DC Police quarantine neighborhood sections for zombie containment
Under the presupposition of limiting outbreaks of gang violence, the DC government has set up roadblock limiting the entry and exit into certain outbreak high risk areas.
Zombie outbreak history has lent evidence that low income neighborhoods are at higher risk due to a multitude of factors, including, gang communication, poor hygiene, violence, and increased interpersonal exposure to the possibly infected furthermore, homes in these high risk areas are often crowded and have offered only limited barriers to infection.
Sources have indicated that this event is in fact a precautionary reaction to a small outbreak that was quelled quickly, however there is strong evidence to support fears that there may still be some undead, still lurking about. In the event of a small outbreak, the first steps are often containment first, and then eradication of the contingent, and checkpoints are quickly set up, followed by sweeps. Areas that already suffer high levels of criminal violence often are difficult to sweep, as citizens are typically hesitant to report surviving zombies. There is the added challenge of violence and crime directed at the anti-zombie personell.
Officials have offered the usual explanation of high levels of toxic chemicals in the environment as cause of a rash of violent criminal outbreaks. This is a de facto ’swamp gas’ solution tactic borrowed from the Air Force’s example of hiding their experiments.
This outbreak should be considered as serious. Even as it has been quelled, there is evidence to indicate stragglers. Outbreaks in highly populated regions multiply threat factors and are to be taken very seriously as they could quickly spread (reference zombie spread patterns). Moreover, the proximity to our capital proves and added danger as it would effectively cut off the head of our state, causing mass confusion were the outbreak to flare up in an uncontrollable manner.
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