How did it get so out of hand?
How did the zombies actually manage to become so numerous? In reality it makes little sense considering they are so slow and stupid. Sure all the cemeteries could be why but still I think I would be scared of a rotting corpse walking around enough to keep my distance. Densely populated cities like New York where you pay less attention to whom you are walking next to, that could be a way it would spread. Really though once news gets out they would be done for. What do you think? Does a apocalypse like this make sense?
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It's a pretty steep curve dude. Every time a zombie kills someone that person joins the zombies, those are tough odds to prevail against.
I think the very first hours are decisive, all out sudden people bite other people there you have already the first infections. Through panic most people are blocked in the cities . People don't know what to do, if the people who are biting others are sick or what, some of them wont kill them immediatly. They don't know they have to aim the brain and the most important they don't know everyone is infected and everyone who dies, turns. So even in safe zones, one dead person is enough to destray such a place. Due to a potential electricity shortage I imagine the news could not spread fast enough to inform everyone
So yes, I think that something like that could spread very, very easily and quickly.
If you're really curious about that aspect then watch the first few episodes of fear the walking dead.
Well humanity had several things going against it in the beginning. First off there was the unknown nature of the disease....imagine you are a member of the CDC...and you are testing all those blood samples against catalogued samples that just happen to be from before the outbreak. It would take you awhile to learn that Hey guess what? We are all infected.
So in between the time the of the start and then the CDC learning the horrible truth....those emergency camps would pack in as many people as they can. People who have lost loved ones...people who are not used to that much excitement. And the military would resort to gunning down excess people trying to get into camps or looters...and boom more walkers. This would happen fast.
Then you have the big cities...imagine sky scrapers full of walkers....Times square filled with walkers. The question would not be how did it get out of hand....no the real question would be how do you deal with 80% of the US population becoming walkers?
Even if a person died by hunger, disease, commited suicide, got killed by someone else or whatever, they turn into walkers anyway.
Yeah the biggest reason is the fact that everyone turns no matter what. Something introduced by Kirkman likely to just explain how things got out of hand so quickly. Technically if people only turned into a zombie after getting bitten by a zombie it would have eventually gotten back under control.
Not if suicide is by gun and headshot XDrotfl
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There is only one thing that makes no sense to me, if everybody is infected, why in the hell does a tiny bite makes you turn?!
Because technically it isn't the bite that turns them into a zombie. The bite just kills them. Something got in their system as well that once they are dead they reanimate as a zombie.
Weird I know and makes little to no since but then again we are talking about a universe where zombies are real so ok to just role with it.
I think the idea behind stories that try to make zombie apocalypse believable is the idea that nobody really came up for the idea in fiction. If someone recently died and got up and started walking around, you wouldnt think they were dead, you would think they were alive but a bit out of it. You also wouldnt expect them to attack you. Likewise, you wouldnt want to use lethal measures to stop them, since theyre still considered people. So all those people trying to restrain dead people get infected and it chains. Pretty soon after that it would get out of control, HOWEVER, every story usually conveniently has the military collapse from desertions, but honestly, that part of it usually gets me, because even if the country went to hell, zombies wouldnt be able to get into military bases from the outside, the military would hold together and even if they couldnt clear out the entire country, safe zones would start to work with quarantining measures to newcomers.
Well, if I think about it in a more realistic way, how many viruses, like rabies and other shitty viruses a walker can carry with him...it makes sense.
I believe that stems from good ol' George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, which generally influenced every zombie story ever written. I dont think its ever elaborated on in the Walking Dead though, just that it will kill you.
In the original Night of the Living Dead, it was never explicitly stated that the bite will kill you, the main character just speculated "there's no telling what kinds of diseases they have." ie. there wasnt a specific infection they gave you, it was more like they were opening a wound and getting their rotting corpse into that wound, giving a very high risk for infectious diseases.
If I remember well (don't blame me if I'm wrong) I was only 3 or 4 years old when I watched "the night of the living dead"
Didn't they go crazy eating peoples brain? But it truly was a zombi virus, no?
As stated in "Starved For Help"(I'm paraphrasing here): "One car crash and a family of five turns into five walkers". In addition to getting bitten, the amount of people who died of natural causes, suicide, murder or car crashes within the first few days must have been staggering. Everyone whose head wasn't destroyed came back. That's why there are so many of them.
I think it's not suppose to make perfect sense since it's just horror fiction entertainment. Really around the world hundreds of cases would of took place where someone discovered that braining the things is what stops them and that however they pass away they become a walker within the first couple months atleast. Might not have a antidote but between the world military and CDC globally I think it would be more manageable than portrayed due to ratings. Something like a nuclear Holocaust is more likely and far more devastating to humanity than a zombie apocalypse. A bad plague due to airborne pathogens would even be more threatening.
You would think that you could just push them over lol.
The only thing thats really stupid about the whole "were all infected" story is that when the hell was everyone infected? It's such a sudden apocalypse. One minute youre on the way to jail, or you're just doing some heroin in a church and then BAMMMMMMMM there's walkers everywhere.
Well that explains where the infection came from.
Dude 1:"Dude it's a walker what do we do!"
Dude 2:"Push it over man!"
Dude 1 pushes walker over and dude 2 runs back ten yards
Dude 2:"Alright now what are we going to do! We have about a minute or two before the walker will make it over to use!"
I feel like people are not this stupid. The point is I feel after a little while people would have it under control. Also a side note is that the walkers slowly decay.
No, from the news footage in the film, they speculated it was something to do with Mars passing close by to Earth... Additionally, it wasnt anything to do with being infected, it was the bodies of the deceased rising back to life. If I remember right, they hadnt even established the destroying the brain trope, though im pretty sure it was for Dawn of the Dead
I never understood how the walkers are able to overpower humans, I understand in herds they can easily kill a person. But by themselves they are literally decaying bodies most likely missing parts as well due to them getting mauled, how are they able to overpower someone by themselves. Also how are they meant to have enough jaw muscles to take chunks out of people especially after a few months or years of decaying. It doesn't make sense that the government can be destroyed by this type of outbreak the walkers are just not powerful enough and it takes too long for them to turn. To be fair though some people turn within minutes but most it takes hours so how are they meant to replenish their numbers at such a rate that army and air force can't deal with them. It's especially absurd factoring the fact that the military were willing to bomb entire suburbs and such which means they wouldn't be holding back.
The way I saw it, zombies are rotting corpses that carry a ton of diseases, a single bite could infect a person with multiple viruses etc. and I'm guessing that whatever is in their system lets certain organs (probably just brains and/or lungs) function despite the viruses but it takes the part of their brain away that lets them make decisions and causes the victims to rely fully on primal instincts - basically just to eat.
I suppose if it was an airborne virus then everyone could be infected? Although even then, it's not exactly the best explanation for why the whole world seems to be filled with zombies and it would be likely that at least a small few people are immune to it.
Undead in old horror movies coming back from the death because some supernatural magic power was ok, I mean it is magic so everything js possible by that way !
In RE it is an evolutionnist super virus so that make sense too, well it does have a certain logic at last !
But in TWD universe it doesn't make sense that undead can still move after long time and that much putrefaction indeed
I think if cold climate can freeze the walkers and disturb their functionality
So does heat and moist
1-You know heat And moist And living micro organisms mean whatever walkers are made of decays and they're gonna be conquered by nature ,say at most after a year or two.
2 -Another thing is for anything to move or make scary noises ,energy is needed and since walkers are not solar panels!!(hopefully!!) they gotta eat.
And after all this time with shortage of fresh meat(people) a majority of them should starve to death
3_ since they're dead means they have no digestive system. So where does everything they eat go??? I mean aren't they supposed to explode after eating so much??
So i think the whole zombie apocalypse is some kinda
"Pseudo science-fiction"
You must be right, I just vaguely remember someone getting caught by some undead and get her/his head cracked open by them.