls can solve this problem.

This argument shocked the directors of these police associations. They said that once the influenza spreads across the country, the number of people in the police system will definitely not be enough. In this regard, Sheffield can only say that at the critical moment, he can only try his best to protect the white people.

The safety of the community must be sacrificed at the expense of some ethnic groups that cannot be taken into account.

The slave owners did not mention the black community, but the meaning was already obvious. When signs of a pandemic appeared in San Francisco, the directors of the National Police Association did not take it seriously. But then, signs of a pandemic appeared in Boston and New York.

, everyone couldn’t sit still.

Suddenly, a pandemic outbreak occurred in so many cities, and the first city to experience the outbreak, San Francisco, had already experienced a mortality rate of over 7%. This suddenly made Congress and even the citizens nervous.

The San Francisco city government was the first to enact a mask requirement. Anyone found outdoors without a mask may be fined or even imprisoned. Los Angeles also followed suit by requiring people to wear masks when shopping in public. With the use of masks in Europe and North America

As the pace quickened, the mask supply problem became more serious.

"John, ask your company in Chicago to license it to me." Sheffield called the Rockefeller Estate. "The Chicago Preventive Equipment Manufacturing Company belongs to you, right? It's the largest medical equipment manufacturing company in the country. The pandemic is coming so fast.

Your company's production capacity is insufficient, and this problem can be solved by asking medical institutions to recognize the products of the United Company's production line."

"You even thought of this." Rockefeller Jr. replied, "Did you and the Bostonians discuss it together?"

"No, but I know that the situation in Boston is very serious right now." Sheffield lied with a red face, "Put on your company's label and we can make this money together. This is good for both of us."
Chapter completed!