I’m not talking about the zombies. I’m referring to the still non-zombies who are already infected (according to Jenner’s whisper). As I said the reason is probably sloppy writing, which is endemic in this show, but the idea is that if the virus has the ability to reanimate the dead, then maybe it can also speed recovery in the living.
Maybe, but on any level you look at it, even the virus’, it doesn’t make sense.
I believe there is a fatal flaw in the virus of this storyline. It defies how life works, including any known virii, non lethal or lethal. If a dead body has no blood left in it, how can a virus reanimate it? I would accept the reanimation premise if the dead people had an intact circulatory system, but most reanimated bodies do not.
If there’s only half a body left, how, from a metabolic viewpoint, can it be brought back to life and continue to survive? How’s it transporting energy at a cellular level?
These dead bodies we see all the time - why are not more of them falling apart? Those without blood in them having lost a hand, arm, bottom half, or had an arterial wound - they would have to start decaying and breaking down. Yet almost all those still moving are complete, not dropping arms, or parts as the body decays. There would be necrosis occuring because we see they have wounds and injuries not being fixed, they would gangrene and rot and we do not see that. It doesn’t make sense the virus that reanimates a body, requiring incredible internal power to do that - can only do that, but not repair it? They obviously have a dead body smell and that that does not change over time, so the virus is not healing these bodies or making them work better, so the conclusion is they are dead bodies, just animated. And what this means is that they should be falling apart rather quickly due to decay. It doesn’t make sense the virus can somehow keep a dead body from falling apart but be powerful enough to reanimate a dead body in the first place.
Just because the brain stem is working, the body can move and see and want to eat? These people would be in what we call comas or persistent vegetative states. I think this is the “metachlorian” flaw in the premise of this series.
Lethal viruses kill off the host and not one ever brings it back to life. That’s why they are lethal. I know this is the whole deal with this being ‘different’ but I think it defies willful suspension of disbelief. In the closest other scenario of “28 Days” it was clear it was blood borne transmission, those infected got weaker and died in a week if they didn’t feed on an uninfected person, and people were very worried about contamination via food and animals and surfaces. I think Walking Dead is more realistic with the timeframe it took for a body to ‘turn’ - generally hours, rather than 28 Days’ almost instantly after infection.
They’d have been closer to scientific reality with a virus closer to the kind in the movies of 28 days/weeks.