• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    10 months ago

    Which in theory with any sort of living zombie all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months while they inevitably starve to death.

    • illi@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      40
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months

      Because wht we learned in the last couple of years is humanity as a whole is totally capable of isolating for a few months without issues

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      You couldn’t wait them out…

      They wouldn’t just eat people, they’d eat anything. Lots of chance for cross species transmission which would come back to humans later. It wouldn’t just be human to human transmission.

      If we get viral zombies, that’d just be something we have to always deal with a little bit for centuries.

      Fuck, imagine the balls to go camping knowing some crazy feral human that had been living in the woods for either days or years might be attracted to your fire.

      Some antivaxxer CrossFit club gets a breakout and the whole neighborhood is fucked.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        I assume they would starve as humans are only good at hunting because of tools. Helpfully we’re not getting the Land of the Dead variety of zombie that is smart enough to use tools.

        Oh and exposure would probably get them too

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          The weakest would die and the rest would eat them…

          It’s what happens with locust swarms, you stop moving you become food.

          An average person in the woods? Yeah. Probably won’t last too long. But it takes a couple weeks to actually starve.

          Then animals eat them, and maybe they get infected. Maybe that goes back to humans eventually?

          We still have polio outbreaks, something like this wouldn’t just die out in a few months, or even years.

          Rare cases would keep popping up, and outbreaks will keep happening.

          • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            10 months ago

            Only carrion animals are going to eat those bodies. Unless they poison a water supply, it’ll be fairly limited for it being a hotspot for infection.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              10 months ago

              28 day/weeks later had an infected crow drip blood in a guys eyes and infected him…

              More animals than you think wouldnt pass up some free meat on the ground.

              Birds, oppousms, racoons, wolves/coyotes/dogs, foxes, rodents…

              And even more that would scavanege tiny pieces from every kill site.

              Mice would honestly be the worse, and most likely.

              It’s not about them spreading thru attack, just coming into contact with humans.

    • Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      10 months ago

      THE ECONOMY! Everyone must return to work, despite the very low and acceptable risk of being eaten by zombies, in order to keep our real estate investments worthwhile.

      • arin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        If we did the traditional 40 day quarantine of old rather than the shitty 2 weeks lockdown we may have lowered the spread better… But even China tried hard to do zero covid and eventually succumbed 2022 when covid still managed to go out of control