Zombie Outbreak?!

I love Zombie’s the amuse the HELL OUT of me and yes a lot of people think I am crazy because I think that Zombies will one day come into existence because some crazy scientist will try to bring his wife or kid back from the dead. My friends and I have a play for Z Day, trust me when I go to look to buy a house finally, I will have zombie protection and fortification in mind :-) I may be a little crazy, but I would rather be crazy with zombies instead of something else! Zombies fascinate me, just the idea of the dead coming back to life is scary, downright scary, something coming back from the dead, an unstoppable force that could take over the world within a matter of months endangering the human race to extinction, ya that kinda freaks me out and I like to get a little freaked out (that is why I love to watch horror movies and read horror books).So anyway, my friend sent me this funny ass article, because she knew I would love it “Science Ponders ‘Zombie Attacks’”. (note BBC did not actually make this article, but you still gadda love it) and I did.

So in this crazy and funny ass article, mathematicians and scientist got together and figured out what would happen to civilization if zombies actually existed. They modeled zombie attacks using biological assumptions based on books and movies (because really what else do they have to go off of)

Some of the guidelines they went off of were:
• Slow moving zombies
• Kill to the head
• Turn to living into zombies from bits

And of logical conclusion was that our civilization would fall. Unlike swine flu and other infectious diseases zombies come back to life and can keep coming and coming in greater and greater numbers until you take them out by destroying the brain! You can’t cure the common zombie virus, Solanum. Yes for anyone who has read World War Z or the Zombie Survival Guide you know what Solanum is. For those of you that haven’t, Solanum is the incurable virus that reanimates the human dead. Once you are infected with Solanum, there is no coming back, you can’t just cut off the infected part and be ok, once it hits the blood stream you are toast! You have a few hours to a few days until you become one of the living dead and you turn on your friends and family. If someone you know is bitten by a zombie, kill them, unless you wish to die, because they will turn on you!

Cities like London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong would be doomed, so if you life in a city…you better hope Zday doesn’t come while you are alive. Now, country folks that live in small towns are better off and will last a lot longer than people in the city, not cuz people in the city are crazy, but population wise, less people = less zombies to worry about.

Now if you are smart, you will have a bunker, like a Y2K bunker stocked with food and supplies, but you would want to include guns and other weapons like crowbars, hammers, crossbow, bow and arrows. Guns are great, but you gadda be a great shot to be able to take down a zombie with a bullet to the head as they come lumbering towards you and you gadda think that eventually with 3/4th of the world chasing after you, you will run out of bullets. So crowbars, hammers, etc will come in handy for SURE! I will be prepared, will you? I recommend reading Zombie Survive Guide by Max Brooks, that will really help you out!

Now I would love to see a real research study done that really looks zombies and how they would destroy civilization. I would be interested in how people would react. To be honest, it wouldn’t take me long to realize that zombies had come back from the dead, and the quicker you accept that the longer you will survive. The Zombie article was great and funny, and I love any excuse to talk about zombies :-)