{"id":45929,"date":"2014-10-14T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-2.html"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:17:51","slug":"this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-2.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Way The World Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not with a bang, but a "sure, I'm under quarantine, but it's voluntary and I'm asymptomatic and I really am feeling peckish."<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is Why Zombie Outbreak Scenarios Work<\/p>\n

You know, if I was going to write\/run a zombie outbreak story (I'm not, but bear with me) and near the beginning of the story, I said "…and then one of the members of the news crew that 'US Patient Zero' was on decides to break quarantine to pick up some food at the local Peachy Keens Buffet," people's fairly legitimate response would be "OH COME ON."<\/p>\n

Except this is, as we see, entirely plausible.<\/p>\n

Because people are fucking stupid.<\/p>\n

You can't count on much, but you can always count on that.<\/p>\n

+<\/span>Mark Brueschke<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nNBC’s Medical Correspondent Is Quarantined for Ebola, Goes Out Anyway<\/a><\/span>
\nNBC Chief Medical Correspondent Nancy Snyderman, apparently not a fan of Ebola quarantines, is now under police surveillance after she was spotted out in public in New Jersey last week.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not with a bang, but a "sure, I'm under quarantine, but it's voluntary and I'm asymptomatic and I really am feeling peckish." Yeesh. Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman: This is Why Zombie Outbreak Scenarios Work You know, if I was going to write\/run a zombie outbreak story (I'm not, but bear with me) and near … Continue reading “This Is The Way The World Ends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11697,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/use_your_braaaiiinnnnssss.html","url_meta":{"origin":45929,"position":0},"title":"Use your BRAAAIIINNNNSSSS …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jul-07 10:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ten Worst Things to Do During a Zombie Outbreak 2) Don\u2019t get too creative with zombie defense. 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