OK, I'll really think about it.
First however, I'd need "you" to really think about it too though, and try to decide on some definitives for me.
I'd need to know:
* "Exactly" where I'm starting from? Am I in a huge city or a smaller town? In the middle of it, or on the outskirts? Where in the state is this city? Is it in the middle of nowhere? Near a river? Near the Coast?
"in Florida" is really vague.
* I'd need to know the same things about the final destination I'm trying to reach. Geography and route planning would be extremely important before I even took one step on the journey.
Including alternate routes and fall back escape routes too.
* How much does this guy know about the virus? Or about where it is spreading and what directions?
Last edited by swampdragon; 12-01-2010 at 04:38 PM.
With all the dead people that would be around, here's a perspective from my experience as a former Deputy Coroner.
We've had discussions in past about some major event in Atlanta happening and potentially 800-900,000 folks coming up I-75 to the mountains.
We would have to rely heavily upon FEMA and the Govt. to help... all the motels would be full, after that they'd be housed in the school gyms/churches/warehouses...
Medicine at the local pharmacies would run out fast as would local groceries... there'd be likely rioting for these precious commodities. Marshall law and curfews would be invoked even at the local level... think Katrina was bad, this would be worse.
The dead... what would you do with all the bodies? Tag 'em and Bag 'em... but even in a body bag a body will only keep so long... the plan would be mass graves, no we wouldn't just dump the bodies on each other like fire wood... they'd be laid out in a pre-dug grave/field... photographed/finger printed/tagged for later identification at our convenience when things settle down. This is exactly what they did in Iraq... mass bury the dead to prevent the spread of disease. I don't know if they photographed the bodies or finger printed them.... but the other thing we discussed was making an inventory file of either a tissue or blood sample from the dead for the capability of DNA testing later if necessary. This is pretty labor intensive though to keep track of listing the bodies with a number/sex/description.
Anyways, these were just a few first houghts I had on how things would go here initially from past discussions with local officials.
I'd only keep a few bodies for testing and burn the fuck outta the rest of them down to dust Mark.
But that's just me.
Sure, go ahead and ID everybody using whatever personnel brave enough to tempt exposure. But I'd burn 'em all and make sure you stayed up-wind the whole time.
Burying contaminated people can still contaminate the soil.
And when the wind blows the soil, the disease can still spread again depending on the "virus" or whatever in question.
Last edited by swampdragon; 12-01-2010 at 06:03 PM.
OK.
That gives me some info.
44C I had to look up...to be honest.
That's payroll or finance or something?
Either way, he's at least had some basic training and CTT or Warrior Tasks training.
That's at least better than civilians with zero training at all.
(no slam meant toward civilians)
Many civilians have been through LEO courses and various other training(s) as well.
So I'm going from ORLANDO to the Kansas/Missouri border (if I'm using my own address.)
And I don't know jack shit about this virus?
Damn fucked up situation.
I'll see what I can come up with.
Yeah, 44C is finance.
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I'd love to participate in this thread, but anything that I told you would simply be a rip off of MY OWN ZOMBIE MOVIE!
If it weren't for that, I'd help write the script.
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