"Zombie Apocalypse" - Are We the Zombies?

 

'Know how to stop the undead? An October exercise in California will pit military trainees against a horde of role-players exhibiting zombie like behavior. Here, participants in a “zombie walk” in Sweden show their stuff. (Jonathan Nackstrand / Agence France-Presse via Get)'

'An article in Huffington Post September 17th 2012 said,  "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ready for a zombie apocalypse. Gun owners got prepared for a zombie apocalypse. 

Now, the military and law enforcement are getting ready.  And next month, they'll begin training." 

During the spring and summer there was a national Zombie Apocalypse campaign that set up shooting range events calling out gun owners to prepare for shooting 'the Undead' human Zombies. 

 The Huffington Post continues, "Security firm HALO Corp. announced yesterday that about 1,000 military personnel, police officials, medical experts and federal workers will learn the ins and outs of a zombie apocalypse, as part of an annual counter-terrorism summit , according to the Military Times."'



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Was Miami’s “Zombie” Attack a Case of Rabies?

'Police and the media are always ready to blame drugs for any aberrant behavior, and sometimes, of course, they turn out to be right. But it seems that a lot of times “drugs” is officialdom’s “god of the gaps”: It’s another way of saying, this is bizarre behavior and we have no clue what caused it. On the chatboards, they have another theory: all the talk is about the coming “zombie apocalypse.”





As soon as I read these reports, I instantly thought “rabies.” I could be wrong, too, naturally, but my thought was inspired by a book I just read by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, a husband and wife team (he’s a journalist, she’s a veterinarian) called Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.'


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