![]() ![]() The exercises allowed medical center staff “to test response to a deadly infectious disease, a mass-casualty event, terrorism event and security procedures,” Erik Angle, Sutter’s emergency preparedness program coordinator, told me via email. “Zombie disaster” drills were held in October 2012 and ’13 at California’s Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who does not believe that zombies are coming, to issue a report railing against the waste of taxpayer money. The Department of Homeland Security even paid the $1,000 entry fees for an unknown number of participants, prompting US Sen. Actors were made up to look like flesh-chomping monsters. It included workshops produced by a Hollywood-affiliated firm in - you guessed it - overcoming a zombie invasion. in San Diego for more than 1,000 first responders, military personnel and law enforcement types. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals should be proud.Īlso in 2011, the CDC released “Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic,” a guide for surviving a zombie plague.Ĭoinciding with Halloween 2012, a five-day national conference was put on by the HALO Corp. “CZs are simply terrifying to behold and are likely only to make people become vegetarians in protest to animal cruelty.” These are described as old hens that can no longer lay eggs and are gassed by poultry farmers with carbon monoxide and buried, “but inexplicably come back and dig themselves out of piles of dead chickens,” then stagger around before dying, for good, of organ failure. According to the document, one class of zombie is proven to exist - “chicken zombies (CZs).” “The hyperbole involved in writing a ‘zombie survival plan’ actually provided a very useful and effective training tool” for dealing with all kinds of threats.Īs zombie aficionados know, the surest way to put down a zombie is to shoot it in the brain, then burn the body, CONOP 8888 helpfully divulges. “This plan was not actually designed as a joke,” document creators wrote. Is this some kind of perverse, politically correct humor? Is the government substituting outlandish villains for, say, radical Muslims? Written in 2011, this manual for “counterzombie dominance,” first unearthed by Foreign Policy magazine in May, provides the military and civilians with strategies for battling everything from “vegetarian zombies,” which pose no threat to people, to “evil magic zombies,” which do. On Sunday night, the fifth season of AMC’s hit TV show “The Walking Dead’’ premiered, with Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the gang of badass post-apocalyptic survivors not only dispatching zombies into permanent graves, but fighting non-zombie humans, who can be even more threatening than the living dead.īut can we in the real world expect the deceased to come back to life, bite people and turn them into zombies, too? You should know that the Department of Defense has put out a remarkably detailed, unclassified document, titled CONOP 8888, that tackles this very scourge. Mobs of famished reanimated corpses are not about to turn you and your loved ones into Happy Meals.Īnd yet, authorities are taking no chances. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has weighed in on an issue bound to drive owners of functioning internal organs to the whiskey bottle. Or are the livers and kidneys of random individuals about to become midnight snacks for a horde of undead cannibals? It’s a question that keeps fans of flesh-eating ghouls up at night: Are zombies, the brain-munchers who populate a million nightmares, movies and TV shows, the stuff of myth? ![]() Persecuting Christians who refuse to do work for same-sex weddings is nothing less than bigotry What to know as the Supreme Court considers freedom of faith Ashes to ashes and 'Rust' to dust: We must not reward Alec Baldwin's 'snuff film'Īlec Baldwin is guilty of a lot of things - but he's no killerĭoctors sue over having to offer suicide as an option in New Mexico
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