Ping-a-roonie!
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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.
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.
The zombie apocalypse part, or the CDC’s flamethrower security system part?
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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.
I have no idea how secure the CDC really is but I do like the show!
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.
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.
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.
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.
NOT EVEN CLOSE.
There is no one CDC building. There are, instead, campuses throughout the Atlanta area with many buildings.
There is no one 'command center' with a setup like the bridge of the freakin' Enterprise.
No where in the CDC charter is there anything about detonating a fuel-air bomb and taking out 4 city blocks of downtown Atlanta. The CDC is about saving lives, not about incinerating a bunch of people all at once.