These days, it seems like you can't go anywhere on the web (and sometimes, in real life) without there being talk of zombies sooner or later. It seems like everyone (including me) has a friend who thinks that they have a full-proof plan for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Sales on guns have sky-rocketed because people think that they will need to defend their families against ombies (I'm not kidding, look it up). My question to this mass psychosis is...why? Why are people so enamored on this one concept? I get that it makes for fun story-telling when done well, but this has trascended into madness.
For one thing: it won't happen.
For another: even if it did, it wouldn't amount to anything, because mankind's ONE natural weapon and means of survival is our intelligent mind. In the wilderness, mankind survives because it can build and create a means of overcoming their lack of fangs and claws. We're not that fast comparatively, either. Take away our minds and make us even slower, and we're walking coyote bait. Even if there was a disease or a T-Virus that broke out and a portion of the population became zombies:
1. We would contain it, because if all else fails, we'd just shoot them.
2. Their own bodies are decomposing and exposed to the elements, oh, and they'd be prey to predators.
3. I'm pretty sure I can keep a slow moving mindless ingrate from even touching me let alone biting me.
Zombies are not something that would overrun the Earth, let alone be able to chase its "prey"/sadistic tormentor (yeah, I can see a lot of people messin' with 'em) for an infinite period of time before their knees would fall off! Sorry, I just had to vent.
NORAD tracks Santa, but I don't see anyone older then 8 watching the skies for him on Christmas.