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Edit: DO NOT POST HOW LIKELY OR UNLIKELY YOU THINK THE SCENARIO IS!!! I do not care; that is neither the point nor purpose of this thread. Your task is to respond how you'd deal with the aftermath of the given scenario. God, if you have THAT MUCH of a problem with the given scenario, pick some other doomsday scenario IN YOUR OWN MIND NOT HERE and go off of that, as long as the end result looks similar to the end result of this given scenario. Sheesh...this disclaimer shouldn't have been necessary... 
Thank you to those that at least played along...
The Scenario:
It's October 2016. Almost ten years have passed since World War III first erupted in ernst. While the Persian Gulf War II only lasted a few weeks, conflict also arose on the Korean peninsula and along the Indian-Pakistani border. While the United States and her reluctant allies are busy trying desperately to keep the penisula from burning in flames once again, they are simultaneously working with governments in the Middle East to keep their people from revolting against the established governments in favor of parties holding ultra-anti-America sentiments. India and Pakistan, while exchanging more fire than any time before since their last war, manage to keep from being enveloped in broader conflict with one another. This barely restrained posture lasts for a year and a half...
...Until the world is collectively blind-sided. Smuggled biological agents, stolen from an unsecure facility in the former Soviet Union meer months after that government's collapse, are released onto an unsuspecting village in India near the northern-most border with China. While it was suspected to be the work of Pakistani Muslim extremists, there wasn't time to do a through investigation...
...the plague had begun.
In a matter of days, cases of the disease are reported as far as Eastern China, Singapore, and Southern India. In less than a month, the air-borne virus had reached almost every nation on Earth. Although not a quick disease, it is highly contagious. After only two months, the earliest cases begin dying. Soon, mass panic envelopes the world. Governments and regimes destablize as civilians and military personnel alike lash out in fear.
Four months after that tiny village in India fell victim to the henious biological attack, 90% of the world's population is dead: 5.4 out of 6 billion. While the disease itself had a mortality rate of 67% killing over 4 billion, another billion died from the conflict and violence the erupted as a result of the outbreak.
The Questions:
It has been over nine years since WWIII and you are among the 600 million who survived both the disease and the "war." How would you cope? How would you rebuild? What did you do to survive? How does the world go on?
Discuss
Thank you to those that at least played along...
The Scenario:
It's October 2016. Almost ten years have passed since World War III first erupted in ernst. While the Persian Gulf War II only lasted a few weeks, conflict also arose on the Korean peninsula and along the Indian-Pakistani border. While the United States and her reluctant allies are busy trying desperately to keep the penisula from burning in flames once again, they are simultaneously working with governments in the Middle East to keep their people from revolting against the established governments in favor of parties holding ultra-anti-America sentiments. India and Pakistan, while exchanging more fire than any time before since their last war, manage to keep from being enveloped in broader conflict with one another. This barely restrained posture lasts for a year and a half...
...Until the world is collectively blind-sided. Smuggled biological agents, stolen from an unsecure facility in the former Soviet Union meer months after that government's collapse, are released onto an unsuspecting village in India near the northern-most border with China. While it was suspected to be the work of Pakistani Muslim extremists, there wasn't time to do a through investigation...
...the plague had begun.
In a matter of days, cases of the disease are reported as far as Eastern China, Singapore, and Southern India. In less than a month, the air-borne virus had reached almost every nation on Earth. Although not a quick disease, it is highly contagious. After only two months, the earliest cases begin dying. Soon, mass panic envelopes the world. Governments and regimes destablize as civilians and military personnel alike lash out in fear.
Four months after that tiny village in India fell victim to the henious biological attack, 90% of the world's population is dead: 5.4 out of 6 billion. While the disease itself had a mortality rate of 67% killing over 4 billion, another billion died from the conflict and violence the erupted as a result of the outbreak.
The Questions:
It has been over nine years since WWIII and you are among the 600 million who survived both the disease and the "war." How would you cope? How would you rebuild? What did you do to survive? How does the world go on?
Discuss
No, damn it! That's my job! 
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