The Walking Dead - Season II (Page 8)

Thats awsome. At least you didn't beat them in the head with a shovel or the first object you could find.

Just rebumping this up for anyone on a zombie withdrawl.  

This is by far the best zombie related material I've ever come across!!!! I love ready the posts he develops.

Adam

I'm an AUD fan as well.  Saw it in this thread in November and then spent many hours catching up.  Now I'm a subscriber and I get it on my Kindle.

I always thought he was whispering that his wife was pregnant to him - since he did do all that bloodwork. Not to mention they already knew that if you died, even without getting bitten, you would come back - think of the guy in the forest campsite they found who hung himself. Did not look like he was bitten, if I remember right, but he certainly came back. Probably just a thing where being bitten activates the infection of some such.

anyway I enjoyed last night episode a lot thought there are quite a large number of possible or early story lines to follow up with at this point. Having not read the written material yet I am excited to see where they take it. Also, Glenn is awesome.

He shot the bad guy from True Blood in the head too.  I'd have to find a clip, but there was head blood on the wall behind the bar.

My thought was that he shot the big guy twice in the chest, but because there was so much chest, once in the head to make sure.

I'm beginning to have a real problem with how they don't take any precautions handling the dead bodies.  I mean even modern day EMTs wear gloves to handle the smallest of scrapes.  These things are oozing blood and guts and they are just picking them up with their hands (then probably touching their eyes and noses).

I'd be looking for a HazMat suit.  At least wearing gloves and face protection.

As for the "if you die you come back as a walker" theory, I don't buy it.  Look at all the dead bodies in the cars on the interstate.  If they died of natural causes and reanimated, they would have left the car.  None of them we saw had brain injuries that would have killed them in the cars where they sat either.  Also remember the bodies Shane and the girl found in the subdivision (in the basement).

ETA: If you came back as a walker no matter if you died naturally or if you got bit then theoretically every person in the world would be a walker eventually (except those killed by the non-infected).  Based on what we've seen so far there are not enough people around for this to be the case.  In Atlanta alone there would be millions of walkers in the streets.

I am pretty sure the walker hanging in the tree was bitten before he hung himself. I am trying to remember that poem/sign he wrote and put on the tree.  I think it went something like, "Got bit. Fever hit. World gone to sh!%, Might as well quit."  So he was bitten and "killed himself" by hanging then turned.  Were his legs eaten by other walkers or by forest animals?

OK so the hanging guy probably was bitten (I did not rewatch all the episodes this weekend so could not remember). Either way this is going to be an interesting season. Wonder where they will head now that they think Fort Benning is destroyed. I don't think they will stay at the Farm but maybe head to Nebraska?

For the Atlanta Zombies thing - remember the military did drop napalm into the streets, lots and lots of napalm. So presumably, even if there were millions of them, a lot could have been burned to dead undeath. Maybe the infection went Airborn and is dormant in everyone? Who knows.

I think it's unlikely. Viruses that are transmissible as fomites do not generally convert to airborne. OTOH, depending on how hardy the vector is, it could survive for quite a while on surfaces - making hygiene and gloving up when handling the undead pretty critical.

I just read Zomblog that had an interesting conceptual twist - are there people who are immune? There was at least person in the book who had scars from bites and no signs of turning (Of course, he died later when he got overrun by walkers who basically tore him apart - no coming back from that one!)

I would love to have this Gerber kit on hand:

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I agree that it seems odd that they handle the dead zombies with little care for germs/infection...Heck, I wouldn't want to sit next to that load of 'em in the back of that pick up - never know if one would suddenly try chomping on my leg! LOL

As for that baby on the way... you may be on to something - it would be A) either the new beginning whereby holding the fresh blood to combat the 'disease'. OR--->could be born a Zombie thus signaling the total destruction of mankind. Woa!

I was thinking about that too. If two groups of people were fighting and a walker horde came upon both of them what would they do? Would they ban together or would they be fighting both forces?

"The Road" gives another interesting spin on the same idea.  it's not zombies, but still post apocalyptic world, and that one they choose to start eating each other.

I could see a little of both happening.  some would resort to taking advantage of other people and others would really be looking to form communities to help with protection.

The battle becomes one fought on several fronts, not only against the dead but also against other survivors for the allocation of scarce resources. There are also trust issues, and likely possibilities of a forceful dictatorship instituting things like slavery and selective allocation of those resources. Not every survivor is going to have "the greater good" at the forefront of his agenda.