Well, this may be only the second oddest publicity-garnering move this week but it’s just as successful. The Center for Disease Control has posted an article instructing readers on how they can be prepared for a zombie apocalypse. You know, with the brain eating and the shuffling and stuff. For reals. And, apparently, there are a whole lot of people looking for this information (or just like zombies), because the article has been loading at a snail’s pace all day. I guess we should be glad people are going to be prepared?

Ok, now before someone goes crazy and starts calling for the CDC’s funding to be pulled or something, it should be noted that this article’s basically a joke. You can tell that because the author says her favorite zombie movie is Resident Evil (come on, seriously?). More than that, it’s actually a sneaky way to secretly get people to learn about actual disease outbreaks with the article beginning with the promise that “you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.” So basically it’s like those videos with that use adorable cartoons to teach kids about not smoking weed. That being said, it’s still pretty funny.

So what should we do when the walking dead or zombies or ghouls or Michele Bachmann or whatever you want to call them start walking the earth?

From the CDC: