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To: Secret Agent Man
Carl and rick should have been weakened enough when injured badly to turn. Both almost died, lost a lot of blood.

There seems to be a theme that people heal far more quickly on the show than is realistic (Carl, Rick, Randall, Shane -- his ankle). Probably just sloppy writing, but it could be that the infection speeds up recovery in some way.
40 posted on 03/19/2012 10:56:51 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: jjsheridan5

The other theme is that people don’t run out of ammo until the writers want to kill them off. I can’t stand how many shots people get off and never reload.

The final thing that gets me is that people are not far more concerned about scratches getting walker blood/material into them, or just basic hygenic fear and making sure they tend wounds, keep clean and if they’ve touched walkers and gotten blood/brain/flesh on them to like decontaminate quickly. Because if you are bit you will turn. They can’t just have it that a non-lethal bite can turn you but getting zombie virus in your scratches or cuts can’t. A virus doesn’t care how it gets inside you. It will work either way. A non-killing bite has to work the same way as zombie material getting into cuts/scratches/getting covered in their blood when killing a zombie and not washing it off right away.


45 posted on 03/20/2012 1:27:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: jjsheridan5

Don’t know. You don’t see any zombies’ gaping skin cuts healing up. If anything you’d think when your immune system gets weaker from overuse/can’t recharge under constantly fighting off an infection it can’t kill off, then you stress the body further with a bad injury, it should allow the virus to potentially take over - just like a bad chest cold or flu can allow pneumonia to set in as a secondary infection.


48 posted on 03/20/2012 1:38:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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