Beware of the department of sanitation
Martial law has been enacted in L.A. but it’s not the police you have to worry about: It’s the sanitation guys in hazmat suits led by the ruthless Emmett Harland (Peter Stormare). In “Songbird,” they act as fascistic law enforcement, taking infected people to quarantine zones (aka concentration camps) all over the city, where the conditions are barbaric and no one comes back alive.
Your smartphone doubles as your doctor
They’re not just for calling and Zooming anymore: Each morning, residents are forced to take a mandatory “temp check” on their phone to see if they have the virus. If the app says you have a fever, your lungs are compromised and/or your brain shows an anomaly, sanitation is on its way to forcefully remove you from your residence. Worse, they take the whole household, not just the sick folks.