[Kartographer]

This image released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a public service poster on Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic. "The zombies are coming!" says the Homeland Security Department. Tongue firmly in cheek, the U.S. government urged citizens Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, part of a public health campaign to encourage better preparation for genuine disasters and emergencies. The theory: If you're prepared for a zombie attack, the same preparations will help you during a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake or terrorist attack. (AP Photo/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

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Well I would be sharpening my axe to cut heads off but I don’t think that’s where they are going with this.

Mel

[Sybeck1]

Firearms and melee weapons, check.

[Molon Labbie]

The government may seem to be joking, but they really aren’t. They are really telling people that have to be self-sufficient because the government is not truly prepared to assist the citizens in a nationwide “unusual occurrence”.

Besides, there is a hierarchy on who gets saved and who doesn’t. Guess where the average citizen fits in?

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Strange. The basic prep for surviving a zombie apocalypse is food and water, medical supplies, guns and ammo, LOTS of guns and ammo.

Why would a branch of the federal government with the fedgovs open agenda of citizen disarmament even jokingly make a suggestion that people arm themselves for the eventuality of dispatching a massive number of threats?

Am I the only one who finds this somewhat odd?

[autumnraine]

Didn’t they do this last year?

[sten]

code phrase

‘ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE’ == desperate, starving, slow moving people looking for food and willing to attack/kill others if necessary

[ctdonath2]

That’s a “graphic novel” available at http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/_media/cymkPrint/11_225700_A_Zombie_Final.pdf

[WKUHilltopper]

That entire agency is loaded with lesbian zombies.

[Hardraade]

I have this new claymore design in my head, no explosive, choice of shrapnel and trigger, multi-shot capability. Close to soundless. And cheap :).

[RandallFlagg]

[Texas resident]

This warning is issued while multiple federal agencies are stocking up on hollow point ammo.

All silliness aside, be watchful for president choom and his media to start something before the election.

The panic that ensued from the 2008 market crash got ozero in office. Of course mccain helped, but this go round, ozero has the full force of the federal government behind him.

[Alex Murphy]

The living dead might outvote the rest of us, and re-elect Obama to a second term!

[Dead Corpse]

http://wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/phpr.aspx

At one point in time, you could order the above posters directly from the CDC for free. I ordered 3 of each size/type. I even have one hanging in my office at work.

Now it looks like you can download them, but have to print them yourself.

[wastedyears]

Yeah, Democrats.

[Dr. Ursus]

Must have EBT cards! EBT cards good!

[concerned about politics]

NO, REALLY: GOVT WARNS OF 'ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE'

Welfare recipients after Obomas economic crash. They'll be suffering from free stuff withdrawal.

During the last depression, people had to work together to get through it, and they did. They were a hard working people.
Today, half the population feeds off another human. When the host can no longer support the parasite, the parasite has to find a way to survive on something else. They'll be exactly like zombies.
After an oboma crash, there's nothing we're going to be able to do for them. All we can do is protect outselves and our families from them until there aren't any left.
We can have a clean conscience about it, though. It wasn't us who decieved them. We tried to save them from the left. They chose not to listen.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Better stock up on zombie Max bullets

http://www.hornady.com/ammunition/zombiemax

[Vince Ferrer]

What surprises me is not the reference to zombies, but that the government wants us to prepare at all. Only a year or two ago they labeled preppers as borderline terrorists. What prompted the change?

[YoungHickey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4