Well I'm on night duty so its a fair bet i am gonna write some stuff for this here blog. I have to be honest and say I am not prepared for the forthcoming human apocalypse that is H1N1........otherwise known as swine flu.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1N1
Popular culture (popular culture I like any how) has ill prepared me for deal with death by mutated super flu............I know or the geek within me would like to think most of us have read Stephen King's "The Stand" where the world's population is wiped out by a super flu of sorts.......as great as read as it is, the novel however does not give you the basics on how to survive that particular worst case scenario bar being one of the chosen few survivors fated to be on the side of good or evil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand
"I am Legend" by Richard Mathason, where the world's population are turned into vampires of a sort, after some sort of biological attack........love that book, and film version of it "the omega man" with Charlton Heston.........nothing quite watching the former head of the national rifle association going gun crazy against vampires in 70's USA, but yet again apart from being tooled up all the time, living in swanky flat with a well stocked wine cabinet........your still screwed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend
Alien invasion, well this is an anomaly because this is the one area were our new super flu can help us out, "War Of The Worlds" by HG Well's, the world is looking pretty much like a 24/7 all you eat buffet to the invading aliens until they get a serious cold and are wiped out by a human virus. better start stock piling some swine flu for that particular worse case scenario.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds
nuclear Armageddon. Now when i was kid I was scared shitless by the BBC film "threads" basically BBC does a what if it really happened aftermath style movie, mid 80's BBC doing what it did best quality gritty drama, and i still have a hard time watching it today..........basically we are fucked, no rosy mad max style car crazy future for us, just the long slog of rebuilding and waiting for the sun to shine again. I dare one of you to watch the fucker! see I'm still traumatised! swine flu is a piece of cake compared to that one!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads
Now, the only real global scale emergency I feel fully qualified to deal with 100% is......................the rise of the living dead! Zombies! I feel I can deal with that! "dawn of the dead" by George Romero (not the Zack Snyder remake), great movie.......basic zombie survival rule: head for the shopping mall. "28 days later", and "dead set" basic zombie survival rule: run like fuck!, "Shaun of the dead" basic zombie survival rule: always have your best bro by your side.........i know what your thinking, should the rule not be head to the pub and hide out........i have to point out who the hell you gonna get shit canned with at the pub , if it not with your best bro or girl!...........and the one rule they have in common stop by b and q for some quality blunt objects to smash zombie heads in. TV, movies and comic books have put me at ease about that particular global shit storm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Dead
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