How did the apocalypse start?
I've always had one question. How did the apocalypse start? What could have started to make people become walkers? I don't really understand.
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The rest of you suck
(Just kidding..)
Makes sense.
Stage one: everyone got infected by a new illness that displayed no noticeable symptoms so it wasn't picked up (took weeks, months, maybe years)
Stage two: the illness evolved in exactly the same way in every person at around the same time (couple of days)
Stage three: zombie apocalypse (where we are now)
How could this happen? First identify the culprit.
From stage one we can see that the illness can't be a virus as a virus destroys the host cells to exist. symptoms even minor ones would appear and the characters definitely don't seem sick in any way while alive.
Due to modern medicine being commonly used in America, it is also unlikely to be a fungus or bacteria, unless they were super resistant to things like penicillin. Fungus also has a slow mutation rate and bacteria mutates too randomly for stage two to occur.
That leaves parasites and prions as likely culprits as both can infect without causing any noticeable symptoms, are resistant to most modern medicine (most parasites integrate with the host and gain their resistance to it, and prions are currently considered uncureable), and have consistent mutations
A prion is the more likely culprit as they do not need food to survive (zombies not needing to eat for long periods to stay alive) are very resistant to decay (zombies taking forever to rot), can lie dormant and then become active due to stimulation ( like the electrical signals of the brain suddenly turning off, dying) they must have a very high rate of reaction to make a dead body turn so quickly though. Also prions rarely mutate but the same prion will mutate in the same way even if it's in a completely different person, so it changing from no symptoms and harmless to walking dead in every person at around the same time without being in contact with each other is not impossible (though unlikely)
In summary it is most likely caused by a prion, which is the same thing responsible for mad cows
not stealing, I never said it was mine.
Even though his dad was Special Forces, he didn't know what he was doing.
Mystery makes for a better story. The answers to these sorts of things are always contrived.
SOMEBODY FINALLY ANSWERED MY QUESTION