Deputy Rick Grimes
SWFTWLF
Deputy Rick Grimes
SWFTWLF
Basically this.
Burning the bodies definitely doesn't help things; most sure-fire way to spread something is to light the bodies on fire and let their ashes and molecules float in the air. The Black Plague taught us that.
Not like that would even matter anyway, considering as how everyone's already infected.
The zombie virus itself is benign, until you die, that is. in which case it starts rapidly affecting and altering the bodily functions of the person who was carrying it.
You don't need to be bitten to have it. Hell, the virus itself is probably in the water they drink, and the food they eat.
Burning the bodies simply solves the problem of where the ******** are we going to put all these corpses.
digging graves takes time
Well I mean on the off-chance that it's in centralized locations and hasn't spread into isolated populations like, say, an island or colder climates where most infectious viruses, bacteria, etc. have a much hard time moving through air, water, food supplies/sources, etc.
It's like the difference between smoking weed on a joint or in a bong - you smoke a joint, you'll probably be the only one getting high; hit a bong, and anyone in the same room as you might get a buzz from the smoke alone.
It's definitely global.
Remember, the infection itself isn't fatal.
People could have been travelling by air for months, spreading it to all corners of the globe before it started, well, y'know, popping up in terms of folks not bein' very good at the whole staying dead thing.
and then once the dead started waking up, there would be riots/mass panics
people would get killed in the streets
and then they'd wake up and kill more people.
It's how s**t like this goes down.
I couldn't recall if it was global, but yes I have a similar ideal as yours. If this virus wasn't engineered and came around natural; I'd say the best place it came from was Asia. Since there's a lot parasite type species that live in that region. If this virus got mixed up in exports from China; China nearly exports everyday items to every country on this planet.
I did suggest in other threads; it could have started out airborne, but was too weak to take over the human immune system, but could easily take over those who are dead and no longer have an immune system. After infecting a dead corpse; it mutates into a stronger virus that can match up to the human immune system.
I have a problem with such a virus starting with one host and going off and biting someone else; because it would be centralized one one continent not the entire global within a matter of weeks. Plus the Defense Forces would likely contain the situation better by sealing off the regions the virus has been sited at.
No, I haven't read any of the comics and I don't want to really jump ahead to figure out what is fully going on.
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