
Originally Posted by
Claire Redfield
Not really with you, no. If the zombie "plague" is highly transmissible and has a high mortality rate, especially if they are fast zombies, things are going to Hell in a hurry. Whether or not animals can become infected has a big impact on just how bad things will get, but generally, I can easily buy what is often shown: someone gets infected and gets on a plane, knowing or not knowing what he or she is carrying, people make stupid mistakes, the infection spreads rapidly because people are trying to save or reason with infected family and friends, etc.
Sure, the military can use high-powered bombs and wipe out large swathes of a city's population at once, but things have to get pretty bad before I imagine they would consider that. And by the time they're getting so bad we're deciding to nuke our own cities, it might be out of control. America is not invincible.
Fighting the actual zombies is more or less the easy part, regardless of how dangerous they are. It's the zombie disease part that is hard to fight. And there are a lot of variables with that. Do animals get infected? Do slain zombies spread the disease? Do all exposed dead rise or just those killed by zombies? Can the disease spread into water sources? How fast does the disease claim its victims? Is there a cure? How strong and fast are the zombies? If bodily fluids and bites transmit the disease, anyone in melee with a zombie is at great risk of infection. Anyone bitten that tries to hide it or doesn't realize what he or she is carrying is going to infect others.
At any rate, yeah, with a quick-acting, highly virulent zombie plague, and especially if we're talking about fast zombies, I can see it quickly getting out of control and there is only so much artillery can do to stop something like that. The military's effectiveness is greatly helped or hindered by the effectiveness of its government, and I'm not real positive about our government's track record with disasters. Or anything, really. We can't even get decent healthcare for our citizens. I don't think I am going to trust the G-men to respond with exactly the right plan for an unforeseeable and highly devastating zombie epidemic.
The Wyzard speaks truth, though: it probably won't claim the whole country, especially once it gets into the more spread-out areas (unless maybe animals become zombies, too). Still, what I wouldn't be able to buy is that we would quickly and cleanly bomb the problem into oblivion.
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