JamesStone said:
I can totally understand how can a Fast Zombie scenario can get going, like the movie version of World War Z, or an "infected" scenario where the virus makes people go cray-cray, but slow zombies? That shit is stupid.
Let's say one city gets infected. What do you do? Quarantine the city. Get a high wall filled with flamethrowers in the barricade. Every time a zombie horde gets too big, here comes the fire. You don't have to worry about getting chased by a burning corpse because wall, and soon enough that'll be one dead horde. Then you just take a few choppers, and use machineguns and explosives to clear out most zombie entrenchments. Keep that shit for 24 hours of constant flight and ressuply. Then, move in with the heavy vehicles and troops, go into buildings and look for survivors.
There's no way an entire city goes dark without them knowing it's zombies in this day and age. Between the multiple cameras and satellite footages, plus the reports from radio-bearing survivors, there's no excuse to not use overwhelming firepower to fight what essentially is a pack of animals that can't run, can't make or use tools, and whose sole threatening feature is the ability to turn you into one of them.
One city and a shitton of flamer/vehicle fuel would be the final veredict. Shitty, yes, but I can't see how a slow zombie apocalypse would ever make way.
Well the slow zombie would depend on how fast it spreads. Weird I know but the infection speed is debatable depending on the setting. Some turn fast and some turn slowly. Settings like World War Z(book) make it clear that the spread happens due to infected organs/blood along with refugees pouring out of the hot zone only to vanish into the low class population. Meaning the time bomb of multiple cities/towns/villages being besieged all at once has a very good chance of overruning the humans because you have to handle so many spots at once.
There's also the time frame needed for the military needs to actually do anything. In your example, how long would it take to build that wall? Every day building it is another day the zombies have time to go to town on nice nom nom humans. Along with maybe being drawn to the sound of building, infected humans crossing that soon to be done barrier, and depending on how far along it is, zombies on the other side of the barrier coming to take a look. The soldiers would have to defend both sides of the wall for weeks just as it's being built if the outbreak is far along. And even one zombie/infected getting past while it's being built might cause the whole plan to go up in smoke. Also, would you like to share where the city actually begins? Start building the wall around downtown or the city limits?
Whole city going dark is probably impossible you're right unless some sort of network gets damaged and even then zombies would only do that through sheer luck. But it's how far along the virus outbreak gets before someone goes "Hey this might be crazy but I think this is a zombie outbreak".
Most people probably wouldn't believe them to be zombies at first, espically with all the hoaxes and stories we've already had. Remember all the bath salt stories a few years back? Basically insane, attacked anything, took several shots/cops to take down finally. I could see people thinking it's something along those lines at first.
Really you might be right, a single city falling to the virus might be out of the question. But most settings tend to either skip over it, OR have the outbreak take place world wide, on a much grander scale than just one city.
Mind you this is all with the 'standard' zombie. If it was something different, our perceived knowledge is basically useless.
