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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
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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I think what that's about is the fact that in real life, outside of zombie movie logic, you can easily tell when someone is a zombie (you don't usually catch the "zombie flu" from just being near an unaware carrier) and they wouldn't actually be hard to stop or kill
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Stopping unarmed humans from grabbing you and biting you isn't really that hard a problem, and that's when they're not all stiff and incapable of moving faster than a stroll
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It's why the situation in his movies requires that the living be absolutely overwhelmed by numbers at first (all the recently dead everywhere wake at once) and the living psychologically react really really badly to it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
In fairness, if the dead walked the Earth, I, too, would react poorly.
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