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BipBapBam
01/24/22 5:50:42 AM
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I'm bored and saw a zombie movie earlier so. Would everything instantly go to shit, or do we contain it easily and write it off as a bunch of crazy cannibals?

Let's say typical zombie rules: 1 bite = infected, can only be ''killed'' by destroying their head, and they can run because I have no idea how zombies that slowly waddle over to you can be threatening tbh. Obviously they're mindless, so they can't make plans or anything, just blindly rush the nearest living person.

Bonus question: How long do you personally think you would last if it wasn't instantly contained?

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Crazyman93
01/24/22 5:54:20 AM
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... Look how we handled COVID-19. We'd be too busy arguing about it to survive.

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NightingaleMD
01/24/22 5:56:01 AM
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Crazyman93 posted...
... Look how we handled COVID-19. We'd be too busy arguing about it to survive.


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TetsuoS2
01/24/22 5:56:44 AM
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Crazyman93 posted...
... Look how we handled COVID-19. We'd be too busy arguing about it to survive.

Ironically I realized that we give horror movies too much shit and that they're actually more realistic than most people think.

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viewmaster_pi
01/24/22 5:57:39 AM
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zombies aren't real, it's about government control!!!!! it's a hoax!!!!

-gets bitten-

uggggghhh j-just... allergies... brainergies... i mean allergies!!!

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Xavier_On_High
01/24/22 6:00:23 AM
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If it requires a bite for a person to turn, it would be easily contained.

If it's Walking Dead rules, it would be harder, but I still think it could be contained, though obviously society would look drastically different.

Either way, I don't see it being the apocalypse.

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Crazyman93
01/24/22 6:02:59 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
zombies aren't real, it's about government control!!!!! it's a hoax!!!!

-gets bitten-

uggggghhh j-just... allergies... brainergies... i mean allergies!!!
Ironically, once the infected start getting hard to contain, I could see the right wing being more likely to survive since they're the ones that tend to be armed and and contain the people expecting society to fall apart tomorrow.

There would also be at least three stories of someone getting infected because they thought they could help restore the humanity of the zombies or something similar. And one of someone getting mauled while defending a zombie from being shot.

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Nukazie
01/24/22 6:03:14 AM
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if it's spreading by a virus and not just bites? yeah we'll be fucking up big time

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BipBapBam
01/24/22 6:03:33 AM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
If it requires a bite for a person to turn, it would be easily contained.

If it's Walking Dead rules, it would be harder, but I still think it could be contained, though obviously society would look drastically different.

Either way, I don't see it being the apocalypse.
What are the Walking Dead rules?

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Xavier_On_High
01/24/22 6:05:33 AM
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BipBapBam posted...
What are the Walking Dead rules?

Anyone who dies turns.

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Kisai
01/24/22 6:05:38 AM
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TetsuoS2 posted...
Ironically I realized that we give horror movies too much shit and that they're actually more realistic than most people think.
They weren't supposed to be realistic, that's the thing. In Always Sunny, they made a joke about Frank getting horse dewormer to help against covid because that sounds exactly like the kind of thing these fictional buffoons would do. The insanity and comedy of fiction isn't supposed to be happening in real life. ;_;

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Crazyman93
01/24/22 6:05:39 AM
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OVERGOATED posted...
Military would take care of it in a couple days
No it wouldn't. TC stated they can only be destroyed by destroying the head. The US military 5.56 round won't destroy it. If a simple shot is enough then that helps, but they train military and law enforcement to aim for center of mass because it's a bigger target. Military training with a firearm would actually be a near hinderance.

And THEN you'd have Congress arguing over whether to deploy them in the first place. And then arguing over using the big guns where "headshot" is an academic point on US soil.

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Vyrulisse
01/24/22 6:07:37 AM
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It really depends on how it begins and the initial response. If outbreak hotspots pop up all over the world then there's no chance we handle it at all. If it's one isolated area the chances are greater. Then there's all sorts of variables almost too many to count in which it could get out of hand even from one location.

Also look at how people behaved when Covid began, rushing to stores and buying up everything they could, fighting over fucking toilet paper and acting like animals, we'd do that again on a larger scale if zombies were confirmed to be happening thus opening the door for the outbreak to spread like wildfire.

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YugiNoob
01/24/22 6:18:04 AM
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You'd have idiots getting bitten for TikTok views or saying it's a conspiracy, causing the outbreak to spread much faster than it should :<

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ROBANN_88
01/24/22 6:18:45 AM
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Crazyman93 posted...
... Look how we handled COVID-19. We'd be too busy arguing about it to survive.

in the World War Z book, some people thought they were immune, partly cause some quack did the equivalent of "chug bleach or de-wormer fluid to cure it"

some others mentally snapped, started behaving like Zombies, even though they weren't bitten, and so just walked into a crowd of them... and got bitten
or they'd bite someone else who then didn't get infected and then that person might believe they're immune instead.

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TetsuoS2
01/24/22 6:19:54 AM
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Kisai posted...
They weren't supposed to be realistic, that's the thing. In Always Sunny, they made a joke about Frank getting horse dewormer to help against covid because that sounds exactly like the kind of thing these fictional buffoons would do. The insanity and comedy of fiction isn't supposed to be happening in real life. ;_;

yea, pretty sad.

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BipBapBam
01/24/22 6:28:50 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
some others mentally snapped, started behaving like Zombies, even though they weren't bitten, and so just walked into a crowd of them... and got bitten
or they'd bite someone else who then didn't get infected and then that person might believe they're immune instead.
lmao

Yeah, I can see all of that happening

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Irony
01/24/22 6:31:22 AM
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Zombie apocalypses happen in fictional series because knowledge of zombies doesn't exist in most cases. In reality the military would annihilate zombies.

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viewmaster_pi
01/24/22 6:33:56 AM
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YugiNoob posted...
You'd have idiots getting bitten for TikTok views or saying it's a conspiracy, causing the outbreak to spread much faster than it should :<
WHAT'S UP YOUTUBE IT'S YA BOY!!!! YOOOOOO I JUST GOT BIT LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

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mooreandrew58
01/24/22 6:36:14 AM
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I feel America would go to shit in a different way. There would be a lot more human on human violence but with our affinity for guns I feel less of us would be boarded up hiding all the time.

Walmart would be warzones as it would be a good place to take a stand. Food clothes guns ammo melee weapons such as baseball bats among other things

We the still living would be our own biggest threat. Either through violence to steal others supplies or people getting infected and hiding it while remaining with their group of people

Other countries will have it rougher in the being able to move around safely department. They'll have to get creative on how to fight back

This all of course not considering the military just comes in and wipes them out.

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Strider102
01/24/22 6:37:55 AM
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People would be out rioting fighting police/military trying to take down the infected.

While that's happening people would be getting bit left and right. If it's TWD rules people would be dying and turning so fast we'd be overwhelmed.

So just wait in your homes for at least 1-2 weeks. By then any infected would be immobile.

Of course, a certain group of people would be like "fuck that, my freedoms!!!"

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mooreandrew58
01/24/22 6:42:45 AM
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Strider102 posted...
People would be out rioting fighting police/military trying to take down the infected.

While that's happening people would be getting bit left and right. If it's TWD rules people would be dying and turning so fast we'd be overwhelmed.

So just wait in your homes for at least 1-2 weeks. By then any infected would be immobile.

Of course, a certain group of people would be like "fuck that, my freedoms!!!"

I honestly feel people would take that more seriously. One the disease pretty much has q 100% death rate and 2 it means you might have to literally fight for survival.

Covid has killed a lot. But most of us don't see it we just see the numbers. Like my boss was all anti Vax and what not. Then a friend and a family member died of it and suddenly she's vaccinated and the biggest enforcer on wearing masks.

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ROBANN_88
01/24/22 6:49:28 AM
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on the one hand, yeah. based on current evidence of some people, we'd be fucked

but on the other hand, zombies is a problem that can be solved with a gun, so they might just have a field day

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scorpion41
01/24/22 6:50:56 AM
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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.

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Sharashaska
01/24/22 8:23:42 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
in the World War Z book, some people thought they were immune, partly cause some quack did the equivalent of "chug bleach or de-wormer fluid to cure it"

some others mentally snapped, started behaving like Zombies, even though they weren't bitten, and so just walked into a crowd of them... and got bitten
or they'd bite someone else who then didn't get infected and then that person might believe they're immune instead.
That book is my favorite!

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Unsuprised_Pika
01/24/22 8:27:05 AM
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Zombie horde eating his wife alive in front of him Billy Bob says

"Fake news! The libs paid her to fake being eaten by these actors."
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Cobra1010
01/24/22 8:33:14 AM
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Depends if its only fresh blood/saliva contact. If it spreads like covid, you can probably catch it from trying to gather food from a supermarket after things had happened in there.

Because then I assume would be hard to find running water and hand sanitisers to wash your hands before you touch food or your face.

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ZevLoveDOOM
01/24/22 8:34:34 AM
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based on how this pandemic went? basically we would be fucked..

for sure you would have morons downplaying how serious it is and getting infected left and right. just like how it was with covid. lol
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--Zero-
01/24/22 8:40:34 AM
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Most likely wed be fucked cause youd have people that dont believe its real and youll have people that will reject the vaccine.

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SSMajinVegeta2
01/24/22 8:58:42 AM
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@viewmaster_pi I laughed more than I should have. Its yoooooo boi

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Ilishe
01/24/22 9:00:25 AM
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There'd be a gigantic shit storm and millions would die. Rural areas would be much safer, for a while.

Eventually there would be safe havens from which we'd rebuild society, but life would change forever.

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Crescente
01/24/22 9:47:39 AM
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Fever gone but itchy. Today hungry and eat doggy food.

Itchy itchy Scott came ugly face so killed him. Tasty.
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Nemu
01/24/22 9:51:25 AM
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Major population centers would be fucked, but lightly populated areas would probably make it out fine. Realistic zombies would probably have a fairly short shelf life unless we're going with some kind of semi-intelligent fungus zombies that can actually intake nutrients.
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ROBANN_88
01/24/22 9:59:58 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
WHAT'S UP YOUTUBE IT'S YA BOY!!!! YOOOOOO I JUST GOT BIT LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Wasn't there something like that in Army of the Dead?

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Umbreon
01/24/22 10:21:40 AM
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"Hey, I know you got bitten earlier but I'm gonna need you to do a double this week. Be a
team player. People don't want to work anymore!"

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Crescente
01/24/22 10:43:44 AM
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Umbreon posted...
"Hey, I know you got bitten earlier but I'm gonna need you to do a double this week. Be a
team player. People don't want to work anymore!"

"God damnit, why'd Tim bite me? All I asked was for him to do a bit of overtime. Guy's a maniac!"
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Returning_CEmen
01/24/22 10:57:20 AM
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I saw a meme the other day that went something like, the pandemic has proved to me that a lot of people would lie about being bitten by a zombie

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Questionmarktarius
01/24/22 10:57:39 AM
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FortuneCookie
01/24/22 11:02:44 AM
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Zombie takeovers are unrealistic. They're literally an unarmed mob. The army would wipe them out no sweat.

The only way they could pose a threat is if they were Return of the Living Dead zombies which couldn't be killed unless cremated and whose ashes could still infect others. Then it would be pretty much impossible to stop them.
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Zikten
01/24/22 1:41:43 PM
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I used to think a real zombie outbreak would get stopped fast. But then Covid happened and I saw how stupid humans are
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SSJPurple
01/24/22 1:48:03 PM
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Dude have you not been paying attention? Wed be all be zombies.

We could literally have Dawn Of The Dead happening outside and half our country would be like naaaa dog its just rabies yall are overreacting

They would say the zombies are actually government actors that bite people to control us.


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ViewtifulJoe
01/24/22 1:57:24 PM
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We've basically got one already. The only nice caveat is the anti-vaxxers can't forcibly convert others.
The big difference maker for the literal living dead would be the mandate some would see it as to go around openly shooting things, and that's just the US. The selfishness would be repulsive and there'd be no collective effort to solve the issue.

If your deceased relation gets up and starts hissing and trying to attack you, that throws the "new angel in heaven" narrative out the window so maybe the would be anti-vaxxers would take it more seriously after seeing it in person. They probably wouldn't though since they think JFK's going to respawn and that fish tank cleaner is the way to go.

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Pepys Monster
01/24/22 2:02:51 PM
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I always thought it was dumb how the military gets wiped out by zombies in all zombie fiction. They have discipline, firepower, and would do a hell of a lot better than a ragtag group of civilians (unless those civilians have immunity, then it's a valid plot device).

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ThyCorndog
01/24/22 2:05:17 PM
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Pepys Monster posted...
I always thought it was dumb how the military gets wiped out by zombies in all zombie fiction. They have discipline, firepower, and would do a hell of a lot better than a ragtag group of civilians (unless those civilians have immunity, then it's a valid plot device).
I think the general reasoning is because the military is the first to deploy, before it's common knowledge how the zombies work. so they get wiped out fighting something they don't understand

still pretty dumb tho. human teeth aren't that strong. there's no way vehicles would get overrun

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UnholyMudcrab
01/24/22 2:06:18 PM
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I used to think it wouldn't be much of an issue, but after seeing how we've handled COVID, I had to revise my opinion. We'd all be fucking doomed.

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