Of Miss USA & Zombies

Friends,

I finished with Under the Banner of Heaven recently, and decided to start up on one of my birthday present books The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Now, I'm only a few pages into it, but there is this section about how to identify a zombie outbreak. One of the criteria is that when many people die unexpectantly from a communicable disease, because those type of diseases are rare in the industrialized world, so that kind of thing would signify a cover-up by the government/media, thus pointing to zombie outbreak. Pure logic.

That did get me thinking about diseases, specifically bird flu, sars and ebola. As far as I know, those aren't zombie coverup diseases (the zombie virus is called solanum, I believe, I'm far too lazy to fact check). So those things are very real murderers of people that aren't spread from needle use, careless transfusion doctors in the 1980s or hot-steamy-throbbing unprotected sex (just like Jane Austen inteded it to be). So, my concern is that why isn't there a constant flow of news about those diseases? How can a possible pandemic be yesterdays news? How the fuck can Miss USA's naughty behavior be front page fucking news on CNN, when something like bird flu exists?

Can there not be responsibile reporting on these topics...something like a monthly update...or how it's been contained, or why it isn't a massive worry anymore and why it's okay to fret over Britney Spears exposed vagina and Miss USA?

Or, well, maybe it's all a distraction away from the impending zombie plague.

Viva El Mustache