re: What do they eat on The Walking Dead?

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'm sure there would have been a lot of chaos at the onset of the virus when people were shocked and confused by what was happening, but I think society would have been able to regroup long before a total collapse.

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All the spin-offs and everything have made clear that we haven’t been watching the a-team for the past ten years. We’re watching the people who didn’t have their shite together and had to work their way back up from dirt.

There are multiple large groups in people and geographical terms that have thrived, but that wouldn’t have been as good of a show.

Shorter version: Rick just happened to be the most capable idiot in the group.

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Hard to believe they beat down the U.S. military.

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What was left of it after 90% of the troops turned and started attacking from within.

Add 90% zombies to the barracks, ships, submarines, planes, and pentagon, and it is hard to organize a good attack.

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but I think society would have been able to regroup long before a total collapse.

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You have more faith in society then I do

Like others said, it wasn’t widely well known for a while that everyone already carried the virus. Millions would be dying and turning daily and people didn’t know why. The World War Z book handles it's story better. In it society mostly collapsed but not completely. Governments and militaries underestimated the situation but still existed in some capacity. It took them years but they eventually retook the planet. Though the zombies in that world were a lot more dangerous, everyone wasn’t already infected like in TWD. TWD never shows a large scale view of the world so we don’t know if there’s some serious resistance.

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They would walk straight into military gunfire and get mowed down like grass.

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At some point they would start to run out, and they can’t be everywhere at once. They aren’t enough soldiers to cover the whole US population. I would also expect to see soldiers abandoning their posts as the chaos increased.

The main thing all these apocalyptic events are based around is the complete collapse of society. In every instance people began to gather in groups to riot or raid stores which just increases the outbreak as people turn by the hundreds before anyone realizes it.

In real life, just like the collapse of the power grid (and most electronics) globally from something like a solar flare, would definitely cause large amounts of chaos. Now you throw in people coming back from the dead in droves and are seemingly unkillable at first. People will see their loved ones feeding on each other. People would go absolutely crazy.

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You have more faith in society then I do

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It's interesting to think about. I think the key factor is how quickly people can figure out the nature of the virus and the walkers and exactly what they're dealing with.

Forget about the military. This show takes place, at least at the start, in Georgia. Any southern state will be full of redneck hunters. All you have to do is declare open season on zombies and the local citizens would wipe them out in no time.

I'd be interested in seeing the zombie outbreak in even more violent areas, like inner city ghettos, Mexico and central America, Africa, the middle east, etc. Those people don't have much respect for human life so I imagine they'd have even less respect for zombies.