Pig flus + zombies + Battle Royale = Highschool Of The Dead

The illustrations by Shouji Sato were what originally caught my eye, and the more I saw Highschool Of The Dead, the more I wanted to learn about it.

If you can distill out the Japanese manga/anime hyperbole, it has interesting thoughts into how the general population, media, and public services might respond to open pandemic.

Of note: the 1918 "Spanish flu" pandemic (the prior instance of H1N1) gets mentioned in Chapter 2. In conjunction with how zombies happen, you know it'll be a supergood apocalypse.

Not so sure of the legality behind this -- although I don't know where a genuine translation can be obtained -- you can read the manga on One Manga.

Fear not

Everyone's nervous about the swine flus and catching it on planes from Mexico. Because that's what happens: Mexicans will cough on you on the planes. Joe Biden says so.

But seriously, look! Maribel Guardia is Mexican AND on a plane without a mask on, so it must be cool. Would she lie to you?

Maribel Guardia was examined and declared fit for popular consumption from F-listed.

In case of zombie/pig flu apocalypse...

Bottle opener, screwdriver, Strider wrench, nail puller, and improvised shank. Nope, it's not another Swiss Army knife — its the TAD Gear B.R.A.T.T.

The Be Ready Always Titanium Tool was found on Uncrate.

Panic Map!

The intergoogles provide us with a method to wend our way through the inevitable pig flu holocaust.

This lifesaving service was found on Lifehacker.

Way to hold it in, Veep

Crazy Uncle Joe Biden lends us some pandemic panic...

“I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show.. “It’s not that it’s going to Mexico. It’s [that] you’re in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me."

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[In a press release to "extend and revise," the administration said what he meant to say was] Americans "should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico...If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways."

It's good advice -- avoiding unnecessary travel and strange contact -- but due to the administration's need to "clean" and Biden being such a harebrained and hairtriggered flapjaw, I have to wonder: Does Pepto Bismol work on H1N1 AND diarrhea of the mouth?

P.S.: CAPTION CONTEST!

Caption Contest!

Since the Swine Flus seem to be moving towards total pandemic, Egypt decided to kill all the little piggies (without telling Jeff). So the Christian Egyptians have decided to riot. Thus, we now have another fine episode of...Create Your Own Caption!