With many sensible people choosing to heed the advice of health experts and practice self-isolation and social distancing, there are fewer and fewer people out on the streets.
Many cities that were buzzing with human activity just days ago are
In these uncertain times, you'd be forgiven for looking out your bedroom window and thinking that everything looks a little apocalyptic.
On New York City subway trains, carriages are sparsely filled, with many people choosing to wear face masks (picture taken March 20, 2020):
With the world looking more and more like a post-apocalyptic television show, a Twitter user by the name of The Mad Engineer tweeted that he had asked an old college friend who lived in Atlanta if they could recreate the iconic promotional poster from the first series of AMC's The Walking Dead.
Sharing a side-by-side comparison of the poster with a recent photograph taken from the Jackson St Bridge, the Walking Dead fan wrote:
"So I asked my old college mate, that lives in Atlanta, to try and reproduce this iconic promo photo from s1. With there being no Atlanta traffic due to the pandemic, he went to Jackson St Bridge and took this for me today. Creepy."
Debuting in 2010, the first season of The Walking Dead followed cop Rick Grimes as he wakes up from a coma in an Atlanta hospital, only to discover the human population had been devastated by the undead.
The promo poster above shows Rick on horseback as he searches for his wife and son, with abandoned cars lining the highways out of the city of Georgia.
In the real world, with so many Atlanta residents sensibly choosing to stay home as a result of the global pandemic, the end result is a highway that wouldn't look out of place on another poster for the dystopian TV show.
Photographer Chris Montcalmo even took the time to edit the photograph in order to give it more of a "Walking Dead feel":
As of this writing, the tweet has been 'liked' over 2,500 times and retweeted over 1,000 times.