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Up until last year I didn't know much about Zombies.
I knew they were dead people who chased live people but I
didn't know why.
So when the movie 'Zombieland' came out and it was billed as
a comedy, I talked anther retired teacher into going to see it with me.
I figured that I would become knowledgeable about the zombie
phenomena and have a good laugh at the same time.
Right.
"I Love
Lucy" reruns are funny.
Zombieland is not.
However I did learn why zombies chase humans, (they eat
people), so on one weird and sick level,
it could have been classified as a learning experience.
Not one I intended to
repeat.
However while
browsing through Tumblr the other day I happened to see an article that asked
whether zombies could ever really exist.
This is where you may
want to stop reading.
Still here?
Okay, don't say I
didn't warn you.
The science guy whose blog I follow, replied to the question
as to whether zombies could ever really exist by saying that while dead bodies
cannot be reanimated
it is theoretically possible that one day the rabies virus might
jump to a flu virus.
Rabies!
That's the same evil
virus that killed Ol' Yeller, my baby boomer friends.
Science Guy went on to explain that if that happened, rabies
would start being passed from person to person by coughing, sneezing, etc.,
just like the regular flu.
Which would lead to many dying, contagious, violent, brain-inflamed, zombie-like people
lurching among us tearing us limb from limb and spreading the new plague.
Jeesh.
Another reason to get the flu shot and avoid raccoons.
Happy Hallowe'en!
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