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ATTENTION CITIZENS OF MEMPHIS, TN:
THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH. There has been a recent outbreak of an infectious disease in this area. All communication is down and this is the only way to warn citizens on how to properly prepare for the crisis. The Director of Public Health has designed a plan for survival against the infected. In this plan, the following steps will include: safe places to go, how to avoid infection, what to do when infected, and where to send the sick.
Safe Places to Go
In this case of emergency, citizens will need to take action and move to a place of safety. Many people are concerned about the possibility of a public health emergency such as natural disaster, act of terrorism, or disease outbreak
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Everyone should work together and figure out what is causing the infection. Once we have that figured out, then we’ll have to find ways to avoid it. During a zombie apocalypse everyone will be chaotic and full of fear. The best thing to do is avoid any contact with a zombie whatsoever. Try to stay as far as you can away, and also stay away from the people that have been infected. Another way to avoid infection is to wash your hands with soap and water. Since we are the public health group, we help people with wounds and help the sick people. Therefore, it is very important for us to wash our hands after helping someone in need to avoid becoming infected. We want to try to avoid infecting other patients we have as well. Everyone should warn others to stay inside to avoid infection. Block all the doors and windows so the zombies cannot get to you. Make sure you have food, water, first-aid kits, clothing, bedding, weapons, and medications. Let others know to bring all the supplies they can in case you will be there for awhile.If you are outside, seek shelter. If you see any zombies try to kill …show more content…
The location is set in place for everyone to stay out of harms way. For the ones who aren 't so lucky are in trouble. This disease or outbreak is spreading rapidly and its hard to find a cure. We now have to worry about what to do with the infected. Since they are already infected we don 't have to worry about them getting the infection but we do have to worry about how we are going to transport them without us being infected. This city is in shreds and everything in their way is being destroyed. Everyone now knows to either stay where they are or if they haven 't found shelter to come to the Pyramid. The infected are hungry and we are their targets. In order to not scare everyone more, we as the Director of Public Health are taking this into our own hands. We have come up with a plan to kill all

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