Yes, We're Back On That Topic Again
Because I made notes and tracked down information on the internet and you're going to get the benefit, like it or not. Now, allow me to finish off my breakfast pizza and we'll continue. Art!
From 'Zomvivor'
Because the Intro I'm going to intro with is a bit dull pictographically. so I thought I'd start with Wiroj and Ning, who are instrumental in creating the zombie virus - of which more later.
ANYWAY let us meet Christopher Dobbins, one of the Vice Presidents of Stradis Healthcare, a South Canadian company based in Georgia. They were helping to deal with Covid-19 at the time, by shipping out Personal Protective Equipment to various medical institutions, thus an important business doing important things. Art!
Dobbins to top starboard
One of the howlingly ironic consequences of The Bubonic Plaque at Stradis was people getting furloughed, which happened to Dobbins, who did not take it well, him being a VSIP (Very Self-Important Person). What did Mister Ego do? Well, he didn't hang out at the local bar and bend people's ears with how unfair life was. No, he used a secret backdoor he'd constructed on the company's shipping database, which got around his account being suspended - not a matter you can achieve in thirty seconds, implying a lot of malicious forethought - and began deleting or amending shipping data, resulting in PPE either being delayed or not sent at all. Art!
FBI Atlanta HQ
Stradis quickly realised their IT systems had been compromised, which implies some element of internal audit awareness, good for them, and they notified Atlanta FBI, who mobilised a Cyber Task Force under Special Agent Roderick Coffin NO LAUGHING AT THE BACK THERE, which was probably a swifter and bigger response that Ol' Dobby expected.
He pled guilty in July, which is when his initial March intrusions were wearing off, and served a year in prison. Art!
Dobbins was dobbed in
As an additional sickener, he was ordered to pay $221,000 in restitution as financial compensation; no word on any health consequences he created where innocent victims contracted The Bubonic Plaque thanks to no PPE.
So, Stradis were badly affected, but not destroyed. Do you want to see an institution destroyed from the inside? O you do? I'm so glad - Art!
This is the un-named university in 'Zomvivor', which has a staff of hundreds, academic, administrative and janitorial, with a student body of thousands.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
I WARNED YOU
DON'T COME CRYING LATER ON
So, how does the destroying-from-the-inside come about? As mentioned above, Wiroj is trying to create a treatment for comatose patients, with Ning as his sole assistant, keeping things secret because they are, frankly, extremely shady. He's not evil, just misguided. The ten patients he treats - and warns not to inform anyone about their subject status - then become Patient Zeroes across the university campus. Meaning that there is no opportunity to lock down a single site or building. Art!
I'd say that's pretty destroyed. There's 44 of the shambling undead there. What are the consequences for the uninfected survivors hiding out in the cordoned gymnasium or greenhouses? Not good, but they seek to maximise the odds in their favour, since the campus has been sealed off and isolated; one gets the impression that the Thai authorities are waiting for the zombies to wear out and drop instead of forcefully intervening. Art!
Yes, we have shaded into How To Survive In An Undead Infested Environment rather than DIFTI, sue me, it's not as if you have to pay to read this scrivel, is it? Above, you see the student survivors tackling a zombie, knocking it to the floor and bagging it's head to prevent infection by biting. Art!
Not an especially good shot, but it does show that the students are using gloves, including big orange gloves, to handle the zombie they captured, once again to prevent bites. Art!
A mis-step here, as all of them are out in the corridor rather than hiding in the room when four of them are not needed to corral the zombie. Art!
The zombie in question is 'Auntie Jit', whom seems to be a kind of 'pack leader' of the undead hordes, since she was the first to turn and the idea was to isolate her and use her to bait or decoy her animated acolytes. Unfortunately, as they haven't had much practice at restraining a zombie, she starts to get loose. This could be bad, in a confined space with a lot of people in close proximity, so Ek produces his gun and shoots her three times in the head. THROUGH A CUSHION to muffle the sounds, which works. I told you they were intelligent. You might, at a stretch, say that they're destroying the zombie plague from inside the university.
I have more on this topic of DIFIT which we will most definitely come back to in the future. I bet you can hardly wait.
Thank You Algorithm
Those of you with an attention span greater than that of a lobotomised goldfish will recall Conrad posting pictures from the 'Australian Armour And Artillery Museum' of their Panzer 38(t) being taken for a short constitutional across the museum floor. Not bad for an AFV 80 years old at the least.
Well, Youtube's algorithm picked up on this. Art!
WHAT IS IT WITH DOG BUNS! OSCILLOSCOPES!
They're dogging my footsteps on the news feed. Art!
I don't look these up on Google or click on their links, so why am I being haunted by these adverts? Dog Buns AI is causing problems before Skynet arrives, it seems.
More Of Meaty Grinding
Today we look at the Gross Deutchland Motorised Regiment of Nazi Germany at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, June 1941. The GDR was an unusual unit in that it recruited volunteers from across Germany, rather than locally as other units did. They had high recruitment standards, which must have helped when being ground down by endless Sinister attacks. Art!
They went into the Sinister Union 6,000 strong a week after the invasion began, and immediately got involved in heavy fighting; on the 5th of July one company was ambushed and wiped out. As with the rest of the Wehrmacht, there were simply insufficient replacements to keep GD up to strength when it suffered heavy losses at Minsk and Yelnya. By early November one battalion, nominally 1,000 men strong, was down to 359 with only 8 officers. Again, as with the rest of the Wehrmacht, there were no 'quiet' sectors GD could have been rotated to, so it was stuck in the front lines and was almost completely wiped out in the Sinister's December counteroffensive. The few survivors were withdrawn to Orel and that was the end of GDR, as it was recreated as an entire division. Of which more later. I bet you can hardly wait. Art!
Nice snowy helmet camo. Shame about the dark overcoats.
It's well to remember that Herr Schickelgruber, involved in a campaign that was swallowing up endless Teuton formations and destroying them, decided four days after Pearl Harbour to also enlist South Canada as an opponent. So much win.
Oooh, Oooh, I Know - 'On This Day'
That is to say, 22nd February 2026. One hundred and twenty years ago 'HMS Dreadnought' was launched, a battleship so remarkable that she made every other battleship immediately obsolete. We've covered her previously not so long ago so I shan't go over old ground again. Art!
One of GREAT BRITAIN's capital ships
Finally -
Another gem from Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce.
"Electioneer, v: to stand on a platform and scream that Smith is a child of light and Jones is a worm of the dust.'
He's not wrong and it's as true now, if not more so, than it was 150 years ago.
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