Chapter 23
Countdown to Civil War. One day after. Cars screeched to angled stops in front of the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Car doors left open. Ambulance sirens blazing, incoming, stopped, blocked from getting to the ER entrance by dozens of parked cars and SUVs. Paramedics rolled gurneys with patients strapped down, navigated between vehicles with engines still running. Lots of screaming. Others laughing, others crying.
Inside the ER center, wailing children, hysterical parents. Double doors of the ER entrance opening, the next patient, door starting to close, then opening again, one after another, then another, then another.
Hundreds of hospitals and urgent care centers, city after city, town after town. Across the country, on this day.
One day after.
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