Yes but viruses are unseen and can't be shot. A zombie can be seen and can be shot. I think those that didn't understand how to fight a virus or believe it was a thing at all would happily shoot a zombie.

Pre-2020, all zombie movies were goofy fiction. Now, I feel like they are best-case scenarios. People are fucking dumb as shit.

Are you trying to infringe on my right to get my brains eaten by a zombie?? That sounds like commie talk to me. This is America, and if I want to become one of the undead, you can't stop me!

One shitstain at my old job refused to mask and said crap to people who did. He got it and has to wear an adult diaper as a result. I pretended to care.

Covid really made me go from

"why would anyone ever hide a bite?? They're already dead, might as well not put the rest in danger. This is unrealistic"

to

"oh yeah no of course they would hide a bite. People could pull up their sleeves to show an infected bite and they would deny it straight to their faces"

In actual disasters people spontaneously self organize to help each other. That's far and away the most common observed behavior.

I have 2.5 acres of swamp, solar power and plenty of ammo. I'll just go hide. Which I do every weekend anyway. :)

Yeah, I've always said (and still maintain) that I'd rather die in the first wave/initial blast or whatever, rather than try to survive through the aftermath. What kind of existence is on the other side of something like that? Personally, not one I'm interested in.

Mother fuckers literally would hide bites while saying zombies is a woke radical left lib rul hoax.

To be fair, we still have a covid pandemic going on because people are not smart enough to do the smart thins. They will hide their ingections, the infection screenings will be done by incpmpetent people, the rich and dumb elite will preserve zombies as "exotic pets" they show off to their friend because "they have money, so rules don't apply to them", and sentimental idiots won't let go of their turned loved ones. Not to mention the otherwise entitled people who just blatantly disregard every precaution because "You can't limit my freedom with this hoax".

But yeah, in ideal world, the zombie outbreak would be dealt swiftly.

Good zombie fiction isn't really about the zombies, it's about the breakdown of society. Bad zombie fiction has people still fighting zombies multiple years after the outbreak started.

A good zombie series can have both. The Last of Us was really about people in the post apocalypse, not about zombies, but they were still fighting zombies 20 years later.

If you.hqvent read the stand, you should. It's excellent.

It's not zombies but a flu, but the "breakdown" and then the "after" are as you describe.

It depends on how the zombies are made - if it's one of those "everyone who dies always comes back as a zombie" deals, the fighting will never end until the last living person is gone.

Hah, and it was basically all for nothing. If he wrote the book past covid, he would know that he doesn't has to dumb down anything

What are assault rifles all about?

One thing they got 100% right is the idiots. I remember being really annoyed about the chapter with people pretending to be zombies, intentionally getting bitten and spreading etc...

...and then COVID happened and proved that the real world had people at least as bad if not more.

A walking dead version? Sure. 28 days later? Nah. If those fuckers run like that, we'd be done for.

Yes I realize 28 days later technically has no zombies but it's a more probable scenario to have a virus infect people and make them mad than actual corpses walking around.

How bout a zombie like virus that keeps the tissue alive but causes the conscious to fail avoiding say water but aggressively biting others, usually without killing them so the infection can run its course.

Yeah, the bite version just doesn't play out, but if there's one thing COVID has done it's prove we're toast if zombies can just cough on you.

Side note: absolutely love when zombie survivors are covered in zombie blood and guts, scratched all to hell, wiping black corpse gunk out of their eyes, but it's fine because they didn't get bitten.