Max Brooks: World War Z

Red___Sword said:

My point is that we can (and should) put more interest on phase one of the supposed crysis, as we SDF good for.

Sidenote: I didn't make a good expression of Conservation of mass previously, "BioHazard" "Resident Evil" kind of stuff made it looks like a tiny injection of infection, give you a massive body mutation ("add muscle" esp) in a short time, (so that *normal* society can not withstand that kind of punch, and collaps) so short that humanity can not react about the crysis.

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airsuperiority said:

Sorry, but did you spelled crisis as crysis deliberately? Crysis was the game about alien invasions and NKs getting really strong.

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Red___Sword said:

Well, bird-flu can kill you so efficiently, yet you need to wait the necro-virus to infect ENOUGH people to overthrow the *normal* world to get you hopelessly killed... yet human society deal with stuff like variola and bird-flu with certain degree of efficiency, that our *normal* society can stands the onslaught of such bio-crisis without "fated" social collapsing... I think those things found in fictions only, should stays in fiction.

I reserve the alien topic, although it is an unpleasant topic (that human is hopelessly fated doomed), it is a much reasonable topic compare to zombies. Just my thought.

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Study_Conclusion said:

An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead. While aggressive quarantine may eradicate the infection, this is unlikely to happen in practice. A cure would only result in some
humans surviving the outbreak, although they will still coexist with zombies. Only suf-
ficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the
available resources can be mustered in time.
Furthermore, these results assumed that the timescale of the outbreak was short, so that
the natural birth and death rates could be ignored. If the timescale of the outbreak increases,
then the result is the doomsday scenario: an outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse
of civilisation, with every human infected, or dead. This is because human births and
deaths will provide the undead with a limitless supply of new bodies to infect, resurrect
and convert. Thus, if zombies arrive, we must act quickly and decisively to eradicate them
before they eradicate us.
The key difference between the models presented here and other models of infectious
disease is that the dead can come back to life. Clearly, this is an unlikely scenario if taken
literally, but possible real-life applications may include allegiance to political parties, or
diseases with a dormant infection.
This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the first mathematical analysis of an outbreak of zombie infection. While the scenarios considered are obviously not realistic, it is nevertheless
instructive to develop mathematical models for an unusual outbreak. This demonstrates
the flexibility of mathematical modelling and shows how modelling can respond to a wide
variety of challenges in ‘biology’.
In summary, a zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilisation, unless it
is dealt with quickly. While aggressive quarantine may contain the epidemic, or a cure may
lead to coexistence of humans and zombies, the most effective way to contain the rise of
the undead is to hit hard and hit often. As seen in the movies, it is imperative that zombies
are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble

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airsuperiority said:

There's a movie coming out called Contagion, which talks of a mass-killing disease. Maybe it's worth to take a look and see how factual or realistic the movie goes. A zombie apocolypse will definitely solve a lot of problems at hand: conflicts in ME, tax, overpopulation, resources shortage, etc etc.

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