Zombies

Zombies seem to be “in” these days. Zombie movies, zombie documentaries, zombie TV series, zombie video games, highway traffic signs warning of zombies, smart phone apps regarding zombies, and countless websites dedicated to zombies. Apparently zombies are the new vampires. We’ve had a few predictions for the end of the world with those remaining turning into… zombies. So far, I think those didn’t come true.

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has a blog for Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness a http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/ and a county in Ohio had a mock drill for a zombie outbreak http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45087497/ns/health/ . Even a hardware store offering a Zombie Preparedness Center http://www.westlakehardware.com/specialties/zombies .

Will they be the traditional slow moving, brain eating zombies? The ones that lumber along, moaning and groaning, in search of a free meal of flesh and human brains. Perhaps a new breed of zombies will emerge. Faster, smarter, more agile zombies now those would be really frightening. We should be able to outsmart the old school zombies.

Or maybe… zombies are already among us. The ones that look like they need their cell phone surgically removed from their hands. They wander through the stores staring blankly at their phone in their hand. Paying little or no attention to whatever is happening around them. Those are like the old school zombies. They are pretty easy to out maneuver. Then you have the ones that insist on surfing the internet or sending some extremely important text message while driving. They even have traffic signs, commercials on TV, pledges to follow, and laws on the books for those. “Don’t Text and Drive”. These aren’t zombies in the classic sense. They didn’t catch some new strain of virus or were put under some ancient curse, but I’m sure they fall into some yet unknown category of zombie. We could call then Phombies! They are oblivious to what’s going on around them, seem to have only one purpose on their mind, and are often heard moaning and talking to themselves.