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How would humans lose against the zombies?

posted 4 months ago by Aylmer (417)
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One thing that has always bothered me is how weak and slow the zombies are and that there's no way they could realistically win against well-armed human beings, especially in the United States. One person could easily go out and kill dozens of zombies each day. Ammo wouldn't be a huge problem either if you were disciplined enough to always go in for head shots and make each shot count. In some states like Alaska or Kentucky, etc. I would expect each household, on average, to have about 1,000 rounds of ammunition onhand. Slow moving zombies wouldn't fare well against those odds.

That said, I will always prefer slow-moving zombies to running ones. They're just so much creepier and give you a false sense of security. I especially loved the ones in the early 80's Lucio Fulci movies.

[–] CaldoTheKid (358) 4 months ago

Problem is I imagine a lot of people aren't disciplined enough to go for head shots. Plus while a lot of folk will have experience at a shooting gallery, they won't have combat experience and will shit themselves when 10 zombies surround them.

Not to mention folk not being able to shoot their granny when she turns and then she bites them.

[–] AnthonySocksss (445) a month ago

The idea is that society falls apart due to human beings’ complete ineptitude more than from the zombies.

The other issue is that as long as human beings exist there will always be zombies. So basically a global economic crisis together with the world having been turned into a police state.

[–] BuckleBilly (1107) a month ago

Once normal order falls apart, chaos ensues.

Zombies ate one thing, but people are the next.

As for armed citizens, it's not 10 people on 100 zombies. It's 1/10 while the rest cannot act. Same goes for soldiers in war.

[–] DoubleRD77 (96) a month ago

The rules of society would work against people until it was too late. If you shot a zombie early on, you would be arrested for murder. They would multiply until there was no society because of the rules. Imagine you saw a zombie, would you just shoot it? You would be locked up. The authorities would try to apprehend zombies at first, with some getting bit in the process. The government would deny anything was happening and make examples out of people taking action.

[–] BuckleBilly (1107) a month ago

That's a good take.

[–] Aylmer (417) a month ago

Lol yeah that would be a pretty decent movie - a fully realistic courtroom drama about a guy who kills a zombie. Meanwhile the cops are out there arresting zombies and throwing them into general population in some overcrowded jail. That would be a lot of fun for the other prisoners.

Yeah up until 2020 I had a lot more faith that societal glue will hold together and people will behave rationally in a crisis. Now I realize that society is actually fairly fragile and something like a sudden zombie epidemic might push it over the edge. All those zombies walking around Dawn of the Dead may be a result of human vs. human civil war style infighting more than people who were killed by zombies themselves.

The issue there with the actual movie though is that most of the featured zombies look absolutely undamaged. Maybe there was some other natural disaster which killed a lot of people that the main characters were oblivious to? A nuclear radiation leak would make the most sense since the power was still on "could be nuclear".

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21452) a month ago

Imagine if you took out a couple of zombies early on and got thrown in jail. Having your family on the outside while you’re stuck in there would be a real nightmare, and you know it would break out there sooner or later. You might even die of starvation if you got stuck in a cell.

[–] DoubleRD77 (96) a month ago

Look at the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead. That one zombie at the car crash bites the EMS worker. The police try to apprehend him, but cannot. They shoot an unarmed man. What lethal threat did he pose? Four police officers could not handcuff an unarmed man and had to shoot and kill him? They would be suspended under investigation at the very least. Add this all over and you would see a shortage of police or police and first responders who get bit trying to apprehend someone the legal way. Early on a zombie is just a mentally ill injured person who needs medical treatment. Your first responders will be the first to turn and people will be hesitant to react due to fear of prosecution, until it is too late.