Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
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Most importantly, don’t get lost in fantasies of video-game action or big-screen gore. No weapons compound is waiting for you to claim its stash. No armored car is gassed up and ready to lead you out of town. There is no pause in a real zombie outbreak. No reset button when the undead overrun your defenses. No extra lives when you reach your destination, only to be shot in the back by a panicked friend or stranger.
When the dead walk, one mistake is one too many.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING
Finally, clinging to rigid preconceived notions about the living dead is a recipe for disaster.
No one can tell you exactly how zombies will behave or exactly what impact the chaos and panic they incite will have on civilization. Following the strict advice of others who claim to have all the answers will likely get you killed and eaten in the first days of the coming zombie pandemic. For me, I’m not interested in being right. I’m interested in staying alive.
So don’t trust what I say as fact. Don’t blindly trust any published expert. Don’t even trust yourself, as ego and bias can be deadly hazards. Do the work. Learn the facts. Develop new theories that might save the planet from the zombie menace. Contribute to the mounting research efforts going on across the globe.
Because what you don’t know can eat you.
NOTES
Note: All uncited quotes in this book come from the author’s direct communication with the people involved.
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