Someone liked this so now you’re stuck with my disjoined rambles.
So technically being bitten doesn’t turn you, it just overloads your poor immune system with a multitude of different bacteria (even more the longer the dead ferment). So unless you go to hospital and see a doctor, not possible in the middle of the apocalypse -unfortunately, or disinfect and take some antibiotics it’s very unlikely you’d survive, but in the walking dead that’s a sure fire way to turn anyway.
However even if I was to bite a normal person now they’d still have to go to hospital and get it checked out especially if I had broken the skin so even without the dead rising, biting people is still a killer if done correctly/ if you break the skin (making them bleed is important! Gotta mix the blood in the saliva that’s the real killer here as humans have very dirty bacteria filled mouths).
Anyway, already getting sidetracked over here, the walking dead virus, and I will debate the idea of it being a “virus” with my limited doctor-y knowledge, would cause the body to react a lot like covid caused people to react by kickstarting a cytokine storm.
But, I hear you ask, Kramphyx what about the people who were asymptomatic during covid? What of the carries? Well I am making the suggestion that it’s the same in the walking dead universe (TWDU). Some people will be more obvious in their infection, and would likely die from in, and especially in the earlier days before the world fell to its knees, people could survive the infection, some wouldn’t even show as infected but could pass it along and a minute few would *gasp* be immune to it!
Being immune to turning however will not save you. You can still die. No one is truly safe in this world.
They called it wildlife virus so it has to be right? Wrong. I propose it’s a fungus. Or maybe even a bacterial fungus.
So truthfully I don’t actually know the full difference between the three but from the very limited knowledge I have I know it can’t be a virus. Viruses can’t reanimate people. Viruses die with the host so if you have a virus and you die, then the virus dies with you.
A fungus though? Technically it’s its own separate thing, doesn’t need the person to be alive, might actually be easier for it if they host was dead as I theorise that the root cause of the Wildfire Virus is actually what Kirkman joked about.
Wildlife was a space spore.
Thanks for hearing me ramble… what was I meant to be talking about again?
