YaZombieT - Is zombification / rage virus / getting bitten impossible to stop?

[hellokeith]

So I just got finished watching 28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later, and I have to say that not since Dawn of the Dead have I been so aggrevated with the weak mentality of people who basically give the keys over to the zombie hordes because somebody's kid or boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or grandma is "just outside". "Mom is still alive, just down the block." Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.

I'm beginning to wonder if the writers truly believe zombification is impossible to stop once it hast started? Granted, as long as it keeps going, it guarantees movie sequels et al, but come on.

1. Quarantine the area
2. Shoot anything that moves, including but not limited to newspapers blowing across the street
3. Thermite / Fuel Air Bomb the area
4. Build a gigantoenourmous wall around the rubble
5. Don't ever go there ever again for any reason, Amen
5. Rinse & Repeat steps 1-5 for any infected area

/me stocks up survival pack and looks over escape routes yet again..

 

[DaveSimmons]

> 3. Thermite / Fuel Air Bomb the area

They tried a tactical nuke artillery shell in Return of the Living Dead, but that just spread it faster via the blast wave.

The problem is, as with most traditional infections, by the time emergency management realizes an epidemic has started, the carriers are already too widely dispersed.

 

[MotF Bane]

I would recommend thermonuclear weapons - bigger crater. Besides, things tunnel under walls (assuming they survive the explosives).

 

[imported_LoKe]

I'm pretty sure they did do that in 28 weeks later, but failed miserably.

 

[Auric]

In real life, quarantine isn't politically correct. Zombies have rights too.

In any case, donut underestimate the hoi polloi's short-sightedness, sentimentality, ignorance, and even selfishness to the extent that they end up hurting themselves and many more.

Dolts go to school and work everyday knowingly carrying cold, influenza, and worse. They simply do not take disease seriousry.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

That part in 28 Weeks Later annoyed the hell of me also.. kids going back..

 

[compman25]

It's a movie, who gives a crap. The writer can do what ever they want in it.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Auric
In real life, quarantine isn't politically correct. Zombies have rights too.

yes, if you attack zombies , it is a hate crime

 

[BigJelly]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our a$$es kicked, pal!

 

[TecHNooB]

Pshh.. this thread is so transparent. If you want it so bad, go make the damn virus!

 

[irishScott]

Even if the nukes and whatnot didn't work, think of it this way:

1. The US military can beat the living shit out of practically any organized military. Said militaries would use tactics, technology, and highly trained soldiers.

2. Zombies are disorganized, technologically primitive, untrained, slow, and go down with a few shots.

The Military could kick any Zombie horde's ass. Not to mention civilian/partisans adding to the body count.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Even if the nukes and whatnot didn't work, think of it this way:

1. The US military can beat the living shit out of practically any organized military. Said militaries would use tactics, technology, and highly trained soldiers.

2. Zombies are disorganized, technologically primitive, untrained, slow, and go down with a few shots.

The Military could kick any Zombie horde's ass. Not to mention civilian/partisans adding to the body count.

The military could kick Max Brooks's zombies, but the ones in 28 Days Later are much faster and apparently stealthy.

 

[MyThirdEye]

I wouldn't count on it happening anytime soon.

 

[hellokeith]

Originally posted by: BigJelly

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our a$$es kicked, pal!

Why don't you put her in charge!

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Originally posted by: hellokeith

Originally posted by: BigJelly

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our a$$es kicked, pal!

Why don't you put her in charge!

Maybe we demoralized 'em.