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Most people reading this have made some sort of comment, statement, or joke about "The Zombie Apocalypse" in the past few years - if you haven't, then you've probably heard or read it, spoken or written by someone you know. Either way, you didn't give it a second thought, or at most, you thought to yourself, 'Meh, dead metaphor.' (Yes, pun intended - sorry!) But suppose the zombie apocalypse actually happened? Suppose that every single person you knew most likely had a friend or relative that was killed and devoured by flesh-eating zombies. Would it still be okay to joke about "The Zombie Apocalypse?" Of course it wouldn't - it would be like joking about the Bubonic Plague while it was going on, and people were dying all around you. At some earlier point, you considered it a benign subject, and okay to joke about. Then, when social pressure against you began, maybe you even learned to hate anything associated with it, because your entire thought process was in danger of permanently being infringed upon - that's Point A. But then, at some point, it became readily apparent that this was no laughing matter, it wasn't going away, and you no longer considered it okay to joke about - that's Point B. The bad news: It takes certain people longer to get from Point A to Point B than other people - sometimes a lot longer: years or decades longer. The good news: Once you're at Point B, you almost never return to Point A.
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