Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Zombie Management Add on Richard

Richard, I appreciate your comments and strongly resonate with your ideas about the individual and his responsibility to save himself. I think others need to adopt the approach the we have taken on this idea and derive a new idea of the word community. To me community is should be more liberal and voluntary that what is presented in today's culture. This is unfortunate but allows us to learn and grow from these ideas.

Raymond

Ray, I enjoyed reading your comments on resilience and its relationship to emergency management and community itself. You seem to bring out the best qualities of the ideas of resilience in your comments, and I strongly agree with its importance in sustaining and eventually surviving in an emergency or disaster. I believe that the source of resilience is what makes us human and urges us to continue to grow and unfold into what we are to become. Resilience is great tool when honed with discipline and purpose.

Bryan

Biedrzycke & Koltun (2012) argued "Deeper understanding of community social and economic dynamics will allow for better coordination with other emerging federal agency initiatives and policies. This entails refocusing on language, culture, socio-economic, geographic, and community status to attain true "whole of community" engagement." Bryan, it seems that you tend to agree with this idea as well as it is expressed in your comments. What I like best about what you have to express, is the idea of incorporating patience into community engagement. Current society tends to rush to conclusions, often to the dismay of its members. All we need is just a little patience and things will work out fine.

Derek

Derek, I think it is important that you stressed the federal tendency to micromanage when it is dealing with community engagement and successful outreach. By singling out the federal aspects of the problem and most likely the true root of many of the problems, you bring some well needed awareness to the imbalance that seems to be occurring between local and federal authorities. Like Biedrzycki (2012) pointed out, we all have a role to play in this game and that only a holistic approach with total and comprehensive understanding will get us anywhere. Perhaps it may be time to redefine what being a citizen is and what responsibilities it entails to guarantee freedom.

Gary

Gary, your comments on whole community were very detailed, reasonable and well thought out. I appreciate much of what you have to say. You seem to take great effort in expressing in a very deliberate manner, the means and ways that the concept can be integrated with a very systematic approach. It appears that you don't fully define the term genuine and authentic and you seem to ignore these more delicate ideas. I do however fully agree with your concluding ideas on the All Hazards Approach and how it is lacking in any comprehensive application.

Brandon

Brandon, thanks for your comments, I learned from them. I thoroughly respect your opinion however I don't' really agree with what you have written. I believe we play like we practice and practice like we play. There are much more viable and realistic things to prepare for than a fictitious zombie attack. This is further evidence that many within the government have lost touch with reality and are intent on wasting the public's money and resources on silliness and irrational war games.

Ray

Ray you bring up some good points in your discussion about the looming shortfalls in case of a bio-terror attack . While it appears we are desperately short on resources and materials as many of the hospitals demonstrate this lack, it appears prevention may be the only real defense against such an indomitable foe. It appears there is much more responsibility placed on the individual to help himself in such cases, and the government can only do so much.