Status Updates From World War Z: An Oral Histor...

Paki? Really?

Force appropriate response - never break the front, and don’t stop if not a big risk
Hard to know if an area was cleared in the winter.
Obsessed with killing.
Everyone has a role to play, but it’s no one’s fault.
Part of regular life to just know how to protect. Like Covid?
Compare to “no one survived the holocaust”
Whales?!

Russia gonna Russia
1/10 officers did by suicide, General concerned about souls
“Purification” campaign to stop people having to take their own lives
Salt water should break down, as should pressure. Unclear why didn’t work
Too many refugees and too little order to keep out the infection
President named himself head of church.

Total war - only Zac achieved it, no shared brain but all committed
Recharge teams
Training dogs - like Israelis, but then part of normal training regimen, especially since dead just in the air
K9s learn to be their own organizers, escort dogs

This is such a random book I chose off my bookshelf as I’m purging and getting donations together but oh no, I think I’m in for a wild ride??
“Isn’t the human factor [in historical report] what connects us so deeply to our past?…By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may lead us one day to repeat it?” 😳