To late for me- BRAAAAAAIINSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm got a good fence an accurate scoped .22lr rifle and can get on my roof kinda easy with a ton of ammo and plenty food and water stored. They might get me in the end but the pile of bodys outside my fence will make the great wall of china look tiny.

Most of the zombie problem could be avoided if we just voted them all out of office and went back to minimal government. A small group of zombies can be controlled far better than the number we have now.

I might not be able to kill them with it, since they're already pretty much dead, but the Ruger 10/22 I bought Friday evening would at least make for a little target-shooting fun.

I love the scene from Dawn of the Dead where they're on the roof and the guy on the other roof is sniping the zombies that look like celebrities.

And lest we forget, the vegan zombies will strip the land of any edibles, especially in the Midwest. Late at night you will hear them... Grains...Grainssss

The tofulope is in trouble.

Most of the paper says that if people are turning into zombies, and the zombies never turn back into people, eventually everyone will be a zombie. Which doesn't seem very helpful or insightful.

Well that is right, unless you can kill all the Zombies before they eat everybody.
That is explored where they talk about impulse like action effects, near the bottom of the paper.
I agree that the scenario they paint is not very encouraging. I think it might be useful because does point out that some expectations, like the effectiveness of isolation or quarantine, might be false.
I forget what they gave as examples of possible real life Zombies, but the modeling can be applied to quite a few problems.

Their point was that they were able to apply the model in a more general way than is usual. Most models only have one activity going on, they have two. Not only are they modeling infection rates, they are modeling resistance and healing too.
The way they have done it allows you to put as many mass actions like that into your model as you need.
I am not a mathematician, but this seems quite interesting.

That bat that they used on Shaun of the Dead looked pretty good. Was that a Cricket bat? Apologies to all that play it if I misspelled it...

In determining the proper response it is often best to model the dynamics of a system and to see what the numbers tell you. Fortunately someone has done this for zombies. Follow the link to the pdf at:

http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2009/08/best_modelling_paper_ever.php

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that the moderators have not taken down this zombie thread. I thought those were verboten here.

I love it.

Besides being a part of Zombie Squad, I read Max Brooks 'opus', World War Z. Which goes into great detail on how society makes do during the zombie war.