Thanks to ConjunctionJunction for the ping.
Posted on 11/11/2015 8:38:49 AM PST by DogByte6RER
We’ve a lot of slug and double-0 -dad’s on the internet looking for that weird stuff in 12ga.
BRRRRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNSSS!!!
DANG!
“I really don ‘t think it takes a “disease model†to establish the patently obvious.”
I’ve read this before and they used a disease spreading model to determine how far the disease would spread in a certain number of hours. That is just the disease, not considering the dead walking around and eating people.
This isn't new titillation. Daniel Defoe took his uncle's notes and wrote A Journal of the Plague Year in 1722, and it's still pretty interesting reading. Albert Camus' The Plague was an extensive examination of human behavior under that sort of stress - he denied, with considerable justification, that it was even an existentialist novel. I'm guessing, based on this, that the genre will be with us for awhile. And it indicates that although walking-dead zombies aren't real (however much fun it would be) societal breakdown and changes in human behavior faced with widespread threats to survival are. Laughing that off is whistling through a graveyard.
Oh, where I said zombies aren't real? I lied.
Iron Maiden is always right.
...and....don’t forget to double tap.
People should look at Angola for what happens when food sources disappear. My understanding after their recent civil war- that they do not have rats,cats,dogs and most 4 legged animals. They just do not exist.
Here in my corner of the southwest, they’d dehydrate to jerky in a few days.
"You sure do have purty lookin' brains..." (banjo music in the background)
M. O. O. N., that spells zombie!
DON’T HEAD FOR THE HILLS. You will encounter people like me.
There’s the assumption/requirement that zombies resist decay and are poisonous to carrion eaters. Otherwise, yes, they decay or get eaten in a couple weeks.
After all, dogs would have a field day if they COULD eat zombies and not get infected.
And our modern free love model will die when there are antibiotic immune STDS - several of which are already found in homosexuals.
In 2014, I saw the headline “Gonorrhea is about to become impossible to treat”.
If that and other STDs lead to someone suffering mightily, the easy sex exchange will stop in a way AIDS didn’t after anti-virals made it a manageable condition where the infected could live another 10-25 years.
Some take the term “Zombie” as a metaphor - a nicer term for the ferals & unprepared in big cities who will be on the prowl for their next meals/victims.
Still, unless you already have a fully-stocked retreat or tribe expecting your arrival “in the hills”, you’re simply going to have a slower & more painful death via starvation or waterbourne illness.
At least the scenery will be nicer :-)
This entire process could be made much easier, and the zombies slowed significantly, if morticians were required to tie the shoes of the dead together.
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