"Negligence and a lack of understanding in the early days, yeah. For example, hospitals were usually ground zero for the first major outbreaks. Bite victims were brought it, died, reanimated and then attacked medical staff and other patients who then died in turn. Police forces were hit badly at the start as well, because they didn't know what they were dealing with. When the number of dead started to rise into the millions, various national militaries started to mobilise, but their weapons and tactics were no good against enemies like that. They would form massed lines and open up on the dead with artillery, bombers, assault weapons and the like. Stuff designed to cause massive trauma to large groups. But since these weaponns focused on stopping power and wide areas of destruction rather than pinpoint accuracy to destroy the brain, the majority of the ghouls just kept getting up after taking hits that would kill a living human. They swarmed the infantry lines and massacred them. Trillions of dollars worth of military equipment became useless and huge numbers of personnel joined the undead swarms. The majority of casualties died in the first year or two. But by the third or fourth year, that meant billions of them. They outnumbered the living by a huge amount." James recounted the early history of the zombie war with detached objectivity, obviously far more calm and professional than when he described the personal cost of such a plague.
