How would militaries and governments react ??
It’s been awhile since I’ve read the book but weren’t the zombies in that walkers and not runners?
I just don’t see how walkers would be a threat in the real world, runners might be able to spread more easily but I think even then they would be quickly contained .
If I remember the book they said Nebraska was a zombie land due to cities evacuating and I80 being congested.
Living in Nebraska we have tons of heavy machinery and farming implements. Can easily hook up a disk to a tractor and plow them into the ground
I just don’t see how walkers would be a threat in the real world,
Numbers. Couple that with the conspiracy theory nuts that would deny they exist and actively assist the spread. Battle of Yonkers was a pretty good example of how a military response could fail. Most people have no concept of how difficult a head shot is nor the energy required and also difficulty in melee attacking a human head.
Ya I get that but as someone who has seen heavy machinery accidents the machine wins always and it’s not even close. Even a 68 ton Abrams tank would do more damage to masses by just plowing over them than weaponry. Sure you’ll get some ankle biter bobs in the weeds but the majority you just rendered immobile .
Now throw some 50ft wide discs and you just have a bunch of grinding saws
I mean, the Zombies in WWZ basically run on magic shields to be a threat. They’re utterly invulnerable to anything Max Brooks doesn’t want them to be killed by.
Like, if I remember correctly, they’re immune to shrapnel and bleeding wounds because “the dead don’t need blood”, and nerve toxins or shockwaves don’t harm them because “the dead don’t have a nervous system”. But somehow removing the head is a 100% infallible method of killing them. What is in the head if not blood and nerves, Max?
These are creatures which casually violate the second law of thermodynamics. If they’re playing by real-world physics, chemistry, and biology, they’re radically less dangerous.
His prior book The Zombie Survival Guide goes into a lot of detail about the how and why of Zombie biology and durability
I’m aware of it. It suffers from the same issues as WWZ. Max Brooks makes a lot of assertions, some of which are factually wrong (about topics other than zombies, I mean), some of which require the zombies to share the same oddly specific immunities to be true, and some of which is even self-contradictory. (Offhand, the bit that sticks in my mind is he completely contradicts himself about whether zombies can even climb things.)
lol basically everything shield
