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
Yeah - it's not an epidemic with a virus or viral style of spread. In a sense, it's something that happens to the *dead*, but not the *living*.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Does it affect anyone who's dead, or only people who died after being exposed to what may be some infectious agent?
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Replying to @Random832 @mssilverstein and
only people who died after whatever caused it, the ancient dead don't come back to life, versus the Return of the living dead zombies where the zombifiying gas can resurect any dead tissue, even like bisected dogs
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Yes but it is *universally* after the inciting incident (whatever it was, be it the returning space probe or the government experiment or God cursing the Earth) If it's an infection it infected all humans at once
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Romero, unlike Brooks, wanted the hint of the truly supernatural there Like it seems absurd that God exists and this outcome is his will and yet how else could this happen It's less like a disease and more like a switch flipped and changed the nature of the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
hence the "when there is no more room in hell the dead shall walk the earth" and then Land of the Dead developed teh idea the zombies are an actual species with sentience, something closer to I Am Legend
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