This is a perfect example of the type of low key brainwashing they were giving to these kids who, now 20-25, are refusing to look at any information saying Biden stole the election, or Covid-19 isn't more serious than standard influenza, or that the Green New Deal is a bad treatment for a mild problem or that Trump isn't actually Hitler.

Wanted to give it a read not thinking it'd be a political book. Boy was I wrong. It was fiction that somehow managed to be as shitty and bland as poorly written nonfiction The entire book is barely tied together interviews that last 3-12 pages a piece, jumping all over the world, and to many unassociated people with little nods to one another through one-off lines about a news story about the other person.

Every single soldier and police officer interviewed in the book is a female. Every other person in the book was some form of non-white. Everyone's problems are solved when the government fixes the problem. They find survivors and give them all the supplies they need then a social services agent with the housing authority comes along and gives that person a wonderful life.

People are dumb useless animals who can't organize themselves and whenever left to their own devices without government involvement they starve to death or become infected and turn into a giant mob of zombies.

The only rebellion mentioned in the book in the US was in the Black Hills, where the government was mobilizing a tank unit to take them down so society could move forward. I'm guessing Rapid City SD, one the last hardcore conservative strongholds in this country.

The only group that wasn't helpless without the government was a group of 300 college kids who turned their college into a compound and repelled the Zombie invasion under the heroic leadership of a archetypical Amazonian college girl with an SJW twist.

Most of the people who survived the zombie apocalypse were liberals. They refer to them as F-6's because they are highly educated but don't have the hands on skills needed to rebuild society but with new programs from the government they will soon pick up trades that require decades to master as hobbies and rebuild society for the rest of us dense rubes.

Almost forgot to mention, one of the dead-eye dicks in the book is a community watch member in a wheel chair with a manual action .22LR rifle who gets into hand-to-hand combat with the zombies and comes out on top using his wheelchair to his advantage. Oh, and the zombies that aren't killed from the concussion of artillery shells or explosive ordinance dropped by B-52's easily get completely brained with this guys spiced up bb-gun after one shot.

The virus starts in China, China covers it up, the US fixes it under the leadership of the UN. Then remember what it looked like when those libtards in CHAZ tried to start a farm on dirt on newspaper on top of grass for the week they were there? That is basically what the quick math in my head showed me every time the book mentioned something these retrained elite F-6's put together with their repurposed superior intellect.

There's a twelve page interview for weebs where some japanese kid who never left his room until the power went out -- 2 weeks into the zombie invasion comes out and is immediately a superhero. And there's a 12 page PETA inspired interview about dogs in the war, German Shepherds, believable; and those little weiner dogs jumping off zombie's backs and knocking them over and saving the world.

I know it's young adult fiction from a decade ago but if you ever read it (you might actually like it, i tend to have shitty taste in things) I think you'll find it's a liberals wet dream about a pandemic wiping out society, the government saving the liberals who were smart enough to survive -- because in a SHTF scenario apparently books smarts matter more than street smarts? And those said liberals, led by women and brown people rebuilding a perfect society where government functions perfect because contrary people who don't like the government were all stupid and died.