French philosopher and prophet Michel de Nostradamus predicted a zombie apocalypse for 2021.
But don’t be afraid!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports you with a set of zombie preparation tips that you have kept for an entire decade.
“I wonder why zombies, zombie apocalypse and zombie preparation continue to live or walk dead on a CDC website?” asks the guide, which was developed in 2011 as a marketing trick – and a trick that catches the eye.
“It turns out that what started as an ironic campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparation has proven to be a very effective platform,” continues the guide. “We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences in preparing for all dangers through ‘zombie preparation'”.
If, as Nostradamus Annual Horoscope interpreters believe, a zombie invasion is near, then it will be a great time to warn the CDC.
“Few young people: half-dead to begin with,” wrote the 16th century astrologer, adding menacingly: “Fathers and mothers dead from infinite pains / Women in mourning, the pestilent monster: / The Great will no longer exist, the whole world to end. ”
To prepare for that worst bloody and meat-eater, the CDC page has links to several “Zombie Preparation Products”, including a comic book for preparing zombies for download; a poster for printing a person with the appearance of an undead and malicious, with very dirty nails; and tips for educators who want to plan zombie classes. (Example of a teaching tool: “The threat of the zombie apocalypse is imminent. The mayor’s team has been compromised, and it’s up to you to write a speech to the mayor advising the community on actions to be taken. What do you tell the community to do? to do ? “)
The bizarre page on the otherwise deadly website was published in May 2011 after the CDC’s head of communications became concerned about the agency’s reach – and decided that the agency’s first posts on Twitter and Facebook should be fun.
“We were talking about the hurricane season, which starts on June 1st. I think about the hurricane season and we spread the same messages every year, and I wonder if people see those messages, ”CDC representative Dave Daigle told The Atlantic at the time. “We have a great message here on preparation, and needless to say, preparation and public health are not the sexiest topics”,
The page proved to be so popular that it tripled the traffic to the CDC website and crashed its server.
The real zombie trainers, however, criticized the CDC’s advice, saying it fell short in a specific way.
“” That was one of the first things we got from the zombie crowd … ‘What weapons do you recommend?’ ”Said Daigle. “Remember, we are a public health center, so we are not going to recommend weapons … We are going to leave that to the law enforcement personnel.”