Are You Fully Prepared for Zombie Attacks?

Wow. And yet someone thinks it is ok for children to stockpile guns as long as they might only have a few and we don't think they are on medication. And telling someone - that is snitching? Or maybe that could be getting help for a kid in trouble. And maybe preventing the next school shooting. Oops, don't want to impinge on the rights of delusional CHILdREN to bear arms in the well regulated anti zombie militia.

The CDC paper on zombies addressed statistical questions of how infectious organisms spread through a population. The zombies were just a tongue in cheek model.

I can run fast. I think I'll live.

There are always nut jobs preparing for something that will never happen.

Like Cheerful, we're not really prepared, but we do like to talk about it. We have some basics in place, but not much else. I think it's a non-threatening way to talk about disaster plans.

Love this question. I guess you can find someone preparing for emergencies of all sorts, real or imagined.

The Montana Emergency Alert system was hacked yesterday. Apparently the hackers claimed "that bodies were rising from graves and were extremely dangerous". http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-12/hackers-issue-z... So your question is pretty appropriate. No real plans here, but we are a little obsessed with zombies, so I am sure we'll be fine.

What do vegetarian zombies eat? (Say in best zombie voice) Grrrains.

well, i was.
then all my teenagers with their amazing know-how moved out.
my husband is a handy fella. i'm sure he'll figure something out. i'm pretty much strictly ornamental.
but in all seriousness, i was doodling around with junk tv last week and came across a show where people were buying ISLANDS. i was so jealous i stuck around. and one guy must have said a dozen times that he had to have a small island in the keys in case of zombie attack. i assumed it was a joke, but he reiterated it a buncha times.
and interestingly, i dreamed last night i was being attacked. for the first time ever in a zombie dream i just rared up and whacked 'em in the head with the shiny pretty long sword i happened to have. obviously the walking dead marathon this past weekend is having a delayed effect.
:) khairete
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Yikers. I live plenty of my life in fantasy land but even I only have a joking plan for the zombie apocalypse.

Although my husband and I did have one fun evening discussing which superheroes from the Marvel-verse would be most useful during the zombie apocalypse.

I'm prepared for any supernatural disaster - got my crossbow, sacks of salt, silver bullets, wooden stakes, and rosaries for making holy water. All that's missing is convincing Jared Padelecki, Jensen Ackles, and Norman Reedus to move in with me.

absolutely...we watch the walking dead series so we know exactly the doe's and don't.
otherwise. nope.

I'm working on an anecdote in my secret laboratory :-)

No, but we jokingly have a plan..

I think it freaks some people out. I had one friend (not very bright) who thought we were serious.. Oh brother..

I remember my inlaws used to always talk about the "perfect robbery".. We are talking White Bread, good 2 shoes type of people..

We figured it is really hard, because we could always think of tons of ways it would all get messed up.

I'm hoping you're not a professor.

I can totally get the average 8yo, or particularly gullible 12yo believing a grownup or teen making a joke.

If this is a competent person, then Im afraid our mental health system has achieved yet another epic fail.

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An I prepared for zombies?
Yep.
I've been eating shrimp & crawdad heads for years to prepare my pallet for braaaaaaaaaaains.

Ann, dear, I think the tofu has gone to your brain. From the article you posted from Natural News:
"The Zombie Apocalypse is very whimsical," said Brad Barker, president of HALO, who said the addition of zombies to the curriculum is intended to add a little levity to otherwise extremely important, and more dire, scenarios, MilitaryTimes.com reported.

Anywho, I was watching HGTV's House Hunters the other day and there was this couple looking for an island to buy. Seems the husband has an acute dislike of neighbors. He kept talking about how living on an island will save him from 'zombies' and how zombies can't swim. In the half hour episode, he must have mentioned zombies at least 4 times! I was cracking up! (I hope he was kidding?)
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ETA: Oh hahaha, Suz T ... I just read your comment about the dude on that HGTV show! I'm so glad someone else saw that episode, it was hilarious!!

Well, this may be a shock, but believe it or not, there are people out there who have a "collection" of guns, for whatever reason.

The show "Doomsday Preppers" is all about people getting ready for any number of things that will cause the "end of the world". I tape the show and watch it, I think its facinating and on a smaller scale, I agree that we should be prepared for something to happen.

I used to live in CA so we had "earthquake preparedness" pounded into our heads. So we had changes of clothes, water, flashlights, food, etc, ready in case of an earthquake so we could survive for a few weeks at least without help.

I think its just smart to have stored canned food that doesn't require anything to eat. At least a couple months worth. What if our computers/electricity was compromised? EVERYTHING runs off a computer. No gas, no banks, no deliveries to grocery stores, etc.

So Zombies, no, not concerned. But other catastrophies, yes, its smart to be somewhat prepared to be self-sufficient to a point. JMO.

Remember 1999.

There was a nation wide possibly a world wide panic. People actually thought computers would crash and we would be unable to get food - gas - electric ect ect ect. I remember news stories about people having stockpiles of supplies in their basements and garages complete with generators and piles of back-up batteries.

No matter what people do nothing really surprises me anymore. That's not to say I agree. I think some of them need to spend some time in a rubber room. But surprised no.

I hope we are far enough north that we will be ok. The boys and I often discuss our zombie appocolypse preparadness. It doesn't include guns, but we do discuss what garden tools and kitchen knives would be handy, and we have a trip to the archery range (just down the street) planned to stock up on bows and arrows in the event of actual zombies. We also have plans for food, water, heat, electricity etc. I suppose those plans could come in handy in case of any number of disasters. My seven year old asked me if in the event of the zombie appocolypse if he would be allowed to use the "f bomb" and I told him as long as I actually see the zombies first he has my permission. And no, we don't belive there will be a zombie appocolypse, it is just a fun thing to talk about.

Nope, but one of my favorite movies is Zombieland ... double tap!!

Happy to report I don't know O. single person that is actively preparing for a zombie attack. (Lord, help us.)

In the event of zombies, I'm a goner unless I can get north with my family.

My family up north will survive, they have land and guns. Easy access to small livestock and their own well.

Some "zomibe" preparations is very similar to disaster prep. So the Prep Groups are really about community survival and aid.

Not a bad a idea to have survival packs for you and your family, just in case.

How old are you students? Please tell me that they aren't highschoolers...

I hate to say that I can just about believe any excuse for stockpiling guns, but seriously, zombies?

Ugh...

It worrys me more that someone with a high school sense of humor can hack an emergency alert system!

We're not REALLY prepared, but we do talk jokingly about our "plan."

With Monsanto messing with our food system and all the genetically modified foods, I don't think that it's a total impossibility that a Zombie Apocalypse will happen!

It doesn't help that our national government has been using talk of zombies and zombie preparedness when they go about their training exercises. I can just see how an impressionable youth/adolescent would see or read an article or hear on the radio about the government or law enforcement agencies doing trainings in how to defend the country against zombie attacks/a zombie apocalypse and then believing that this is actually true.

After all, the government said so.

Check these out:
'Zombie attack' preparedness military training now being offered in counter-terrorism program, Tuesday, September 25, 2012
http://www.naturalnews.com/037303_zombie_attack_military_...

May 2011: the CDC.gov website suggested that a "zombie apocalypse" would result in the streets of U.S. cities being flooded with zombies that wanted to eat our brains (http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/prepared....

If you really start looking, you can find even more such articles on the Internet.

Getting all excited about a student stockpiling guns is a little excessive, if you ask me, unless you know for a fact that this student has psychiatric issues and is taking SRRIs and/or really, really believes there are zombies/is terrified of them and would conceivably act out this fear/terror.

Otherwise, you have an adolescent in your class who is just talking. How does she know how many guns this kid has? Maybe he has one or two. That does not mean he's "stockpiling." And as of now, having guns is still LEGAL in this country. Why on earth would you have to say anything at all? Did you not think that maybe it's a boy who is playing "big" around this girl and boasting? Or trying to yank her chain and seeing if she will actually believe he believes that there will be a zombie attack (while he and his friends are snickering over the fact that she actually believed him and is so damn gullible)?

I mean, really. Are teachers now supposed to be the new government snitches?

I for one am all for making sure I am able to defend myself. As I am all for the fact that we need to have enough rations on us to be able to go for a while (a week, two weeks, a month, maybe longer) in case there really is some type of natural disaster or a nationwide emergency (say we have a severe solar flare and all electronics/electricity are wiped out).

While I don't believe I'll ever have to worry about a zombie attack (I do know the difference between fantasy and reality), I have grave doubts these days about how things are going overall in both our government/country and the world at large.

I do not believe in tyranny. I do believe in freedom. And I will defend and protect my family.

I swear I cannot understand this constant media barrage about zombies! What is up with that?

There's a whole TV reality series based on people who are preparing for the end of the world, and all for different reasons. I think God has a plan for all of us, I'm not worried. Whatever is going to happen, whether it's man eating computers or zomble, is gonna happen. Stockpiling guns I think is a little much, but at the same time, there are all kinds of crazy and non crazy people with guns. I would agree with arming yourself to protect your family from those people.

No, but I love that genre of book/movie, especially 28 days/weeks later

Ummm, aren't zombies already dead? How on earth will guns help?

Other than the scary fact that people are stockpiling guns for some kind of Armageddon, that's pretty funny.

Love S.B.'s vegetarian zombie joke.

Oh yes, my brother in law has very specific plans, including a homemade suit of armor, weapons, and buildings mapped out that are indestructible. It cracks me up!

What I would do as a teacher? I'd send home a letter with each student for parents to read, sign, and return regarding this and ask parents to explain to their child that this isn't real, nothing to have to stockpile against, and maybe put an end to this type of television viewing.

I absolutely do NOT get what is going on with the creators of these shows. They're doing vampires on overkill, they're introducing zombies like it was cartoons. It's stupid. And shows like these should be on the SyFii channel to start with. But it's so out of hand anymore. Like people really need to be bombarded with the dark and sinister of life like this. No wonder the suicide rate has increased! Mattel doesn't help by making Twilight dolls either.

I don't believe in Zombies. As far as others preparing for this, yes... I have heard of some, but they are the wacky type and aren't credible to me.