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(spoiler alert there is no such thing as zombies).
If you are prepared for zombies, you are prepared for a lot of what would happen in a non-pretend scenario too. So talk about zombies and have tongue-in-cheek fun with that, but you're actually preparing for real problems at the same time.
If you read Max Brooks book "The Zombie Survival Guide", you will often times find yourself immersed in basic survival strategies and totally forget that the premise of the book is a zombie apocalypse. It's an entertaining and fun read, and believe it or not, you can actually learn some useful stuff from it.
I was gifted the book "The Zombie Survival Guide" for Christmas a few years ago and I really liked it. Then I asked myself if I was being silly and irrational. (Am I the only one who has these moments of self-doubt?) After rechecking my personal/family preparation goals, I realized that I was right on-track. Our basic survival needs are the same, if in different priorities, depending on our location and the disaster at hand.
It took me a while of lurking on the Zombie Squad site to understand and appreciate the zombie concept. There are quite a few people in the world who seem to genuinely obsess over the potential undead, and it can be off-putting, but for more of us preparing for less physically defined zombies is a great way to keep things in check and still meet your ubiquitous and specific local needs at the same time.
Not be overlooked is that fact that we can easily be poked fun at because of a particular disaster or "the end of the world as we know it" scenario we envision, but "zombies" keep our ideas more vague, and protected from the criticism of "You're crazy! Tha will NEVER happen!"
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