To be fair, COVID-19's lower lethality is exactly why it can't be modeled like a zombie plague. Most zombie plagues are less infectious and kill all hosts, which would fizzle outhttps://twitter.com/malamentary/status/1237793167862202373 …
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I feel like 28 Days Later did a number on creating it too, and of course the Dawn of the Dead remake was the nail in that coffin
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28 Days Later is what Max Brooks calls the "fast zombie" or "crazie" genre, where they clearly are just humans with some kind of rabies The WWZ zombies kind of split the difference - they're Romero zombies but with a quasi-scientific explanation though a virus, but still undead
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Brooks, I think, had strong feelings about Less Is More horror The whole format of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z was making the zombies follow very strict rules that make it seem like stopping them shouldn't be that hard And then the real enemy is 100% human hubris
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yeah it was the beginning of the incredibly regrettable "we're the real zombies!" era that we're only now shaking some of the dust off of
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