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yes, we’d all be zombies.
by hprotagonist 7y ago
yes, we’d all be zombies.
- goatlover 7y ago100% death rates don't make for good pandemics and rabies-style viruses are poor spreaders, since you have to bite a victim.
- gpm 7y agoThe 4 billion American chestnut trees would like to disagree with your first assertion. Or at least they would like to if they weren't trees and weren't dead.
- selimthegrim 7y agoThat one Aqua Teen episode is probably a preview of their reaction.
- hprotagonist 7y agowell, a zombie pandemic is a 100% undeath rate... 0% dead but 100% contagious forever after is a practically unbounded r_0.
- goatlover 7y agoIf they are typical zombies who have to spread the contagion via bites and scratches, and are slow and stupid, then my guess is the remaining humans would find it relatively easy to reduce the infection rate below 1. Zombie movies and shows are for drama, not realism. You'd need 28 Days Later or Resident Evil style zombies to overwhelm well armed humans who employ strategy. But this is a fictional scenario we're arguing about.
- hprotagonist 7y agoyeah, we’re whiffing hard enough in real life..