What if the Walking Dead was Real Hello and welcome back to Lifeís Biggest
Questions, Iím Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Humanity has been relatively obsessed with zombies for decades.
Countless films, shows, novels, and comics have been created on the subject, and delve
into what would happen in a world of zombies.
And now, itís our turn.
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Now get ready, itís time to ask the question: What if the Walking Dead was Real?
First of all, there would be a significant change to how death was dealt with.
Death would be far more common; in a world of such danger, where humanity is once again
cast into the role of prey, survivors would need to learn to accept death as a normal
part of life.
Unexpected death would once again be a relatively common occurrence, and not just at the hands
of the zombies.
Disease would also be a huge problem.
With little to no access to medicine or medical professionals, even diseases that are considered
relatively innocuous now could be fatal in a world infested by zombies.
Particularly a few years in, any medicine that hadnít already been taken and used would
likely have expired and no longer be effective.
Without new medicine being produced, or vaccinations being administered, disease would become much
more prevalent, and would be more deadly.
This problem would be further exacerbated with the limited amounts of cleaning supplies,
which would lead to a buildup of dangerous bacteria.
On that topic, a number of other supplies would eventually become unusable as well.
After a couple years, most gasoline would be ineffective.
As the years went on, batteries would begin to lose their charge, so flashlights, radios,
computers, cars, and worst of all, game boys, would eventually become unusable without an
alternative source of power.
Humanity would likely split into smaller groups, like we see in Walking Dead.
We would likely form groups similar to those of our ancestors in the Pleistocene era.
This could actually be beneficial, since living closer to our evolutionary environment could
have positive effects on human psychology.
However, as Iím sure you know, humans tend to take group membership a bit too far, which
would lead to infighting amongst various groups, as seen in The Walking Dead.
That said, all would not be lost.
As stated in our video on ìHow could you survive a zombie apocalypse,î one very effective
strategy would be to move to more secluded areas.
In these places, like islands or difficult to access spots, zombies would have trouble
getting there, particularly if defenses were put in place.
This would allow people to rebuild and perhaps create a new society.
But how could a new society come about in a world infested by zombies?
Well, one thing that is often left out of zombie films and shows is the idea that the
zombies would eventually dwindle in numbers, and even disappear completely.
While there are a lot of them, if one or many groups of survivors managed to dig in and
find an easily defensible area, they could very well systematically exterminate the zombie
threat.
Particularly on smaller islands, the number of zombies would be somewhat limited.
Since they donít reproduce, if the survivors were careful not to allow themselves to turn,
and continued luring zombies to their death, there would eventually be no more left.
This would actually be relatively easy, especially if the zombies were as slow and easily dealt
with as they are in The Walking Dead.
Thereís also a good chance that the military would play a large role in this extermination.
One issue that some have with Walking Dead is the near-complete lack of military presence.
This seems rather unrealistic; if random civilians are able to survive, chances are a fair number
of soldiers trained for combat would as well.
This would greatly facilitate the extermination of the zombie menace, and would also help
to keep order amongst the survivors.
Military states would probably be the norm, only giving way to more democratic systems
once the zombie problem was gone.
However, even if all the zombies were exterminated, there would still be long-lasting effects.
If the virus remained, people would forever need to be highly cautious.
One accidental death within a compound could cause someone to turn, and attack others,
like we saw when a certain character got sick in a certain building, died in the showers,
and turned a number of people.
Iím trying to avoid spoilers, youíre welcome.
As long as the virus was in effect, survivors would need to be constantly vigilant, or granny
might kill the whole family after dying in her sleep.
And now we return to our question: What if the Walking Dead was Real?
Well, death and disease would become far more prevalent, as medicine and cleaning supplies
become harder and harder to come by.
Humanity would likely find itself in smaller tribes, similar to that of our evolutionary
environment.
If a group found a secluded or defensible area, they could potentially begin to rebuild
a sort of society, and even begin exterminating the zombie menace.
There would likely be a good deal of military support in this extermination, but even with
the zombies gone, life for the survivors would likely never be the same.
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Furthermore, headshots would be far less prevalent in the real world.
This is one thing that bothers a number of fans, particularly yours truly.
Just about everyone who can hold a pistol suddenly gains the uncanny ability to shoot
a moving target in the head from 30 feet like itís nothing.
Really, the only time someone misses is when the plot demands it.
But the real world has no writers, the real world doesnít need a story to ìtrackî,
or protagonists who need to look awesome.
In the real world, people would miss the head an awful lot.
Heads are small.
Certain parts of the world actually believe zombies to be real.
For example, Haitian folklore tells of the dead being reanimated by a sorcerer or witch,
called a bokor.
These zombies act as slaves for whomever raised them from the dead.
There was even an article in the Haitian criminal code passed in 1864 which officially recognized
the existence of zombies.
However, The Walking Dead takes an approach that we in the west are somewhat more familiar
with.
In the show and comics, a virus infects humanity that causes them to turn into a flesh-eating
zombie when they die, only able to be killed by trauma to the head.
How would the world look if this was a reality?