The airborne zombie-virus outbreak happens. Lots of people turn without being bit; other people don't. Do they ever explain why?
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3As far as the series goes, I think to remember that you have to die, in order to turn. As long as you stay alive, you wont turn. – bitmask Mar 07 '14 at 15:33
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possible duplicate of Why are Walker bites in the Walking Dead fatal? – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:34
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See also: In Walking Dead (TV), is it possible that a survivor becomes immune and Why hasn't Michonne turned in The Walking Dead? – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:35
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@bitmask I remember seeing a comment from the creator; he remarked that most of the Zombies in the Atlanta scene weren't bit. There were a lot of (non-elderly) Zombies in that scene - they couldn't have all died from other causes during the outbreak, and they weren't all bit - so they must have turned some other way. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:42
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And Walking Dead season 2, what did people in the parked cars die from anyway? and In Walking Dead Season 3, how did the guys in riot gear die?. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:43
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@phantom42 I'm trying to figure out how so many turned without being bit. I understand why zombie bites are fatal. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:43
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@hal, Bites are not required to turn. Death with no brain injury is the only thing required to turn. Bites are more likely to cause death due to bacterial infection. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:44
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@Phantom42 how do you account for hundreds of thousands of intact dead people in Atlanta? – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:45
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@hal, if you're referring to the highway scene, look at the question about the parked cars I linked above. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:45
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@phantom42 no I'm not referring to the highway scene. I'm referring to the scene where Rick gets mobbed in the tank. Your link provides these answers: 1) Severe brain trauma from car crash pileup. 2) Another brain damage that killed them. 3) Already zombies that got killed somehow. 1) there's no car pileup, so 1) is out. 2) That wouldn't explain how an entire metropolitan population (or an unlikely significantly large portion of it) was brain damaged in just a few weeks. The zombies were intact so 3) is out. So those answers dont work for Atlanta. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:51
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1We see walkers all the time without immediately obvious wounds. The fact that you can't see the wounds of every walker in a swarm/mob doesn't mean they don't exist. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:52
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@phantom42 the creator remarked that most of the zombies in Atlanta didn't have bites. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:52
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He's talking about the pileup in the cars. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:53
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let us continue this discussion in chat – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:53
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@phantom42 you know everything he said? The comment was about the tank scene. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 15:53
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The quote from Kirkman about people being non-walkers was from here. He's talking about the pileup. – phantom42 Mar 07 '14 at 15:56
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@phantom42 I'm not disputing that you read what you read somewhere. I said that I read a different quote, which is not incompatible with what you read. – Hal Mar 07 '14 at 16:19
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1@Hal Please add that quote to the question, and flesh out the question so it's clear what you're asking. – Mar 07 '14 at 17:33
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It can be assumed, however, that an undetermined number of original "outbreak" cases involved recently-reanimated zombies that were relatively intact and "clean". This could indicate that the active form of the virus does in fact play a part in the attack on the victim's system, perhaps by rapidly wiping out immunity cells which would allow for even weak infections to be deadly.
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It has not been explained how and why the virus exist yet. The only thing we know is that everyone is infected. This means that it doesn't matter if you are bitten or not. As long as you die, you will turn in a zombie. The people that have turned have died, one way or the other. So far, we haven't seen any alive person to turn.
Rick's speech at Vol. 05: The Best Defense perfectly sums it up:
The second we put a bullet in the head of one of those undead monsters -- the moment one of us drove a hammer into one of their faces -- or cut a head off. We became what we are! And that's just it. THAT's what it comes down to. You people don't know what we are.
We're surrounded by the DEAD. We're among them -- and when we finally give up we become them! We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You KNOW that when we die -- we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead?
Don't you get it? We ARE the walking dead! WE are the walking dead.
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'Lots of people turn without being bit; other people don't.' and I answer 'The only thing we know is that everyone is infected' – Shevliaskovic Mar 07 '14 at 16:56
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You only give evidence for "everyone's infected" but that's not in question. The question asks, "does this infection imply you can turn spontaneously without being bit or killed otherwise". – bitmask Mar 07 '14 at 17:06
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2And I said 'This means that it doesn't matter if you are bitten or not. As long as you die, you will turn in a zombie. [...] So far, we haven't seen any alive person to turn.' – Shevliaskovic Mar 07 '14 at 17:11