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In a Zombie Apocalypse the Military Would Be Toast
National Review ^ | September 28, 2015 | David French

Posted on 09/29/2015 7:23:07 AM PDT by C19fan

Jonah, I’m afraid you have a bit too much confidence in our boys in digital-print camouflage. As I understand the dynamics of the Walking Dead universe (at least as illustrated in Fear the Walking Dead), the apocalypse starts when a wave of “the flu” sweeps through the country — except this flu is rapidly fatal if you’re symptomatic. Note that several people “turn” without being bitten. The sickest members of society die first (junkies and the homeless), but then people start falling like flies within 24 hours or so of the first victims. They immediately reanimate and start munching everyone around them.

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Mr. French and Jonah Goldberg debating the important issues. :0 I never read "World War Z" but from I gathered the US military tried initially to stop the zombie apocalypse as if they were fighting the Warsaw Pact in Germany and it did not end well.
1 posted on 09/29/2015 7:23:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The movie gave a happier ending than the book did.


2 posted on 09/29/2015 7:25:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: C19fan

Under Barry our military will be too busy hanging drapes and saluting rainbow flags.


3 posted on 09/29/2015 7:27:51 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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"but then people start falling like flies within 24 hours or so of the first victims. They immediately reanimate and start munching everyone around them."

Sounds a lot like the 'Mosselimb Refugee' invasion of Western Eroupe.
4 posted on 09/29/2015 7:28:51 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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I think the old-school, slow moving Zombies would probably be easy to stop. Initially, for every one of them, you’d have hundreds (even thousands) of armed people.

The fast moving zombies of “28 Days Later” would be another matter. The incubation time is also key. Days would be easy. Hours harder. Minutes....impossible.

The wildcard factor in the spread would be people who can’t accept that their loved ones are zombies (or zombifying). These people would be legion and detrimental to any quarantine efforts.


5 posted on 09/29/2015 7:29:49 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Kartographer

Yup—Muslims are the REAL Zombie apocalypse.


6 posted on 09/29/2015 7:30:26 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: C19fan

Why?

On all places such as FreeRepublic do we continue to discuss this falderol as if it were REAL and an object possibility?

There are no zombies, there will be no zombies. I hear Millenials speak of this an objective fact in the future.


7 posted on 09/29/2015 7:32:59 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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There are no zombies? Obviously you’ve never seen a liberal in an obamatrance. :)


8 posted on 09/29/2015 7:38:57 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jonty30
Note that several people “turn” without being bitten.

The guy obviously doesn't fully grasp the Walking Dead situation. People don't "turn" without being bitten; they "turn" when they die. In other words, everybody is already infected and turn into "walkers" or "zombies" or whatever you want to call them when they die regardless of whether or not they were bitten. People who have been bitten "turn" technically when they die -- which may be accelerated from the increased levels of the virus/infection.

9 posted on 09/29/2015 7:39:12 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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“In a Zombie Apocalypse the Military Would Be Toast”

What, wait...the zombies would take time to cook them?


10 posted on 09/29/2015 7:43:15 AM PDT by moovova
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To: C19fan
never read "World War Z" but from I gathered the US military tried initially to stop the zombie apocalypse as if they were fighting the Warsaw Pact in Germany and it did not end well.

Zactly. Throw a grenade and the Zed keeps coming, by the thousands. They don't surrender. They do not get shot and have to be medivac'ed out of harms way.

11 posted on 09/29/2015 7:53:51 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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Correct; Abrahams dug in, MOP gear, stealth aircraft, net-centric interlinked front line solidiers, etc.

It was a rout.

Never read the book, but the abridged audio was very well done, multi-voiced, gripping.


12 posted on 09/29/2015 7:54:45 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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On all places such as FreeRepublic do we continue to discuss this falderol as if it were REAL and an object possibility?

Discussing a "zombie apocalypse" is a way to speculate on dealing with an environment where civilization has rapidly collapsed, and people are dealing with hordes of hostile "beasts on two legs".

Somewhat like how we would be dealing with a collapse which resulted in EBT cards no longer working.

13 posted on 09/29/2015 7:55:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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It’s a model of a major civilization collapse. One can contemplate and discuss strategies and tactics without the emotional baggage of a too real scenario, and no one ever gets accused of being racis, jingoistic or xenophobic.


14 posted on 09/29/2015 7:57:39 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I agree. This mass cultural obsession with zombies is absurd. The amount of time put into debating zombie scenarios would be laughable, if it weren’t quite so baffling.


15 posted on 09/29/2015 7:59:13 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Exsurge, Domine, et judica causam tuam)
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To: null and void

You raise a good point - TWD is a good cultural projection for viewers to interpret zombies as being whatever evil “Them” they like to see them as.


16 posted on 09/29/2015 8:03:31 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

You'll never see the Wizard of Oz the same again...

17 posted on 09/29/2015 8:04:59 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: PapaBear3625
Discussing a "zombie apocalypse" is a way to speculate on dealing with an environment where civilization has rapidly collapsed, and people are dealing with hordes of hostile "beasts on two legs".

Somewhat like how we would be dealing with a collapse which resulted in EBT cards no longer workin

I just love the liberals and the media ignoring just that fact..... Substitute blacks , muslims in a guerilla national war and there you have it. Complete breakdown of the country is just 3 days without food delivery and 1 week without electricity and water.

That's all the show REALLY is about. Pretty much any SHTF scenario with TEOTWAWKI is going to make the same show... virus, zombies, nukes, asteroids, meteors, etc....

18 posted on 09/29/2015 8:26:22 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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There are no zombies, there will be no zombies.

Wanna bet? Turn off the millions of EBT cards and see what happens. ;)

19 posted on 09/29/2015 8:30:41 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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take a look at long time stoners and you have zombies right there.


20 posted on 09/29/2015 8:34:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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