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Ready for a zombie apocalypse? CDC has advice
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/19...ex.html?hpt=C2
(CNN) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a big, serious government agency with a big, serious job: protecting public health from threats ranging from hurricanes to bird flu.
So when the good doctors of Atlanta warned people this week about how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, the world took notice.
"That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e," Dr. Ali S. Khan wrote on the CDC website this week, adding casually that "Resident Evil" is his "personal favorite" zombie movie.
As it happens, Khan, one of the nation's top-ranking public health professionals (he's a rear admiral and an assistant surgeon general), doesn't actually believe the living dead are about to claw their way out of graves and start chewing on your brain.
But, he and his communications team recently noticed, what they'd want you to do if the world really did suddenly go "Night of the Living Dead" is pretty much the same thing they'd want you to do in case of a hurricane or a major pandemic.
From that realization to the decision actually to put up a blog post was a short step, Khan said Thursday.
Khan floated the idea of what to do in a meteor strike on earth not long after becoming director of CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response eight months ago, he said, so his staff knew he was open to "novel and creative ideas to engage the public."
Then the CDC got a question about zombies during an online chat about radiation leaks related to the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March, and they saw traffic e.
Khan and his communications team knew they'd found a way to get the public interested in disaster preparedness, he said.
"You have a 'Resident Evil' movie coming out, 'Shaun of the Dead,' 'World War Z.' It's a good metaphor for where you have complete disruption," he said.
So they posted the advice on Monday. Their website crashed on Wednesday.
It's running sporadically as of this writing, so in case you can't get on, here's what CDC recommends: Make an emergency plan. Stockpile food, water and medicine.
Have a utility knife, duct tape and battery-powered radio handy, along with some changes of clothes and bedding.
And keep some cleaning supplies handy, along with key personal do ents like a driver's license and birth certificate.
The CDC also recommends having basic first aid supplies handy for a hurricane or a pandemic -- although, Khan admits on the CDC blog, "you're a goner if a zombie bites you."
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STFU! I admit to having plenty of fun discussions with my friends over what we're gonna do in case of a zombie apocalypse, but now it's just getting annoying. It's not clever or funny or cute anymore. It was a quick fun idea that you'd think about when you're not doing anything or good conversation while drunk with friends. It's become so ing tiresome
This accurately sums up the zombie craze.
Best thing to do is crash a Walmart. You got food, furniture, entertainment, and most importantly, guns and knives.
You fat americans with ADHD this is the only way for CDC to reach out to those with the attention span of a fly.
Is it remotely possible to become zombies? What has to happen for this to happen? Maybe some extreme radiation exposure that alters some DNA that causes our body to crave flesh? I dunno.
Major failure. Everyone will be running over to walmart and by the time you get there, there's already tens of thousands like you trying to get in.
I'm not sure people will really think about those things in those situations. People are pretty stupid. Not to mention that there are tons of Walmarts around. I can be at 3 different Walmarts in 15 minutes or less.
I thought about my HEB because I had keys to get in and get on the roof to play look out. These are the things we talk about when play zombies on Black Ops. Part of it probably has to do with the fact that it's 2 am, we just worked our asses off and got off work about 3 hours before, and some of us are drunk.
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