How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Prep
If you're looking for lessons on how to be prepared for a crisis, you could do worse than to watch 28 Days Later, the 2002 cult zombie thriller, or its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later (a third installment is scheduled for later this month). Here are my movie notes:
The characters in 28 Days Later are, of course, battling a society-ending viral epidemic of the undead, which is unlikely. But that doesn't mean the lessons aren't pertinent.
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