True! Although zombie plagues are of course complicated by killing but not actually killing their hosts...
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Replying to @malamentary
I mean, quarantine would be 100% effective, the zombies would starve
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @malamentary
That assumes the zombies CAN starve or that they couldn't get past the quarantine
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @malamentary
All I know is that actual epidemiologists have modeled Romero zombies and determined they wouldn't be a very big threat outside of wherever the outbreak started
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @malamentary
not sure you mean Romero zombies, they're the case where ANYONE who dies, regardless of situation, comes back as the walking dead, there wouldn't be a "patient zero" in that patient zero would be global
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @malamentary
Er, ok. The "if you get bit you become one after a short incubation period then eat brains" type
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The brain eaters are Russo zombies (from the trashy Return of the Living Dead knockoff series), created by a chemical rather than contagion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
iZombie zombies are ironically pretty close to Russo zombies (and I guess turn into Romero zombies in their "failed state" of not getting brains for too long)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Romero zombies killed you if they bit you but you still turned if you died any other way The creator of The Walking Dead, who follows Romero rules closely, said he always headcanoned that zombie bites were nothing special and they kill you through "normal" sepsis and germs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
That's not really how it looks in actual practice, with zombie bites being really quickly and inevitably fatal, but whatever It was Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z that codified the "infection only" zombie
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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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