The Walking Dead 4.2 "Infected" (spoiler alert)

[krispos42]

104. I think armed guards are going to be the norm now

If anybody dies, for any reason, they come back as a zombie.

When survival was day-to-day and the situation very fluid, worrying about such things such as heart attacks and strokes was a very distant threat.

But now... there are no more immunizations, and limited antibiotics.


Now, at this time in the zombie apocalypse there has been a lot of Darwinism going on. Lots of the elderly and chronically sick died in the first few days or weeks of the apocalypse. Need oxygen to live? Too bad. Failed kidneys, on dialysis? You didn't make it. Diabetic? Yeah, you became zombie lunch while in a coma. Wheelchair-bound? You were a zombie's "meals-on-wheels".

So the ones left are those that are healthy enough to fight and run, to live largely without medicine or other medical technology.

But... seasonal flu? Yeah, its all over the place. Now, of course, there's a lot less travel than before, so that will help some. But it's not perfect.

And there's the usual run of causes of deaths... food poisoning, cholera, dysentery, salmonella, etc. Plus all the non-infections ones, like cancer, heart attacks, strokes, etc.


Once you're secure against the external threat, this other stuff puts you at risk from within.


Honestly, I think what they're going to have to do in the prison is have each person lock themselves in their cell every night. If somebody turns, they can't escape to attack anybody else!