They are the living dead.
Our nightmares made out of rotting
flesh and they love brains more than Andrew Zimmern
Zombies have recently been the obsession of
almost every aspect of pop culture from television,
movies, and graphic literature.
Who could argue against our morbid fascination
with walking corpses who come in droves, ready
to tear civilization apart with their insatiable
hunger?
We have all imagined how inevitably close
the Zombie Apocalypse could be with all the
terrifying diseases and pathogens that are
being discovered and ones that are being engineered
in underground laboratories somewhere in the
globe.
But for all the fantasy and imagination that
we put and invest in our grisly end at the
rotting hand of a zombie, we may be over estimating
the chances of a Zombie Apocalypse actually
happening in real life.
There are, after all, multiple factors to
consider to find out just how much of a chance
we stand against a wave of the attacking undead.
So in this video, we are counting down to
5 good reasons why the zombie apocalypse would
really just fail even before it starts.
5.
Decomposition
Let’s start with the blatantly obvious.
Zombies are walking corpses and what corpses
do best is decay overtime.
Let’s assume that a zombie apocalypse did
happen and we are all thrown into mass hysteria
and panic.
Our deceased loved ones would crawl up from
the dirt and start knocking on our doors to
eat our brains and infect us with the same
unknown pathogen that compelled them to come
back to life as mindless automatons.
However, despite the initial wave of horror
humanity has to go through for a few days,
the problem will pretty much take care of
itself.
Realistically, it takes three full years for
a dead body to be reduced to skeletal remains.
However, it only takes a few months for decay
and putrefaction to take over a dead body
– even if its supernaturally moving – and
render it immobile as limbs would fall one
after the other.
Humanity could pretty much go on with daily
life with little nuisance from these flesh
eating monsters if we don’t mind the smell.
Running away from them won’t even be as
necessary as the movies would lead us to believe
because, certainly, motor function is going
to be the first thing out the window after
a few weeks of rotting.
4.
Disease Control
We have to give medical institutions around
the world some credit for doing their jobs
in making sure that deadly diseases are contained
in the best way possible.
Over the course of human history, disease
and illnesses spread like wildfire from one
nation to the other up until the advancement
of the medical sciences.
From the invention of vaccines to the discovery
of new treatment for otherwise incurable viruses,
medicine and science has saved humanity from
being wiped out off the face of the earth.
Also, in this age of information, we are pretty
much knowledgeable in how diseases spread.
Whether they’re airborne, or through bacteria
found on suspicious surfaces, or transmission
from a person with a disease, we are well-aware
of the necessary steps in preventing ourselves
from being contaminated.
And how does one get infected by the Zombie
virus?
Through a bite.
We would have to be pretty dull to allow ourselves
direct contact with a zombie and get ourselves
bitten since we are a generation that have
managed to push small pox to extinction and
have eradicated rabies in developed countries.
The only way of being turned into a zombie
is if we allow ourselves to be bitten without
second thought.
Also, institutions and organizations such
as the Center for Disease Control and the
World Health Organization have safeguards
that prevent pandemics from spreading such
as quarantines that contain infected communities.
If we can manage not to catch the flu, we
can manage not to turn into zombies.
3.
Climate Conditions and the Elements
Placing their rapidly decaying bodies in consideration,
a zombie apocalypse would be easily ended
by climate conditions.
To put it in perspective, a fully grown, well
nourished, healthy human being is still susceptible
to the changes in weather conditions.
Humans can die from dehydration from extreme
heat and can be rendered immobile by pneumonia
from extreme cold.
Basically, if you are a rotting piece of moving
flesh, your chances of surviving a drought
or a snowstorm is rendered to zero.
Also, consider the typical zombie diet: living
or rotting flesh from animals or humans.
Since their bodies are eating machines and,
we would assume, have no other function to
process nutrition, a zombie that is exposed
to the elements will have no natural means
to fight off any kind of infection or disease
because of their lack of antibodies.
Under the intense heat of the sun, zombies
would turn into dried up pieces of human jerky
in a matter of hours and in climate conditions
that reach below zero, frostbite would instantly
stop them in their tracks as bits and pieces
of them chip away like fragile teacups.
Also, another factor that we seem to have
overlooked because of the hype is that, as
zombies are mindlessly exposed to the elements,
so too are they exposed to wildlife.
Imagine a zombie incursion in, let’s say,
Colorado.
It won’t be long when mountain lions would
rip apart a zombie horde without any difficulty.
Or, let’s say, a zombie invasion in an Asian
jungle.
They would have to go toe to toe against behemoths
like elephants and the occasional big cats
that are part of the wildlife in that region
of the world.
2.
Hollywood is on our Side
If there is one thing that we can get from
what Hollywood has taught us about an impending
zombie apocalypse, it’s how we can defend
ourselves.
Let’s just say, for instance, that a zombie
virus outbreak happens tomorrow and for the
next few weeks we need to defend ourselves
until the military can scramble jets and send
in tanks to end the crisis.
Zombies are pretty easy to subdue that a blow
to the head with a baseball bat will pretty
much do the job.
If we need to find refuge, we know exactly
where to run or how exactly to build defenses
to keep the living dead away from us.
A shopping mall is a good enough fortification
with enough supplies that could last a long
time for anyone.
And if you have skills with firearms, chances
are, you are already taking care of business
by eliminating any zombie threat to your home
or community.
Whatever the method, it is entirely safe to
say that Hollywood has thoroughly prepared
us for any kind of zombie apocalypse that
we don’t even need to fear the day it comes.
1.
Military Might
Let’s be real here.
If a zombie apocalypse does happen, it will
be over in a matter of days.
We have to give credit to our troops and their
training as well as the advancements that
the military sciences has had over the years.
Technology is very much on their side when
it comes to defense systems and special weaponry.
They do not even have to fear the dreaded
zombie bite since military gear is so sophisticated
that it can shield a soldier from high calibre
rounds.
Imagine what layers upon layers of Kevlar
and specialized armor could do to the rotting
teeth of a zombie.
you think a zombie can chew through a tank and if we are really paranoid just send some drones and drop some bombs on these zombies
