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Porcupine_I on 29 September 2014
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Ka-pi96 said:
JakDaSnack said:
How exactly did this infection spread across the united states in the first place? I mean, if it takes 2 days for the infection to spread then couldn't the military just kill the currently infected really fast, and just gather up those who are about to be infected and kill those? It's not like other zombie movies where people become zombies so fast that it's easy to get overwhelmed...anyways, I probably missed something.

It is a fungus with airborne spores. So it taking 2 days may have actually helped it spread. If it started in just one place, people would have been travelling through that place and could have been infected and then went somewhere else. Not knowing they were infected at all. So by the time the infection actually takes hold it is already in lots of different places, not just where it originated from.

The newspaper also mentioned contaminated crops, so i suppose the infection could have started being spread all over the country by food distribution.



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’