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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2798442" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>Sorry but he I don't think he is spot on. </p><p></p><p>Katrina was a city wide (well region wide) disaster that affected nearly all of the local area simultaneously in the course of a few hours. The Z-plague just isn't like that. The analogy is very poor. The writers keep coming up with improbable scenarios about how many people would get infected at once. I am not even arguing that some (many) people wouldn't start looting or turn bad but that just doesn't account for the near total simultaneous fall that the writers are narrating, though not really showing us, in FtWD. </p><p>It's odd how on this board so many talk about how the armed citizen is willing/available to serve as the militia, presumably in the event of an emergency, to supplement (or oppose in the case of oppression) the existing civil authorities but then assume that in this case it is immediately every-man-for-himself, back to the law-of-the-jungle and every institution crumbles immediately with no chance of recovery. </p><p></p><p>I think the WW-Z story line is much more believable overall. Having said that, I acknowledge again that we are a bunch of adults arguing about a make believe scenario of zombies - fun but absolutely unprovable. It kind of feels like the scene from "Stand By Me" where they are talking around the campfire saying things like, "If Mickey's a mouse, and Pluto's a dog, then what the heck is Goofy?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2798442, member: 18914"] Sorry but he I don't think he is spot on. Katrina was a city wide (well region wide) disaster that affected nearly all of the local area simultaneously in the course of a few hours. The Z-plague just isn't like that. The analogy is very poor. The writers keep coming up with improbable scenarios about how many people would get infected at once. I am not even arguing that some (many) people wouldn't start looting or turn bad but that just doesn't account for the near total simultaneous fall that the writers are narrating, though not really showing us, in FtWD. It's odd how on this board so many talk about how the armed citizen is willing/available to serve as the militia, presumably in the event of an emergency, to supplement (or oppose in the case of oppression) the existing civil authorities but then assume that in this case it is immediately every-man-for-himself, back to the law-of-the-jungle and every institution crumbles immediately with no chance of recovery. I think the WW-Z story line is much more believable overall. Having said that, I acknowledge again that we are a bunch of adults arguing about a make believe scenario of zombies - fun but absolutely unprovable. It kind of feels like the scene from "Stand By Me" where they are talking around the campfire saying things like, "If Mickey's a mouse, and Pluto's a dog, then what the heck is Goofy?" [/QUOTE]
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