tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post4254744553977366212..comments2024-03-28T08:02:30.057-04:00Comments on Word-Whores: Disease or Not Disease: That Is the QuestionK.A. Krantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06674754426001151828noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-21251540050023020092014-04-11T14:01:42.653-04:002014-04-11T14:01:42.653-04:00Have never watched the Walking Dead so can't c...Have never watched the Walking Dead so can't comment on the show. However, if you're looking for a scientific explanation Mira Grant's very well researched Newsflesh trilogy (Feed, Deadline, Blackout) has a similar everyone-who-dies-turns-into-a-zombie mechanism.Nicole Luikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11372595852638729630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-40390299955554776242014-04-11T13:51:58.910-04:002014-04-11T13:51:58.910-04:00I'm saying magic as well. It acts too weirdly ...I'm saying magic as well. It acts too weirdly for a disease imo.<br />And why haven't I seen zombie pigs yet, even though they heavily hinted in this season that animals are getting sick as well?!Sullivan McPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133432350331782496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-78734459124868871432014-04-11T13:11:43.845-04:002014-04-11T13:11:43.845-04:00Well, and see. My issue with the virus model is th...Well, and see. My issue with the virus model is that viruses are JUST packages designed to take over your cellular reproduction cycles so that your cells produce more virus. That's all they do. So how does that translate into animating *dead* cells? In a way, it's almost like the 'disease' inside a single zombie has formed a kind of hive mind that works in concert to somehow bring rotting neural tissue back to some semblance of function...Add into it that some of these corpses are walking without benefit of the muscular systems required for motion and you see why I lean toward calling BS on a disease. Dude. This is totally magic. :DMarcella Burnardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061631584953668058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-86034219633258431062014-04-11T08:17:25.559-04:002014-04-11T08:17:25.559-04:00Well, to be honest - finding out someone has an im...Well, to be honest - finding out someone has an immunity is going to either be slim or cold comfort at this point. You're either going to die and not turn, in which case it's a little late - or you get bit. Maybe you don't turn, but maybe you die anyway because you're being torn apart by other zombies, or your friends kill you because you've been bit and they expect you to turn.<br /><br />It's a really odd sort of virus because it doesn't actually appear to trigger until the body itself is dead. Which okay. I get viruses can be dormant until the situation is good, but what exactly is it living on? Most viruses go dormant when they're not in a host situation (or carrier). If you're a carrier when you're alive, what is it about death that turns on the virus? Lack of brain activity? Blood flow?<br /><br />(Obviously I have too much time to ponder this show...)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08810952821295312008noreply@blogger.com