• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You couldn’t wait them out…

    They wouldn’t just eat people, they’d eat anything. Lots of chance for cross species transmission which would come back to humans later. It wouldn’t just be human to human transmission.

    If we get viral zombies, that’d just be something we have to always deal with a little bit for centuries.

    Fuck, imagine the balls to go camping knowing some crazy feral human that had been living in the woods for either days or years might be attracted to your fire.

    Some antivaxxer CrossFit club gets a breakout and the whole neighborhood is fucked.

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      10 months ago

      I assume they would starve as humans are only good at hunting because of tools. Helpfully we’re not getting the Land of the Dead variety of zombie that is smart enough to use tools.

      Oh and exposure would probably get them too

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        10 months ago

        The weakest would die and the rest would eat them…

        It’s what happens with locust swarms, you stop moving you become food.

        An average person in the woods? Yeah. Probably won’t last too long. But it takes a couple weeks to actually starve.

        Then animals eat them, and maybe they get infected. Maybe that goes back to humans eventually?

        We still have polio outbreaks, something like this wouldn’t just die out in a few months, or even years.

        Rare cases would keep popping up, and outbreaks will keep happening.

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          10 months ago

          Only carrion animals are going to eat those bodies. Unless they poison a water supply, it’ll be fairly limited for it being a hotspot for infection.

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            10 months ago

            28 day/weeks later had an infected crow drip blood in a guys eyes and infected him…

            More animals than you think wouldnt pass up some free meat on the ground.

            Birds, oppousms, racoons, wolves/coyotes/dogs, foxes, rodents…

            And even more that would scavanege tiny pieces from every kill site.

            Mice would honestly be the worse, and most likely.

            It’s not about them spreading thru attack, just coming into contact with humans.