Close All The Schools Now

Written By Jason Pramas

Act today to prevent a coronavirus explosion


You would think that no one had ever seen a zombie movie.

Hollywood zombies have become the stuff of jokes in recent years. A played overused metaphor—drifting so far from its original meaning that it has become meaningless. An immediately recognizable trope used by lesser storytellers in place of the better and more timely ideas that elude them.

Yet there is one thing zombies remain good for: explaining how viruses spread society wide during a global pandemic. Not all zombies are created by viruses in the increasingly puerile TV shows and films dedicated to them. But all zombies spread their contagion by close person-to-person contact of some sort.

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