The Walking Dead and Real CDC Security

Examiner.com ^ | 12/10/2010 | Mike Francis

[gaexaminer]

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

[RandallFlagg]

Ping-a-roonie!

[21twelve]

Yeah - its fun. But SOOOOO fakey.

They ran by the .50 caliber machine gun TWICE and nobody grabbed it! I mean, if those were REAL zombies.....

[PA Engineer]

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.

Oh great! Super Zombies! Click on picture for link.

[Mad Dawgg]

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

The "inside of the lab" decontamination and security protocols I would venture are fairly close in being realistic. (The lab scene where the entire lab was "cleansed" after a spill is probably close sans actual fire. I figure a very heavy microwave shot or a goodly dose of radiation though such would make the lab unusable until they denominated it.)

Doubtful they would blow up the building (Computer glitches do happen all the time and having that much explosives tied to such a trigger is just too risky) But I am sure very heavy doors slam shut and nothing short of heavy explosive rounds can penetrate them.

The idea is to keep people in when something goes wrong (so they can't spread the nasty bugs stored there)so most likely the designers don't allow heavy explosives to be stored inside so they can be used to get out.

[DCBryan1]

I’ve been in both USASMRID and NCTR in Pine Bluff, AR and both have some great security measures, but there is no thermobaric bomb and some super intelligent computer that opens and closes doors for you. The most secure place at NCTR is the SCIF.

[The Comedian]

You know, if Scoop 7 hadn't brought back the Andromeda strain which mutated into the reanimation contagion, we wouldn't be having this problem.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Mr. Silverback]

Does that ten minutes include the time you spent posting a reply whining about time you chose to waste, or was that additional?

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah,the thing about Ma Deuace is you wouldn’t have to worry about head shots. The bullets would tear the zombies up so badly that you could just go around to the scattered corpses with a pickax after the smoke cleared.

[TheOldLady]

So zombies really have taken over the CDC.

[Mr. Silverback]

Haven’t seen the movie, but the book was just awesome.

[The Comedian]

Oh, dude, do yourself a favor and get a hold on a copy of the original 1971 Andromeda Strain.

Microbes from space don't just reanimate the dead...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Lurker]

That was the first “grown up” movie my dad took me to see. I was 8 years old. It scared the living crap out of me. Oh was my mom pissed at him!

[txhurl]

Why would it not be shown until ‘late next year’?

[The Comedian]

That's funny. I was 8 when I saw it too. Double feature with "Silent Running".

I was friggin' transfixed.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Professional]

I did some reading, and saw that. Also, the show only within the last 2 weeks got the go ahead for season two.

I only hope it is 2 or 3 seasons, not 5 or more. After a while they lose you, it gets a bit stale.

[Tribune7]

What I'm still wondering is how the zombies overran the barricade in the first place. There sure didn't seem to be a whole lot of zombie bodies around it.

And why couldn't the just the tank to drive over the zombies without even bothering to shoot?

[Mr. Silverback]

Well, I haven’t seen that part yet. I’ve watched a total of about twenty minutes.

[papertyger]

There sure didn't seem to be a whole lot of zombie bodies around it.

After they overran the perimeter and ate the defenders...they left!

Machine guns aren't very good for making headshots, and with zombies, nothing else works.

Oh, and the tank ran out of gas.... ;o)

[fnord]

Quit watching in the 3rd episode. The predictability and political correctness became too grating. It started to look like a film school student’s wet dream.

I figured the ending would show a good looking librarian with glasses rubbing her hands evilly as she commands her zombie army to go forth and destroy.

Too bad, a good zombie show could be done.

[phatus]

Why do people feel the need to post replies to questions they don’t even attempt to answer and instead just talk utter garbage. If you don’t care what the answer is and don’t watch the show why are you even posting or is your life so sad you do this for every thread on the website.