They're coming to get you, Barbara

I am not an authority on Zombies.  But I do know one when I see one.  By one means or another, they have risen from the deathbed or the grave. Several have been spotted in this area.  They include:

• Indifference to Poverty: This Zombie was never truly dead but had been on life support for a while and there was even a war on it once. Once out of fashion, it's back,  stalking the streets again.
• Vote Suppression by Race: As soon as the Supreme Court struck down constitutionality of the Voting Rights act on the basis that it had done its job, the predictable states began discriminately dropping voters from the rolls, requiring IDs for voting, and otherwise enacting laws designed to effectively keep millions of African American adults from voting.
• Saying "Passed Away" instead of "Died" - I thought that that most ostentatiously euphemistic of euphemisms ('Mustn't upset grandmama!') had itself been killed in the social enlightenment. When did people start being publicly fussy and squeamish about death again?
• Scarcity:  Except in far corners of the globe, scarcity used to be under the control of corporations who manipulated it for profits, which we were assured was good for everyone.  Now overuse, overdemand and stark conditions on the planet contribute to an increase in decrease that seems to be acting on its own.  Oil is dwindling. Whole species of edible fish are disappearing.  Cotton crops are failing year after year.  Do you know what used to be as plentiful as grains of sand on the seashore but no longer is?  Sand.
• Disease:  Back from the dead are polio, mumps, rubella, leprosy and bubonic plague.  Some were never really dead, but others were revived by vigilant, ideological resistance to prevention.
•  Fascism: The Greatest Generation defeated it in 1945, but it has returned from the dead.

What can be done?  No one knows.  Zombies are "in" and no one knows how to make them "out" again.