Really? See if you get as tired of this as fast as I did. There's a 'know-it-all' quality to some of the convo here, and it annoyed me. Young journos need to exit their echo chambers. Have you seen gun manufacturers marketing for 'zombie' assault rifles, shotguns, etc.? You can even buy a pink 'zombie' AR-15 for your daughters (or sons, if they like pink).

We have one serious pandemic, or even another fuel crisis, I do worry we'll have nuts shooting people all over this nation. "Zombie" as alternative text for "not of my tribe."

I see 'zombie' marketing as a nefarious method of lowering the bar on shooting your fellow citizens through using 'self-defense' as an excuse for murder. Zombie films promote, more than any other form of film or entertainment, pre-emptive violence. There are people who are on the edge of actually believing this stuff, and are preparing for "zombie apocalypse". Marketers are encouraging it. And I oppose it in every way possible. It is of no benefit to our culture. NONE. I correlate this with conspiracy theorism - bored people expending a lot of energy over nothingness, self-generating paranoia, churning their brains into malleable muck that can be easily led by others.

What disturbs me even more is how calm these ladies are about the news media and their profit model, how news latches onto sensationalism for $ ... and they seem to just accept it without outrage.

[Caveat: I watch no zombie films, know none of the tropes ... except for one. I once camped at Blairstown, NJ (filming site of the original "Friday the 13th") before it got famous. A less-frightening, more boring camp spot, you cannot imagine.]

Later: Good god, even the CDC?!!!!!