America is prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

sander233

Your tax dollars at work.

(Read the disclaimer - it explains a lot.)

steamwright

So the whole scenario was developed to train people in developing response systems and was selected because it could not be mistaken by a jittery public for plans for a real-world scenario of which the government might have gotten wind? Makes sense I suppose.

The first thought I had when seeing this was the zombie apocalypse that occurred in the game WoW just before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. If any are not familiar with it, players characters could become diseased, and turn into a carrier. It proved too effective, and the event was cut short when players protested, realizing they could not proceed with their normal gaming. It was said that the data and patterns of the event were studied by organizations and government interested in the pattern of zombie contagion, a possible equivalent to RL biological terrorism contagion.

saihung423

My buddy drills his family every few months on zombie preparedness. He has "zombie weapons" hidden in easy access spots for him and his wife and other (more appropriate) ones hidden for easy access for his kids.

He has a blast with it but...like he notes, when he yells zombie attack, his kids are ready and listen to him like a salty recruit listens to a drill instructor in boot camp.


He does plan on training them further in self defense and weapon safety, when they get just a bit older. I believe his target age for his eldest daughter is 10.





I'll tell you what, I stopped in my tracks when visiting and he pointed at me and yelled "ZOMBIE!!" lmao.

He noticed my hesitation to move, and told me not to worry, the family was out shopping and wouldn't kill me.

I really love that guy and his family, they are the epitome of punk rock fun, and he his kids adore him and his wife. Which shows in how well they listen.

cptjhunter

I was aware that the CDC used a "Zombie Apocalypse" outbreak, as a training scenario.It made sense in so much that it would be an "Aggressive, rapid spreading, contagion"

hawku001x

can a canadian use this? i 'll need to defend against zombie moose

jacqueline3752

youtube has many types of preppers shows and seasons from alround the world

Zombie Preppers full episode

Doomsday Preppers

hevach

steamwright wrote: »

So the whole scenario was developed to train people in developing response systems and was selected because it could not be mistaken by a jittery public for plans for a real-world scenario of which the government might have gotten wind? Makes sense I suppose.

After Abel Archer 83 almost turned real halfway through, it's a good idea.


Also, the government and military want to keep the kind of people who make these plans on the payroll all the time, but they want to keep them sharp and flexible. Just strategizing for the handful of likely or plausible events risks making them less flexible, since it's basically the same few scenarios all the time.

This is why you can occasionally find weird military plans in declassified documents, like disrupting Canadian elections with air strikes. Bizarrely implausible events are usually just exercises for the strategists, to make sure they're not running through the same three middle east police action scenarios over and over all the time.

jonsills

The US Department of Defense also maintains a small, extremely part-time council of science-fiction writers, paid a tiny stipend in exchange for making themselves available for occasional creation of scenarios to test (and for full-time consultation in the event of something like an alien invasion, of course). It's been used as a plot point in the Niven and Pournelle novel Footfall, with No Celebrities were Harmed versions of famous authors (most fans would get at least some of them, and of course the group's leader, Robert Anson, was fairly obvious), and in one David Brin short story. (Dr. Pournelle was a member of the real-life council for a time, and I'm pretty sure Niven was in it too. Dr. Brin wasn't a member, apparently, but knows a few - he also has a friend who works on the White House advisory council, and he keeps lobbying his friend to sneak in increased appropriations for NASA in the budgets. Maybe if Congress would actually pass a budget...)

worffan101

jonsills wrote: »

Maybe if Congress would actually pass a budget...

Yeah, when pigs fly and Louie Gohmert stops saying unbelievably dumb things every single time he opens his mouth...

Don't put too much trust in our government, jonsills. They've been a pack of fools since...the Reagan administration, at least. Before that they were merely incompetent and/or evil (c.f. Nixon (evil), Kennedy (incompetent), and Gerald Ford (incompetent)).

Edit to add: Out the rest of the day to see Mahler 3, may or may not have IntraWeebs access.

starkaos

hawku001x wrote: »

can a canadian use this? i 'll need to defend against zombie moose

Sorry, there is no defense against zombie moose and zombie beavers.