Unless it’s like Left 4 Dead virus, that thing is airborne and insanely infectious.
Yeah, the bite version just doesn’t play out, but if there’s one thing COVID has done it’s prove we’re toast if zombies can just cough on you.
Side note: absolutely love when zombie survivors are covered in zombie blood and guts, scratched all to hell, wiping black corpse gunk out of their eyes, but it’s fine because they didn’t get bitten.
about that side note, also when survivors cover themselves with zombie guts to mix themselves with zombie hordes, so zombies attack based on smell? based on looks? on behavior?
When you reach that point, zombies actually start feeling sorry for you and don’t want to bite
Prior to Covid I always found the internal conflicts of the humans to being unrealistic. Now, I know if this unlikely event ever happened how much worse it would be.
Mother fuckers literally would hide bites while saying zombies is a woke radical left lib rul hoax.
Real world zombies are very unlikely to be slow
Real world zombies are very unlikely
to be slow
There’s no such thing as “realistic zombies” lol
I didn’t say realistic, but since you want to go there…
Cordyceps and rabies would be likely candidates for potential real world zombies.
If covid taught us anything, the issue with a zombie outbreak will be the hordes of rednecks and Karens failing to take precautions against getting bit, then getting bit, and then going into community safe-havens because of their freedoms, where they’ll then turn and infect others.
Covid really made me go from
“why would anyone ever hide a bite?? They’re already dead, might as well not put the rest in danger. This is unrealistic”
to
“oh yeah no of course they would hide a bite. People could pull up their sleeves to show an infected bite and they would deny it straight to their faces”
A zombie outbreak would end in a few days by itself. In Africa, in a few hours.
In the winter, between the cold destroying nerves and incapacitating movement and corpses getting waterlogged by rain, which would accelerate rot, zombies wouldn’t last long.
In the heat, zombies would be quickly turned into maggot meals by every fly available. Add bloating from the heat and the entire situation would sort itself out quick and dirty.
And let me just add another thought: our main advantage is our brains. Zombie crave for it but are not particularly known for using it. Any zombie trying to attack a wild animal would end up made in pieces. Bears would have a field day. Imagine the carnage by pigs and cows. A single wild boar would be capable of plowing through a horde. At some point, even dogs would turn feral and attack on sight any two legged figure.
Zombies have a unique problem where their only means of reproduction are also their top predator and only food source.
A walking dead version? Sure. 28 days later? Nah. If those fuckers run like that, we’d be done for.
Yes I realize 28 days later technically has no zombies but it’s a more probable scenario to have a virus infect people and make them mad than actual corpses walking around.
Confession: I do not like zombie movies or series. Too much eye candy, too much gore, too much too much.
I do enjoy zombie/apocalypse like books.
28 days later was where the infected acted like rabid mobs, running around in groups?
If that was the case, a virus capable of super charging the aggression mechanism of an organism, two infected individuals would charge each other. If it’s agression based, pure, blind, agression would end itself by being too successful. Even if a groups of individuals somehow managed to maintain some sort of group mentality, any prey would be rendered to pieces. End of the line, no spreading.
Yes that’s 28 days later. But they made them only act aggressively towards noninfected. So supercharged zombies in a way but they’d die after some time without food.
The threat of infection via parasite or latent virus would be scarier than a shambler
How bout a zombie like virus that keeps the tissue alive but causes the conscious to fail avoiding say water but aggressively biting others, usually without killing them so the infection can run its course.
Unless it kept enough mechanisms intact to retain a good amount of self preservation, it would fail. If it avoided water actively, it would die from thirst.
Aggression is not a controlled impulse. It’s blind and does not measure outcome. How much would be enough to ensure transmission? A bite to the arm? Perhaps to the leg? Awfully specific.
I’m in MN…I’m imagining what a herd of bison would do to a zombie horde lmao.
