Zombie apocalypse would wipe out humankind in just 100 days, according to university research

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 01/05/2017 | Helena Horton

[BenLurkin]

Using their hypothesis — that a zombie has a 90 per cent chance of turning a human into a zombie once it has found said human, and that a zombie could find at least one human a day — they predicted how long the population could hold out using the SIR model, an epidemiological model that describes the spread of a disease throughout a population.

Using the model, they split the population into three categories; the susceptible population (S), zombie (Z) and dead (D).

The lifespan of a zombie, they worked out, goes thus: S,Z,D. Natural birth and death rates did not feature in the working, as 100 days as the zombie epidemic took place over 100 days, which meant the natural births and deaths were negligible compared to the zombie virus.

The model works out how much infected humans come into contact with non-infected humans, and how likely it is one will spread the disease to the other.

Human survival rates were pitiful, with only a tiny amount of the population alive over the duration of the zombie apocalypse.

In a more hopeful follow-up study, students worked out humans could prolong the survival of the species by killing off zombies and having babies in the nightmare scenario.

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“Zombie Apocalypse” is just shorthand for the urban aftermath of the financial collapse of the EBT system.

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Failure of EBT payments to clear nationally would be a remarkable "where the rubber meets the road" moment.
We would see rioting, looting, and arson the likes of which we have never seen in this country.

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