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Xavier_On_High posted...

Anyone who dies turns.

That was actually the original rule implied by John Russo and George Romero in the Night of the Living Dead. In Russos sequel novelization, Return of the Living Dead(not the same as the 80s comedy/horror movie), the survivors of the first disaster realize that people turn when they die and the brain is left intact, so they started driving spikes into the deads heads to keep them dead. The second disaster occurred because there was a bus accident with numerous fatalities and they didnt get to the site in time to stop the resurrections and prevent the spread. In the Walking Dead, these movies/books never existed so thats why they seemed so clueless about what it was that was happening. But, it followed the rule that Russo had established that anyone who died will resurrect.

Now to answer the OP. With the way things are right now, wed probably butcher the response early on. The Doomsdayers would be full military mode, people would be getting killed and bitten due to not being capable of rekilling loved ones, and the government would be gridlocked in a bureaucratic mess. Then wed get to a point where wed get it under control, but the government wants to rehabilitate the zombies and use them for different military reasons. It would be a mess.