Kookie215What's your plan for the Zombie Apocalypse?
bitofaramblerI’m of the firm “no magic zombies” camp.
If the zombies aren’t magic, they aren’t going to last long, whichever form of zombie they are. Wait inside a few days, most of them should be dead or immobile.
If a zombie loses blood, they aren’t going to keep walking, their muscles won’t work without blood.
If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.
Dehydration. Organisms need water to function at all, let alone move, and zombies aren’t big on water fountains.
I see zombies as dangerous for a few days, with their senses failing so they can’t track you effectively for the majority of the outbreak, then it’s over.
Anything other than that scenario is a magical zombie, who can move without energy, function without a body, or unrealistically mutate.
I love zombie movies and comics, but for real real, no magic zombies.
ZonetrooperFinally, another “No magic zombies” person!
What are your thoughts on a “28 X Later” style scenario? Where the they’re still subject to injuries/starvation/etc, and the risk is more due to the sheer speed of the infected, ability to ignore pain in the short term, and asymptomatic carriers of the disease?
28 is probably my favorite zombie series, and those zombies are heavily magic.
moving super fast and uncoordinated means rapid dehydration coupled with injuries, blood loss and tissue loss and damage.
their bodies can’t endure that kind of activity for more than a couple hours, especially without water or blood, and they’ll rapidly deteriorate and decompose. there aren’t going to be any zombies milling around inside houses or crawling around in fields 28 weeks later.
asymptomatic carriers are normally accounted for with any new pathogen, and with the rapid deterioration, incapacitation and death of any symptomatic infected, there aren’t going to be major societal collapses.
asymptomatic carriers are going to be an important vector of disease to account for as soon as the disease is recognized, and they’ll have to be separated from the rest of society as a vaccine is developed, but given the rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers and physical transmissibility, a short quarantine period guarantees there aren’t going to be many asymptomatic carriers.
rabies is a good example, because it’s basically 28 days later zombies in real life.
extremely contagious, no cure, carriers become very violent but uncoordinated, they are fast for a very brief period of time but fundamentally incapacitated after a few hours because of dehydration and tissue damage, and then death.
conditions like transmissibility and natural human resistance that make the 28 scenario unrealistic but for the most part, the rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers is the silver bullet here.
they are still great movies and I’m very excited to see 28 years later next month.