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The Walking Dead and Real CDC Security
Examiner.com ^ | 12/10/2010 | Mike Francis

Posted on 12/10/2010 1:03:46 PM PST by gaexaminer

For those who watched the Walking Dead finale Sunday night, is what happened to the CDC in the show realistic?


TOPICS: Local News; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cdc; homelandsecurity; walkingdead; zombies
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1 posted on 12/10/2010 1:03:53 PM PST by gaexaminer
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To: gaexaminer; The Comedian; RandallFlagg

ping


2 posted on 12/10/2010 1:11:45 PM PST by txhurl
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To: gaexaminer

I hope not.

That show has given me more sleepless nights than I need from all the thinking about how terribly unprepared we are for a biological(non zombie)type of disaster.


3 posted on 12/10/2010 1:19:13 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: txhurl
The CDC mongers are too busy harping about mundane things like "guns are a health problem" "wife-beater T-shirt guys are a health problem" "Global Warming Climate Change is a health problem" ad nauseum .....to worry about actually containing a biological hazard with a FAB (fuel air bomb). CDC is irrelevant. Anything they could do in an emergency has been supplanted with useless politically motivated bullshit. A useless conglomeration of 'scientists' infected by a political disease.
4 posted on 12/10/2010 1:25:34 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: gaexaminer

No it’s not. They’ve got gamma emitters hidden in secret compartments in the walls, floors, and ceilings. In the event of a breach they open up and rad everything to death.


5 posted on 12/10/2010 1:28:18 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: All

Useful information aside, “Walking Dead” is outstanding.
It is my only must see every week other than Trailer Park Boys and watching the Saints play.


6 posted on 12/10/2010 1:28:48 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: gaexaminer

The zombie apocalypse part, or the CDC’s flamethrower security system part?

SnakeDoc


7 posted on 12/10/2010 1:31:25 PM PST by SnakeDoctor ("They made it evident to every man [...] that human beings are many, but men are few." -- Herodotus)
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To: gaexaminer
I about laughed when the show portrayed the Center for Disease Control HQ as a government-run tippy-top security laboratory where the safeguards for preventing the release of a biological mutagen was to use fuel incendiary bombs attached to a computer controlled self-destruct mechanism to ensure that absolutely nothing survived the blast.

I bet that in real life some brand newly hired employee could just waltz in while listening to Lady GaGa on his iPod and start picking out vials of highly contagious bioweapon agents and carry them right out the front door without anyone even bothering to look up from their FaceBook chat as he walked out of the building.

Why would anyone think that the CDC has a better security regimen than the US Army's and US State Department's top secret files which ended up on Wikileaks? They probably don't even bother trying to keep up the illusion that there's rigid security there.

8 posted on 12/10/2010 1:37:19 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Maverick68

totally agree...Mandeville, la. From Texas actually, Cowboys are my home team....glad to adopt the Saints ANYTIME!!


9 posted on 12/10/2010 1:38:11 PM PST by VF-51vnv
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To: gaexaminer

I have no idea how secure the CDC really is but I do like the show!


10 posted on 12/10/2010 1:41:05 PM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
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To: Gaffer
Yep the CDC went rogue when the started on "social" problems like guns and global cooling global warming climate change instead of focusing on diseases like they are supposed to. They're a politicized organization now and not a scientific one.
11 posted on 12/10/2010 2:27:41 PM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: VanDeKoik

TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen its share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.

TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple - um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.

TV Personality: You’re talking about a virus?

Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, um, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that’s essentially what we’ve done.

TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?

Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we’ve had ten thousand and nine clinical trials in humans so far.

TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?

Dr. Alice Krippin: Ten thousand and nine.

TV Personality: So you have actually cured cancer.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Yes, yes... yes, we have


12 posted on 12/10/2010 3:18:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Maverick68

I agree, it is outstanding. The opening scene of the season finale at the hospital really shed light on the chaos of peak of the outbreak when things were falling apart. I was wondering at the end of the first episode, what happened between the shoot out on the highway and him waking up alone in the hospital bed.


13 posted on 12/10/2010 3:45:14 PM PST by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: mrmeyer

Agreed and it really made Shane’s character more sympathetic.


14 posted on 12/10/2010 5:24:10 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: gaexaminer
Not having ever watched any show with the name like "Walking Dead," and never ever likely to (I don't watch shows for mouthbreathers like "Ghost Hunters," either,) I had to do some quick googling to have a clue as to context :

The CDC is actually the national Center for Disease Control, as to the "Walking Dead," it is the name of a show and I need no further info.

As to the main question of this thread...

I don't know and I don't care.
Except that I just wasted ten minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

15 posted on 12/10/2010 5:29:45 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: The KG9 Kid

Good post, and I’d bet money that you’re right. Ugh...


16 posted on 12/10/2010 5:32:04 PM PST by Professional
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To: Publius6961

I watch extremely limited tv. But, I did watch each episode. Watching it like it was a comic strip, I found it very entertaining. And, by the ratings, a good amount of folks did. Non political, funny, grim, kooky, unrealistic, but really quite entertaining.


17 posted on 12/10/2010 5:34:52 PM PST by Professional
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To: mrmeyer

I was a bit disappointed by the explosion scene, was way too unrealistic. That blast wave would have blown out windows, knocked the cars and rv over like nothing. But, the show is what it is, cheap fun thrills and entertainment. The second season got the green light, but might not be shown unti late next year.


18 posted on 12/10/2010 5:37:56 PM PST by Professional
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To: Professional

That was my take. The concussive blast from the explosion would have killed everyone, not to mention the heat. But hey, like I tell my husband, its TV dammit, just watch and enjoy!


19 posted on 12/10/2010 7:53:00 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it. - Mr Mack)
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To: Professional

I said the same thing about the explosion. However, it’s one of best TV programs we’ve seen in a while. Very well written. We don’t watch too much TV, but this is worth it. The first season will be out on DVD in March.


20 posted on 12/10/2010 11:12:41 PM PST by stansblugrassgrl
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