“This is all gonna’ end badly,” says Ronnie. This moment is captured in Jim Jarmusch’s 2019 film, The Dead Don’t Die, by the call-and-response between Officer Ronnie Peterson, played dead-pan by Adam Driver, and his partner, Cliff Robertson, played zombie-pan by Bill Murray. The zombie film holds up a mirror to realities we’d prefer to bury, reflecting deep-rooted racism ( Night of the Living Dead), superficial life-styles ( Dawn of the Dead), environmental degradation ( World War Z), and totalitarian eugenics ( Overlord).īut in our post-truth era, in which story and world have become increasingly difficult to distinguish, the boundary between zombie zeitgeist and collective unconscious has become equally attenuated. The zombie clearly has something to teach us about the virus. Seeking individual security at the cost of the collective good, the most dangerous of enemies is created: our worst possible selves, ready to do whatever is necessary to survive. First encounters with them are marked by denial and complacency, which rapidly escalate into panic and fear of the other. Both zombies and the virus are the living dead, in the sense that they acquire vitality only after they find and infect a host. Zombies and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 disease, have a close if fitful relationship. In a few short weeks, the happy tourists and playful necromancy of wizards and witches have been displaced by the necropolitics of the zombie, in which the power of death and life, the ultimate prerogative of the sovereign state, has been seriously challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the Quad is a ghost town, depopulated by the novel coronavirus, making it easy to spot the girl taking a selfie. She stands out in her solitude but also by her garb: black Doc Martens, black jeans, black t-shirt, accessorized by black N95 mask. When she turns there is a jolt of déjà vu, a psychic stutter-step like the glitch in the matrix that signals something bad is about to go down. On her shirt front is a meme that loops from WWII to “The Walking Dead” to the eternal now, of life and death in the time of coronavirus. It reads: “Keep Calm and Get Behind the Guy with the Crossbow.” Stay tuned for more information at any given day at the University of Sydney in Australia, Chinese visitors spill out of tour buses to make their way up the hill to the main Quadrangle, an elegant Gothic Revival structure of sandstone, leaded glass windows, and whimsical gargoyles. Enamored with Harry Potter, the tourists hold smart phones aloft to capture images of the building their guides claim to have inspired Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. No one bothers to correct them. Each year, the zombies take over downtown Muskegon in support of becoming a smoke-free generation. This KnowSmoke Zombie Walk was supported by 20 different organizations, and over 50 volunteer humans made the event possible. This year’s event had help from the Hackley Community Care Teen Health Center’s Youth Advisory Committee (YAC), who planned and implemented the walk, and Mona Shores High School, who developed promotional videos shared in the community. As the horde descended upon Hackley Park, they were educated and entertained with educational skits, music, and dancing.
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Walker Arena where participants could take advantage of classes on how to walk and dance like a zombie and have zombie makeup applied. The fourth annual event promoted the next smoke-free generation message while highlighting the health risks of addiction and tobacco use. The 2016 KnowSmoke Zombie Walk was a tremendous success with over 230 participants walking through downtown Muskegon on Saturday, October 15th. Over 200 Zombies Walk to Raise Awareness About the Dangers of Tobacco Use
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