Plague of the Living Dead

The authorities in Sierra Leone are declaring their recent weekend 'lock down', supposedly to combat the spread of Ebola, a success.  I say 'supposedly', because it is quite obviously more evidence that what's happening in West Africa is actually the start of the zombie apocalypse.  I ask you, what better way of dealing with the living dead is there than declaring that the entire civilian population are confined to their homes for forty eight hours?  Quite obviously, under such circumstances, the authorities can safely assume that anyone out on the streets during this period is a zombie and mow them down in a hail of bullets before decapitating and incinerating them.  After all, as zombies are entirely without the power of reason or free will, they wouldn't understand any of the broadcasts and posters telling them to stay inside.

Of course, there's no guarantee that this tactic will stop the spread of the zombies completely.  In fact, it could even help create more, if some of the families forced to remain in their homes already included at least one member who was already 'infected' and 'on the turn', then the 'lock down' would create the ideal conditions for them to 'infect' the rest of the group.  With the authorities focusing on destroying the zombies out on the streets, then these new zombies would go undetected, emerging only once the 'lock down' was lifted and everyone had been lured into a false sense of security.  Consequently, I don't think that we should feel confident that the authorities have got this zombie outbreak under control, just because it is so far confined to West Africa is no reason for complacency.  Unless Italian zombie movies have lied to me, it is all too easy for the infection to spread - all it takes are a few zombified stowaways or crewmembers on freighters calling at West African ports for the zombie apocalypse to go global.   You've been warned!