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I mentioned it in another thread but with single point infection zombie outbreak scenarios, there is almost never any serious explanation as to why exactly this shit becomes anything more than a municipality or two getting infected and swarmed before the government and military wises up and cordons shit off/evacuates the surrounding area/firebombs the shit out of these areas, and thus it feels fucking stupid that an entire country/all countries could be wiped out because of this given how 99% of zombies/infected in said outbreaks are just mindlessly retarded and easily distracted humans who lack any weapons beyond their hands and teeth, and tactics beyond swarming. The moment a literal line of soldiers and armoured vehicles is spun around the outbreak zone there aint no fucking realistic way the zombies/infected are getting out without retarded plot contrivances, and 99% of the zombies/infected within the outbreak zone will just be ambling around after car alarms and trash cans being knocked over rather than all swarming the military together.
Romero zombies conversely, as I sperged at even greater length about in another thread, are dangerous because everyone who dies anywhere of anything that does not mulch their brains becomes a brand new infection point, meaning quarantine is 1000% impossible and the only hope society has is to radically adapt almost overnight to a brainfuckingly horrible new reality with all members of the public being willing to headsmash corpses immediately upon death to prevent a new army of zombies forming, and to keep doing this literally forever going forwards, and if this doesnt happen in like the first week or two then shit is gonna spin out of control due to the military/police being stretched to breaking point in hammering down a hundred different outbreaks and civilians going apeshit with panic, with authorities having to dedicate more limited resources to keeping the ship together, all while military/civilian/government workers rapidly start running for the hills and making the fall of society that much more inevitable.
With the 28 Days Later infected, the only way to work around why this shit wasn't bombed/napalmed/nerve gassed out of existence after like a fortnight of the Cambridge area being swarmed with troops and guns is to soft-retcon the infection in a way that allows it to get past any blockade or cordon, which thus allows the UK to be overrun due to the military being overstretched the lack of security causing a mass societal meltdown like in the OG Dawn of the Dead. I dunno, maybe add a "slow burn" airborne variant which infects a couple of the troops/survivors with a teeny tiny viral load who then are evacuated elsewhere in the country, and then after a couple of days the viral load has built up to cause a full onset of infection and thus brand new outbreaks. This would also explain why the UK was so zealously quarantined as even seemingly uninfected people would risk entire continents being exterminated.
Another thing to note about the OG movie which makes me think they will have to do a fuckload of soft-retcon spackling to explain why these zombies are so super duper dangerous is because when you actually rewatch the infected scenes in 28 days later, the alleged "mindlessly homicidal rage zombies" seem strangely more sedate than one would think.
- Protagonist wanders around the infected London literally screaming "HELLOOO?" and not one infected nigga notices or cares
- Protagonist wanders into a church full of infected, and upon specifically getting their attention straight with eye contact they just kinda stare at him looking surprised until he beats up an infected priest, causing them to chase him
- Protagonist is told to only go out in daylight, implying the infected hate the sun which is borne out when they go back to Protagonist's home where they are later attacked by infected neighbours at night, but despite the noise they make none of the infected neighbours notice or care during the daytime
- After this, they head off in the middle of the night and only attract the attention of two random infected nearby while making plenty of noise
- During the tunnel scene they are attacked by infected already living in the tunnel who give up chasing them after like 5 seconds of them driving off
- In the Gas Station scene, the infected kid in the restaurant ignores the car pulling up, the protagonists getting out and making a fucktunne of noise, and even the main protagonist walking inside until said protagonist actively starts calling him out
- Despite the evil soldier lair being located in the middle of what is described as an infected hotspot with forests teeming with infected, they only attract the attention of like a dozen, and thats with literal flood lights and sirens and splosions going off.
