I have seen how governments react to medical emergencies and can assure you they wouldn't have a fricking clue what to do and whatever they decided on would be wrong
COVID wasn't turning people into brain eating zombies and governments still had to pretend to care about citizens. If the solution is bomb them and don't let them leave with zero repercussions they got this.
Realistically, if people are being turned into zombies, it will be from yet another transmisible invisible factor like a virus, a transmissible cancer or some prion shit.
>Realistically, if people are being turned into zombies,
>I'll explain if you don;t know what the collective subconscious is go look it up but that's just one blind man feeling the elephants leg. We are as much part of nature as the wind, the weather, bacteria or a virus and we do not control our behaviour. When a crowd panics its not conscious. When a mob lynches someone its not conscious, its deeper. There are many great scholars that discuss aspects but the fact is that the violence within us within all of us is there as an evolutionary response, as lemmings migrate, or birds swarm and migrate or locusts swarm, so do we respond to changes in environment (particularly feeling psychologically overwhelmed by social contact) and we become very irrational, very violent. We are the virus and the virus was always in us. where do you think Ukraine or WW1, WW2 or crucifixion or serial kills come from? There were mountains of bodies left on the field at waterloo. We don;t swarm we murder and we are born with this in us waiting like the locusts eggs for the right stimuli to bring it forth AND WE KNOW we know when it is coming. Jungs patients just before ww1 caused him to write that Europe was going to be drowned in blood when no one was predicting ww1 because of what was pouring from their subconscious. 20 years ago an obsession with not just zombies but an apocalyptic Armageddon swept our global culture. That's right an apocalypse of death filled with ultra violence and ragged starving rotting in coherent walking corpses. I have seen my nation change utterly in those 20 years and stagger into the tangible cusp of ultra violence and you can feel it, feel it in your blood too because it is in all of us.
COVID wasn't turning people into brain eating zombies and governments still had to pretend to care about citizens. If the solution is bomb them and don't let them leave with zero repercussions they got this.
>NOOOO YOU CANNOT BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF INFECTED POPULATIONS, YOU'RE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MINORITIES >NOOOOO YOU CAN'T FORCE EVERYONE INTO THEIR HOMES, YOU ARE VIOLATING OUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS >NOOOOO YOU CANNOT CLOSE DOWN PORTS AND AIRPORTS, OUR ECONOMY WILL SUFFER FROM IT >NOOOO YOU CANT FORCE ME TO WEAR BASIC PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. THEY DON'T WORK ANYWAYS, YOU'RE MAKING ME BREATHE MY OWN CO2, I FEEL SO LIGHT HEADED ALREADY >NOOOOO YOU CANNOT FORCE PEOPLE TO USE VACCINES, YOU HAVENT TESTED THEM YET, YOU WILL KILL US ALL FROM SIDE EFFECTS INSTEAD OF DYING FROM THE OUTBREAK
>YOU SHOULD GO OUTSIDE, GET SOME FRESH AIR, DRINK 5 GALLONS OF WATER AND EXPOSE TO THE BIOHAZARD, WE ARE PROTECTED BY HERD IMMUNITY. TRUST THE SCIENCE!
Only if it's in the middle east or africa. Neolib governments would never bomb an important trading partner, regardless of the consequences. They only care that the spice must flow.
It really depends on the scope of the initial outbreak and the symptoms. If a group of shambling zombies popped out of a graveyard the situation would be over within a day and the media would probably be able to cover it up as a drug related incident.
i just hate zombies. they work well as this terror that instantly pops up and wreaks a bunch of havok on society. They don't work well as this years to decades long fantasy bullshit such as TWD and other zombie fiction which has them be literally impossible magical creatures that persist forever in perpetuity not requiring energy input, not requiring water, not requiring a functional vascular system to move energy throughout the body. Not even requiring bones or a nervous system since you can sever a head and the mouth and eyes still move, since you can stab them in the heart and yet somehow nutrients are delivered to the muscles and organs to move the body around. Somehow they can coordinate and move over very difficult terrain as well, walk up hills, move through forests or debris-strewn city streets without dropping a step. I just fricking hate zombies.
At least the last of us had some kind of fungi type thing completely taking over the body and turning it into a gigantic mobile fungus, but even that is moronic but I like how the infected progress from the initial stages where they still appear human, to the much older ones that become literal walking fungus where the human parts are all but gone replaced by fungi.
Zombies as a concept for reasons stated and also, some rotting dead person shambling along at quarter speed? Go up a few steps and pick them off since they won't be able to walk up the steps (why would they? How would they know to lift their legs up, balance themselves, then calculate instantly the forward momentum and target of the next stop? How would they ever climb over, like, a railing or balcony? It would be like a toddler trying to walk up steps for the first time). Or just go inside and lock your door. In short, zombies are a dumb concept and it would be more a macabre incident than = the apocalypse.
What are you talking about? Never seen many or even one zombie apocalypse film or show where the virus is airborne. How would that work in a movie? Someone wears a containment suit 24/7? We're talking zombies here, dummy. Don't just invent a zombie virus that's airborne that has I think never or rarely been depicted on-screen. It's almost 100% from contact with an infected zombie, which would be easy to avoid for reasons.
>Or just go inside and lock your door.
Okay, a few hours later there are 40 zombies all putting their weight on the door. In a few more hours it will be 100. How long's your door gonna hold?
A steel door? Very, very long. In fact as the crowd gets bigger the zombies closer to the door would start getting crushed to death and form a natural corpse shield.
How would any of them even know you're in there? Doubt their olfactory senses are heightened. Why would they know what a door is? Or a house? Or seek anyone inside? Zombies would shuffle along, kill a few people in a crowded area while the public is unaware, then be eradicated pretty easily if people, you know, just blocked their path or access slightly. Again: a few stairs or improvised barrier stops them almost immediately. It would never become a large-scale problem. Weird incident, yes. Maybe people are more cautious in open places like forests afterwards (doubtful; people would likely make it a sport to hunt down every stray zombie). Yeah, zombies are a stupid idea for apocalyptic horror.
>zombie fiction which has them be literally impossible magical creatures that persist forever in perpetuity not requiring energy input, not requiring water, not requiring a functional vascular system to move energy throughout the body. Not even requiring bones or a nervous system since you can sever a head and the mouth and eyes still move, since you can stab them in the heart and yet somehow nutrients are delivered to the muscles and organs to move the body around. Somehow they can coordinate and move over very difficult terrain as well, walk up hills, move through forests or debris-strewn city streets without dropping a step
That's why they should be magic. Why has nobody made some badass movie about an evil necromancer. Shit could be terrifying if done properly. Skeletons screaming with no lungs... You break their bones and they just gain a new joint to animate
The original zombie movies WERE magic, the zombies just spontaneously rose up from the ground and attacked the living but were usually dealt with rather quickly.
Dead things coming back to life is scary, cause dead things are supposed to stay dead. Seeing rotting corpses shambling around attacking people is scary.
But trying to reason out how shambling corpses could take over the world is just moronic.
The original also makes sense best in its own way using the "magic" angle: the zombies are mindless and stupid and if I remember it was radiation from space that awoke the dead. But by the end of Night of the Living Dead, it seemed like the authorities had a pretty good handle on the situation. One night of surprise disaster then easily defeating a weak, brainless, slow enemy.
A zombie apocalypse would be easy to contain because incubation time is so fast. An entire city could easily be infected really fast, but then the zombies couldn't spread outside that area. They can't get on planes and travel undetected and they can't really run between large population centers. So the government just has to setup a perimeter around the city and warn people in nearby towns to stay indoors and away from windows. They'd probably resort to firebombing the outbreak area pretty fast.
None of a zombie's true virus lore and information on how the infection spreads matters because zombie's number one transmission method is morons. It's like homosexuality and sexual abuse. Sure, maybe it could have spread a little normally, but really this shit keeps happening because morons keep fricking up.
My problem is "slow zombies". They walk slower than my grandma. What the frick is so scary and hard about that? >oh no, a slow zombie. I guess I better get up and walk down the street.
The Strain kinda did this with The Master. All low level strigoi were mindless and zombie-like, but he would occasionally mind control some to hasten the outbreak, accomplish his goals, or even spare human collaborators from being infected. Probably the most fricked up tactic was having some fresh infected return to a police precinct as suicide bombers to infect a room full of people.
I welcome a zombie apocalypse. It would only really be an issue for warm southern countries and I think we all know who lives in those. If your homeland has a cold winter zombies are not a problem. Zombies will cleanse the world.
Post-mortem zombies would never work because rigormortis would not allow them to move their bodies at all. Virus-infected zombies would not work long-term, because the virus would eventually kill its host, thus killing the virus and ending the zombie plague. Magic zombies? Not even gonna bother with that one.
The only way for zombies to work is if the virus that turns people into zombies lays dormant for a long time on people, and it starts showing symptoms only when most of the planet is already infected
How come no zombie franchise has done this, ever?
Its always just >uhhh all the world governments just got.. le overrun by zombies somehow
Because movies have to tell the audience what things are. Or else every single possible interpretation is valid. Are you that 12-year old earlier in this thread who stupidly tried to force that zombie outbreaks are airborne because...you wanted it to be that way, despite the cause of infection in like 99% of all zombie infection comes from direct physical contact with a zombie? Stop making shit up that's not canon and is just junk logic what ifs.
I'll explain if you don;t know what the collective subconscious is go look it up but that's just one blind man feeling the elephants leg. We are as much part of nature as the wind, the weather, bacteria or a virus and we do not control our behaviour. When a crowd panics its not conscious. When a mob lynches someone its not conscious, its deeper. There are many great scholars that discuss aspects but the fact is that the violence within us within all of us is there as an evolutionary response, as lemmings migrate, or birds swarm and migrate or locusts swarm, so do we respond to changes in environment (particularly feeling psychologically overwhelmed by social contact) and we become very irrational, very violent. We are the virus and the virus was always in us. where do you think Ukraine or WW1, WW2 or crucifixion or serial kills come from? There were mountains of bodies left on the field at waterloo. We don;t swarm we murder and we are born with this in us waiting like the locusts eggs for the right stimuli to bring it forth AND WE KNOW we know when it is coming. Jungs patients just before ww1 caused him to write that Europe was going to be drowned in blood when no one was predicting ww1 because of what was pouring from their subconscious. 20 years ago an obsession with not just zombies but an apocalyptic Armageddon swept our global culture. That's right an apocalypse of death filled with ultra violence and ragged starving rotting in coherent walking corpses. I have seen my nation change utterly in those 20 years and stagger into the tangible cusp of ultra violence and you can feel it, feel it in your blood too because it is in all of us.
>I'll explain if you don;t know what the collective subconscious is go look it up but that's just one blind man feeling the elephants leg. We are as much part of nature as the wind, the weather, bacteria or a virus and we do not control our behaviour. When a crowd panics its not conscious. When a mob lynches someone its not conscious, its deeper. There are many great scholars that discuss aspects but the fact is that the violence within us within all of us is there as an evolutionary response, as lemmings migrate, or birds swarm and migrate or locusts swarm, so do we respond to changes in environment (particularly feeling psychologically overwhelmed by social contact) and we become very irrational, very violent. We are the virus and the virus was always in us. where do you think Ukraine or WW1, WW2 or crucifixion or serial kills come from? There were mountains of bodies left on the field at waterloo. We don;t swarm we murder and we are born with this in us waiting like the locusts eggs for the right stimuli to bring it forth AND WE KNOW we know when it is coming. Jungs patients just before ww1 caused him to write that Europe was going to be drowned in blood when no one was predicting ww1 because of what was pouring from their subconscious. 20 years ago an obsession with not just zombies but an apocalyptic Armageddon swept our global culture. That's right an apocalypse of death filled with ultra violence and ragged starving rotting in coherent walking corpses. I have seen my nation change utterly in those 20 years and stagger into the tangible cusp of ultra violence and you can feel it, feel it in your blood too because it is in all of us.
You have to come up with all kinds of reasons for why normal decomposition stops or halts at arbitrary points. Either the zombies are dead and they decay like any other dead flesh, or else they're preserved magically at some kind of semi-dead state.
It takes normal decomposition ~11 months to turn a body into bones and hair and many bodies are just cremated (Japan cremates 90% of their dead)
Having crunched the numbers, it would be as if the state of Idaho dropped all their weapons, spread themselves out across the lower 48 and then began attacking the population.
A fight like that would take maybe a week or 10 days to stop.
It would be days, if that. Imagine: the dead arise. They come in many shapes an forms, but majority are rapidly decomposing. You may have some recently dead or people freshly infected, but like 85% are literal ghouls who would likely awaken in a coffin 6 feet under and unable to escape as their foresrms and legs break and turn to dust trying to escape. You'd have muffled screams from graveyards that would necessitate exhumation just to blow their brains out so the moans from underground would stop. The freshly dead would fare little better: it would be a wave of people literally so damaged they already died from causes. Oh no! The 80-year old that died yesterday is shuffling towards me! Better throw a lawn chair at it, thus disabling it long enough to blow its brains out! And more muffled moans of cadavers trapped in drawers and rooms and literally anywhere that isn't in the open public. Zombies are stupid at a conceptual level.
they would just bomb the shit out where it started
I have seen how governments react to medical emergencies and can assure you they wouldn't have a fricking clue what to do and whatever they decided on would be wrong
While you can't see a virus until it hits, you would be able to see a zombie crawling slowly.
Realistically, if people are being turned into zombies, it will be from yet another transmisible invisible factor like a virus, a transmissible cancer or some prion shit.
>Realistically, if people are being turned into zombies,
>We are the virus and the virus was always in us.
COVID wasn't turning people into brain eating zombies and governments still had to pretend to care about citizens. If the solution is bomb them and don't let them leave with zero repercussions they got this.
Americans have a 60% gun ownership rate. The population would have it solved long before the government got off their asses.
>NOOOO YOU CANNOT BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF INFECTED POPULATIONS, YOU'RE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MINORITIES
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T FORCE EVERYONE INTO THEIR HOMES, YOU ARE VIOLATING OUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
>NOOOOO YOU CANNOT CLOSE DOWN PORTS AND AIRPORTS, OUR ECONOMY WILL SUFFER FROM IT
>NOOOO YOU CANT FORCE ME TO WEAR BASIC PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. THEY DON'T WORK ANYWAYS, YOU'RE MAKING ME BREATHE MY OWN CO2, I FEEL SO LIGHT HEADED ALREADY
>NOOOOO YOU CANNOT FORCE PEOPLE TO USE VACCINES, YOU HAVENT TESTED THEM YET, YOU WILL KILL US ALL FROM SIDE EFFECTS INSTEAD OF DYING FROM THE OUTBREAK
>YOU SHOULD GO OUTSIDE, GET SOME FRESH AIR, DRINK 5 GALLONS OF WATER AND EXPOSE TO THE BIOHAZARD, WE ARE PROTECTED BY HERD IMMUNITY. TRUST THE SCIENCE!
Only if it's in the middle east or africa. Neolib governments would never bomb an important trading partner, regardless of the consequences. They only care that the spice must flow.
Zombie lives matter
Zombies with gaping wounds are kinda stupid as that's not how biology works.
So are infected zombies that can somehow run.
It really depends on the scope of the initial outbreak and the symptoms. If a group of shambling zombies popped out of a graveyard the situation would be over within a day and the media would probably be able to cover it up as a drug related incident.
i just hate zombies. they work well as this terror that instantly pops up and wreaks a bunch of havok on society. They don't work well as this years to decades long fantasy bullshit such as TWD and other zombie fiction which has them be literally impossible magical creatures that persist forever in perpetuity not requiring energy input, not requiring water, not requiring a functional vascular system to move energy throughout the body. Not even requiring bones or a nervous system since you can sever a head and the mouth and eyes still move, since you can stab them in the heart and yet somehow nutrients are delivered to the muscles and organs to move the body around. Somehow they can coordinate and move over very difficult terrain as well, walk up hills, move through forests or debris-strewn city streets without dropping a step. I just fricking hate zombies.
At least the last of us had some kind of fungi type thing completely taking over the body and turning it into a gigantic mobile fungus, but even that is moronic but I like how the infected progress from the initial stages where they still appear human, to the much older ones that become literal walking fungus where the human parts are all but gone replaced by fungi.
I'll take magic bullshit zombies over "realistic" ones that make just as little sense. Also Splinter did fungus zombies better than Last of Us.
Zombies as a concept for reasons stated and also, some rotting dead person shambling along at quarter speed? Go up a few steps and pick them off since they won't be able to walk up the steps (why would they? How would they know to lift their legs up, balance themselves, then calculate instantly the forward momentum and target of the next stop? How would they ever climb over, like, a railing or balcony? It would be like a toddler trying to walk up steps for the first time). Or just go inside and lock your door. In short, zombies are a dumb concept and it would be more a macabre incident than = the apocalypse.
Virus is airborne, seethe
What are you talking about? Never seen many or even one zombie apocalypse film or show where the virus is airborne. How would that work in a movie? Someone wears a containment suit 24/7? We're talking zombies here, dummy. Don't just invent a zombie virus that's airborne that has I think never or rarely been depicted on-screen. It's almost 100% from contact with an infected zombie, which would be easy to avoid for reasons.
Don't care, the virus is airborne, deal with it.
Lol I don't have to deal with your fabricated cope so you can feel like you "won." Now that is sad.
>had to put won in quotes because he lost
Seething
>replies seething to pathetically try covering up their seething
Take the L, dude. Getting sad now.
>Or just go inside and lock your door.
Okay, a few hours later there are 40 zombies all putting their weight on the door. In a few more hours it will be 100. How long's your door gonna hold?
A steel door? Very, very long. In fact as the crowd gets bigger the zombies closer to the door would start getting crushed to death and form a natural corpse shield.
How would any of them even know you're in there? Doubt their olfactory senses are heightened. Why would they know what a door is? Or a house? Or seek anyone inside? Zombies would shuffle along, kill a few people in a crowded area while the public is unaware, then be eradicated pretty easily if people, you know, just blocked their path or access slightly. Again: a few stairs or improvised barrier stops them almost immediately. It would never become a large-scale problem. Weird incident, yes. Maybe people are more cautious in open places like forests afterwards (doubtful; people would likely make it a sport to hunt down every stray zombie). Yeah, zombies are a stupid idea for apocalyptic horror.
>zombie fiction which has them be literally impossible magical creatures that persist forever in perpetuity not requiring energy input, not requiring water, not requiring a functional vascular system to move energy throughout the body. Not even requiring bones or a nervous system since you can sever a head and the mouth and eyes still move, since you can stab them in the heart and yet somehow nutrients are delivered to the muscles and organs to move the body around. Somehow they can coordinate and move over very difficult terrain as well, walk up hills, move through forests or debris-strewn city streets without dropping a step
That's why they should be magic. Why has nobody made some badass movie about an evil necromancer. Shit could be terrifying if done properly. Skeletons screaming with no lungs... You break their bones and they just gain a new joint to animate
The original zombie movies WERE magic, the zombies just spontaneously rose up from the ground and attacked the living but were usually dealt with rather quickly.
Dead things coming back to life is scary, cause dead things are supposed to stay dead. Seeing rotting corpses shambling around attacking people is scary.
But trying to reason out how shambling corpses could take over the world is just moronic.
The original also makes sense best in its own way using the "magic" angle: the zombies are mindless and stupid and if I remember it was radiation from space that awoke the dead. But by the end of Night of the Living Dead, it seemed like the authorities had a pretty good handle on the situation. One night of surprise disaster then easily defeating a weak, brainless, slow enemy.
A zombie apocalypse would be easy to contain because incubation time is so fast. An entire city could easily be infected really fast, but then the zombies couldn't spread outside that area. They can't get on planes and travel undetected and they can't really run between large population centers. So the government just has to setup a perimeter around the city and warn people in nearby towns to stay indoors and away from windows. They'd probably resort to firebombing the outbreak area pretty fast.
homie pls
None of a zombie's true virus lore and information on how the infection spreads matters because zombie's number one transmission method is morons. It's like homosexuality and sexual abuse. Sure, maybe it could have spread a little normally, but really this shit keeps happening because morons keep fricking up.
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My problem is "slow zombies". They walk slower than my grandma. What the frick is so scary and hard about that?
>oh no, a slow zombie. I guess I better get up and walk down the street.
Zombies are stupid unless, and only unless, they are controlled by a necromancer.
>no more voodoo zombies because heckin racism
Fricking c**ts
The Strain kinda did this with The Master. All low level strigoi were mindless and zombie-like, but he would occasionally mind control some to hasten the outbreak, accomplish his goals, or even spare human collaborators from being infected. Probably the most fricked up tactic was having some fresh infected return to a police precinct as suicide bombers to infect a room full of people.
Thank god we didn't elect Hillary
I welcome a zombie apocalypse. It would only really be an issue for warm southern countries and I think we all know who lives in those. If your homeland has a cold winter zombies are not a problem. Zombies will cleanse the world.
Post-mortem zombies would never work because rigormortis would not allow them to move their bodies at all. Virus-infected zombies would not work long-term, because the virus would eventually kill its host, thus killing the virus and ending the zombie plague. Magic zombies? Not even gonna bother with that one.
Hell is full zombies would not suffer from predation of any sort. Checkmate.
You mean they're fiction? Whoa
I feel like a zombie apocalypse would be contained extremely easily. That's unless the disease has a long incubation period and/or is airborne.
>virus infects your birds too
Nothing personnel, kid
Did you know 99% of african vultures died in the last decade due to river failure caused by cattle medicine
I'd like a dose of that cow medicine if you know what I mean.
[citation needed]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/04/birds-of-prey-in-africa-experiencing-population-collapse-study-finds-aoe
Piss off
You're thinking of Indian vultures, moron.
She looks very unfortunate nude
Weird, my drunk, Japanese dad also died of river failure.
(you)
heh
Which is why there is always a story about the one zombie virus immune person.
The only way for zombies to work is if the virus that turns people into zombies lays dormant for a long time on people, and it starts showing symptoms only when most of the planet is already infected
How come no zombie franchise has done this, ever?
Its always just
>uhhh all the world governments just got.. le overrun by zombies somehow
>How come no zombie franchise has done this, ever?
go watch twd
what makes you think this isn't what happens in zombie movies?
Because movies have to tell the audience what things are. Or else every single possible interpretation is valid. Are you that 12-year old earlier in this thread who stupidly tried to force that zombie outbreaks are airborne because...you wanted it to be that way, despite the cause of infection in like 99% of all zombie infection comes from direct physical contact with a zombie? Stop making shit up that's not canon and is just junk logic what ifs.
>Zombie apocalypses
crawl from our collective subconscious as a prophetic omen and are very real watch
>collective subconscious
It's literally how the apocalypse is described Revelation 9:6.
I'll explain if you don;t know what the collective subconscious is go look it up but that's just one blind man feeling the elephants leg. We are as much part of nature as the wind, the weather, bacteria or a virus and we do not control our behaviour. When a crowd panics its not conscious. When a mob lynches someone its not conscious, its deeper. There are many great scholars that discuss aspects but the fact is that the violence within us within all of us is there as an evolutionary response, as lemmings migrate, or birds swarm and migrate or locusts swarm, so do we respond to changes in environment (particularly feeling psychologically overwhelmed by social contact) and we become very irrational, very violent. We are the virus and the virus was always in us. where do you think Ukraine or WW1, WW2 or crucifixion or serial kills come from? There were mountains of bodies left on the field at waterloo. We don;t swarm we murder and we are born with this in us waiting like the locusts eggs for the right stimuli to bring it forth AND WE KNOW we know when it is coming. Jungs patients just before ww1 caused him to write that Europe was going to be drowned in blood when no one was predicting ww1 because of what was pouring from their subconscious. 20 years ago an obsession with not just zombies but an apocalyptic Armageddon swept our global culture. That's right an apocalypse of death filled with ultra violence and ragged starving rotting in coherent walking corpses. I have seen my nation change utterly in those 20 years and stagger into the tangible cusp of ultra violence and you can feel it, feel it in your blood too because it is in all of us.
>I'll explain if you don;t know what the collective subconscious is go look it up but that's just one blind man feeling the elephants leg. We are as much part of nature as the wind, the weather, bacteria or a virus and we do not control our behaviour. When a crowd panics its not conscious. When a mob lynches someone its not conscious, its deeper. There are many great scholars that discuss aspects but the fact is that the violence within us within all of us is there as an evolutionary response, as lemmings migrate, or birds swarm and migrate or locusts swarm, so do we respond to changes in environment (particularly feeling psychologically overwhelmed by social contact) and we become very irrational, very violent. We are the virus and the virus was always in us. where do you think Ukraine or WW1, WW2 or crucifixion or serial kills come from? There were mountains of bodies left on the field at waterloo. We don;t swarm we murder and we are born with this in us waiting like the locusts eggs for the right stimuli to bring it forth AND WE KNOW we know when it is coming. Jungs patients just before ww1 caused him to write that Europe was going to be drowned in blood when no one was predicting ww1 because of what was pouring from their subconscious. 20 years ago an obsession with not just zombies but an apocalyptic Armageddon swept our global culture. That's right an apocalypse of death filled with ultra violence and ragged starving rotting in coherent walking corpses. I have seen my nation change utterly in those 20 years and stagger into the tangible cusp of ultra violence and you can feel it, feel it in your blood too because it is in all of us.
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Fans of it are pretty stupid too. Zombies aren't creative.
You have to come up with all kinds of reasons for why normal decomposition stops or halts at arbitrary points. Either the zombies are dead and they decay like any other dead flesh, or else they're preserved magically at some kind of semi-dead state.
Zombiwe apocalypses work because they are divine punishment via supernatural powers.
It takes normal decomposition ~11 months to turn a body into bones and hair and many bodies are just cremated (Japan cremates 90% of their dead)
Having crunched the numbers, it would be as if the state of Idaho dropped all their weapons, spread themselves out across the lower 48 and then began attacking the population.
A fight like that would take maybe a week or 10 days to stop.
It would be days, if that. Imagine: the dead arise. They come in many shapes an forms, but majority are rapidly decomposing. You may have some recently dead or people freshly infected, but like 85% are literal ghouls who would likely awaken in a coffin 6 feet under and unable to escape as their foresrms and legs break and turn to dust trying to escape. You'd have muffled screams from graveyards that would necessitate exhumation just to blow their brains out so the moans from underground would stop. The freshly dead would fare little better: it would be a wave of people literally so damaged they already died from causes. Oh no! The 80-year old that died yesterday is shuffling towards me! Better throw a lawn chair at it, thus disabling it long enough to blow its brains out! And more muffled moans of cadavers trapped in drawers and rooms and literally anywhere that isn't in the open public. Zombies are stupid at a conceptual level.