World War Z_ An Oral History of the Zombie War ( PDFDrive )

Oh, c’mon. Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve”
disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make
them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That’s not cynicism, that’s
maturity. You can’t stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won’t leak, or at
least won’t leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.
What does that mean?
C’mon…
Seriously. What does that mean?
Fine, whatever, “Mister Smith goes to motherfuckin’ Washington,” it means that, in politics, you
focus on the needs of your power base. Keep them happy, and they keep you in office.
Is that why certain outbreaks were neglected?
Jesus, you make it sound like we just forgot about them.
Did local law enforcement request additional support from the federal
government?
When have cops not asked for more men, better gear, more training hours, or “community
outreach program funds”? Those pussies are almost as bad as soldiers, always whining about
never having “what they need,” but do they have to risk their jobs by raising taxes? Do they have
to explain to Suburban Peter why they’re fleecing him for Ghetto Paul?
You weren’t worried about public disclosure?
From who?
The press, the media.
The “media”? You mean those networks that are owned by some of the largest corporations in the
world, corporations that would have taken a nosedive if another panic hit the stock market? That
media?
So you never actually instigated a cover-up?
We didn’t have to; they covered it up themselves. They had as much, or more, to lose than we did.
And besides, they’d already gotten their stories the year before when the first cases were
reported in America. Then winter came, Phalanx hit the shelves, cases dropped. Maybe they
“dissuaded” a few younger crusading reporters, but, in reality, the whole thing was pretty much old
news after a few months. It had become “manageable.” People were learning to live with it and