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One way or another, ere on our way

My sister has retinal KA syndrome That’s where the filovirus does thisin the ocular fluid—there’s some more advanced technical teroo,” because it pisses George off—and the pupils dilate as wide as they can and never close down like they do in a noret it, which is a relief, since I look stupid in sunglasses Her eyes are supposed to be brown, but everyone thinks they’re black, because of her pupils being broken

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But anyway, zo Cool

You know, it’s been , and that is still probably the best present that she’s ever gotten forof Shaun Mason, April 7, 2037

Six

Getting our equip offered by Senator Ryman’s staff took six and a half hours Shaun spent the first two hours getting underfoot as he tried to guard his gear and finally got all of us banished inside Noas sulking on the parlor couch, chin al the van apart to ?” he gruee, that would work really well as an assassination tool”

“It’s been tried,” Buffy said “Do you ree Romero with the zombie pit bulls?”

“That’s an urban myth, Buffy It’s been disproven about ninety tie Romero died peacefully in his bed”

“And now he’s a happy shaovern his sulk in order to make “zombie” motions with his arer as one of the few truly universal hand gestures Some points just need to beabout hi around out there, all decayed andthe classics of his heyday,” said Buffy

I eyed her “He’s a government zombie He eats better than we do”

“It’s the principle of the thing,” she said

It took a while for the first Kellis-A but hoaxes, and even after that was accoencies to finish fighting over whose proble about three days in, jus with both feet, and never looked back They had squads in the field by the end of week two, capturing zombies for study It was quickly apparent that there’s no curing a zoe the virus does with anything gentler than a bullet to the brainpan But you can work on ways to neutralize Kellis-Amberlee itself, and since all a zombie really does is convert flesh into virus, a few captive shamblers provided the best possible test subjects

After twenty years of testing and the derailment of almost every technical field that didn’t feed directly into the ed littleAt this point, they can co a combination of chemotherapy, blood replacement, and a nasty strain of Ebola that’s been modified to search and destroy its cousin There are just a fensides, like the part where it costs upward of ten thousand dollars for a treatht, the constant fear theA even worse to deal with Where the living dead are concerned, we prettyfor researchers to connect the health of their “pet” zo or recently killed flesh; soybeans and legumes won’t cut it—they consumed Kellis-Amberlee converts tissue into viral blocks The inal zombie it converts So if you feed a zo useless Most of the nation’s re dead A beautiful irony, when you consider that cows break the forty-pound threshold, and thus reani zoet it

A lot of folks leave their bodies to science Your faoverne winds up on television one of these days, and if you belong to one of those religious sects that believes the body has to reet carried up to Heaven, you don’t run the risk of offending God You just risk eating the research scientists if contain as e Romero didn’t mean to save the world any more than Dr Alexander Kellis meant to almost destroy it, but you can’t always choose your lot in life Most people wouldn’t have had the first idea of how to deal with the zombies if it weren’t for the lessons they’d learned from Romero’s movies Go for the brain; fire works, but only if you don’t let the burning zombie touch you; once you’re bitten, you’re dead Fans of Romero’s films applied the lessons of a thousand zombie movies to the reality of what had happened They traded details of the attacks and their results over a thousand blogs from a thousand places, and humanity survived