Current Events > Its time to settle this once and for all. Would a Zombie virus have been better?

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OffTempo
05/10/20 1:27:19 PM
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Covid-19 or Zombies??


If it were Zombies they'd abide by these rules:
  1. Slow moving regularly but if they catch wind of a human or humans they became agile, able to run and jump.
  2. They are not able to do things like climb or open doors.
  3. They infect others by biting/scratching or if a zombie is in water that water is now infected. Standard infection rules pretty much.
  4. Headshots kill! Of course if you're able to render the zombie immobile enough so it wouldn't be much of a threat you'd be in the clear as well. Setting on fire/acid would also be work to make sure they cannot come back ever.
  5. Bodies deteriorate! The natural deterioration cycle is in play here.
  6. EVERYONE has the virus. If you were to die of natural causes, you too would turn into a zombie.
If you pick zombies the world reverts back to before Covid-19 started and the cases would pop up in similar fashion to Covid-19 perhaps at a slower rate to make things a bit more fair. Which do you take?

EDIT: The cure to the virus will come out a week and a half before the cure to Covid-19 comes out. So whenever that happens just imagine it a week and a half before.

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Smashingpmkns
05/10/20 1:28:28 PM
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Hell no.
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jackgunney
05/10/20 1:30:09 PM
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OffTempo posted...
Bodies deteriorate! The natural deterioration cycle is in play here.
The only thing pro of the zombie case. Still not worth it.

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Alteres
05/10/20 1:36:15 PM
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Fuck, didn't read the run rule first.

Plus, if everyone is already infected, wtf is a bite or scratch supposed to do?

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OffTempo
05/10/20 1:39:17 PM
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The cure to the virus will come out around the same time that the cure for Covid-19 comes out. I'll add that in the OP.

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OffTempo
05/10/20 1:41:31 PM
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Alteres posted...
Fuck, didn't read the run rule first.

Plus, if everyone is already infected, wtf is a bite or scratch supposed to do?
Everyone has the virus in you but it wont take effect until you die. Of course if you're bitten or scratched you'll start to turn.

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averagejoel
05/10/20 1:45:01 PM
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6 doesn't make any sense. if everyone has the virus already then what's the point?

1 and the second half of 3 are also weird

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Anteaterking
05/10/20 1:47:39 PM
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Ssb_yunglink
05/10/20 1:49:08 PM
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Why make this topic if the zombies are worse to the point of absurdity

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Unite
05/10/20 1:54:41 PM
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You would still have some people thinking its hoax and they are paid actors. As we seen certain group of people don't care unless it affects them personally.
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OffTempo
05/10/20 1:57:14 PM
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Unite posted...
You would still have some people thinking its hoax and they are paid actors. As we seen certain group of people don't care unless it affects them personally.
I feel like zombies would work as a better incentive for people to stay inside. Once people see that its no joke they aren't going anywhere.

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OffTempo
05/10/20 1:57:51 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
What?

You know <_<
Its just how it is with zombies okay

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jackgunney
05/10/20 2:02:56 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
What?
I think he means if you drink the water you'd get infected.

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jackgunney
05/10/20 2:04:09 PM
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averagejoel posted...
6 doesn't make any sense. if everyone has the virus already then what's the point?
Maybe the infection is dormant but a bite or scratch activates it?

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SoIidLegacy
05/10/20 2:04:59 PM
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I was gonna vote zombies but fuck that if everyone is already infected by default. Walking Dead rules are stupid, especially since they come with exactly zero explanation.

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OffTempo
05/10/20 2:05:07 PM
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jackgunney posted...
Maybe the infection is dormant but a bite or scratch activates it?
Thats what I was trying to say. I was thinking of it in the Walking Dead sense.

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Proto_Spark
05/10/20 2:09:24 PM
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SoIidLegacy posted...
I was gonna vote zombies but fuck that if everyone is already infected by default. Walking Dead rules are stupid, especially since they come with exactly zero explanation.

Having everyone be infected is kind of the only thing that could make a zombie outbreak anything close to the world-ending scale that we see it being. A bunch of slow dumb idiots eating people would get shut down real fast.

And if we had a disease that was as obviously aggressive as Zombies, I don't think we'd be having some of the problems that we do with Covid (like idiots going into big groups and protesting not being able to go into big groups)
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masticatingman
05/10/20 2:17:23 PM
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No and flopic

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FortuneCookie
05/10/20 2:20:45 PM
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No, you sociopaths. Nobody should want a zombie apocalypse.

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OffTempo
05/10/20 2:26:59 PM
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With this zombie situation as long as you stay under the radar and not fly around like a jackass saying "Come and get me zombies!" you'd be fine. It just becomes a waiting game for the vaccine.

With decomposition being in play zombies become so little of a threat after a couple weeks when their teeth and nails fall out.

Idk I just think there are some pros for the zombie argument.

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DevsBro
05/10/20 2:28:29 PM
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OffTempo posted...
Everyone has the virus but you do not turn into a zombie unless you die, or are bitten/scratched by a zombie.
Wait what

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Golden_Key33
05/10/20 2:30:14 PM
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Proto_Spark posted...
And if we had a disease that was as obviously aggressive as Zombies, I don't think we'd be having some of the problems that we do with Covid (like idiots going into big groups and protesting not being able to go into big groups)
I can imagine "zombie rights" groups who think killing the zombies is inhumane, and that we should keep them locked up until a cure is found. Which would inevitably lead to people saying keeping them locked up is cruel...

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Anteaterking
05/10/20 2:31:45 PM
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OffTempo posted...
With this zombie situation as long as you stay under the radar and not fly around like a jackass saying "Come and get me zombies!" you'd be fine.

Do you actually think even the most essential businesses would stay open in a world where someone could sprint over and bite you any time the employees had to go to work?

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Arcanine2009
05/10/20 2:34:09 PM
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You're asking if we'd be better off in the walking dead universe than COVID-19? Smh

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DevsBro
05/10/20 2:34:35 PM
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Zombie outbreak actually would be a lot better.

The worst part of Covid is spreading it before being symptomatic.

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OffTempo
05/10/20 2:54:20 PM
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Arcanine2009 posted...
You're asking if we'd be better off in the walking dead universe than COVID-19? Smh
Walking Dead universe is stupid as are most zombie franchises. They all make it seem like our military would crumble at the first sight of one zombie.

In a real world context we're too smart to be taken out by something like that. Of course they pose a real threat but I can't imagine the US government being inefficient against them.

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DevsBro
05/10/20 2:56:03 PM
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Arcanine2009 posted...
You're asking if we'd be better off in the walking dead universe than COVID-19? Smh
No this is asking if one Zombie would be better than one Covid case, which it absolutely would since you can tell a zombie a mile away and just shoot everyone in the head who is trying to bite people.

Or try to catch them or whatever. Point is Walking Dead universe will literally never happen.

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SauI_Goodman
05/10/20 2:59:05 PM
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coronavirus only affects the old. i'll take corona for $100 alec

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OffTempo
05/10/20 3:00:42 PM
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Imagine the stupid social media "challenges" that would appear though, "Pretending to be a zombie in a store prank!". Idiots like that would get killed

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DevsBro
05/10/20 3:01:12 PM
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OffTempo posted...
Imagine the stupid social media "challenges" that would appear though, "Pretending to be a zombie in a store prank!". Idiots like that would get killed
Ok?

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Laserion
05/10/20 3:01:19 PM
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Can they still be saved by love, like in Warm Bodies?
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OffTempo
05/10/20 3:09:30 PM
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Laserion posted...
Can they still be saved by love, like in Warm Bodies?
Fuck no

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DevsBro
05/10/20 3:10:34 PM
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OffTempo posted...
Fuck no
In that case, it's way better.

Like, a dozen cases total better.

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IfGodCouldDie
05/10/20 3:23:38 PM
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How long from death to resurrection?

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OffTempo
05/10/20 3:51:20 PM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
How long from death to resurrection?
How about an hour tops.

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Laserion
05/10/20 3:53:56 PM
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People who get it may get very sick, and even die.
VS
People who get it may get very sick, and even die, and then become monsters.

Who would prefer the second?
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Sada_Pop
05/10/20 3:58:44 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
coronavirus only affects the old. i'll take corona for $100 alec
What rock do you live under?

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OffTempo
05/10/20 4:07:52 PM
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Topic was made a couple days ago about Covid killing a six week old.

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Zack_Attackv1
05/10/20 4:21:08 PM
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Zombies so we can lead them all into water.

"Bitch can't even swim." - Jill Valentine
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averagejoel
05/10/20 4:29:56 PM
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OffTempo posted...
With this zombie situation as long as you stay under the radar and not fly around like a jackass saying "Come and get me zombies!" you'd be fine. It just becomes a waiting game for the vaccine.
except, you know, they infect the water too

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NinjaPirateDood
05/10/20 4:43:15 PM
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Dumb rules aside, I'd pick the zombies because at least then I'd have something to observe and something to do amidst the madness. All I know is the TV people told everyone "stay home, there's a virus outbreak"; now, everybody walks around in masks like they're about to rob each other.

Also, seeing fiction come into reality would blow my fucking mind. Although, I guess that's already happened with the "Devil's Breath" ala Marvel's Spider-Man. Amazing game.

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008Zulu
05/10/20 10:37:27 PM
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How can the zombies run, jump, do all that jazz, when half of them has rotted away?

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SocialistGamer
05/10/20 10:39:13 PM
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People would willingly get bit to prove its not fatal.
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NinjaPirateDood
05/11/20 5:20:58 AM
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On second thought, I change my answer. We have enough people on this planet with horrible body odor. We don't need more of that. Imagine cleaning up a pile of rotted corpses from your backyard. Bowels emptied. Blood, skin and bile everywhere...

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The_Korey
05/11/20 5:24:55 AM
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OffTempo posted...
3. EDIT: Everyone has the virus but you do not turn into a zombie unless you die, or are bitten/scratched by a zombie..

Instant nope.

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knutjob
05/11/20 5:55:23 AM
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If everyone turns into a zombie when they die, you're getting hundreds of thousands of new cases a day from day zero
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DevsBro
05/11/20 8:45:39 AM
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SocialistGamer posted...
People would willingly get bit to prove its not fatal.
Getting bitten might not be but getting shot in the head sure is

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OffTempo
05/11/20 1:33:02 PM
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Well its 56 - 20 in favor of Covid, overall I guess thats pretty fair.

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averagejoel
05/12/20 7:30:33 AM
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OffTempo posted...
Well its 56 - 20 in favor of Covid, overall I guess thats pretty fair.
that's mostly because of all the ridiculous stipulations you put on the zombie virus

like becoming fast if they see a human, everyone alrealy having the virus, and the zombies infecting water that they're in

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