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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5399266" data-attributes="member: 19675">That is the kind of point I was talking about re: psychology, but the fact of the matter is, I'd be damn surprised if anything short of a bird-flu fast pandemic would disrupt a 1st world nation's military hierarchy and civil government in under a year...and zombie syndrome simply doesn't spread that fast.  It can't if its sole means of transmission is via direct injury (bites, scratches, etc.).I'll say this, though- the infrastructure to fail first in any zombpocalypse will be the medical services.  They're basically unarmed, rarely are trained combatants, are trained to go towards the injured (which zombies resemble), and despite precautions will be exposed to blood, bones, and aerosolized necrotic tissue...even in the REAL world.Zombies, if nothing else, are flammable...and because all of their liquid intake is from eating (we never see them drinking), their flesh is dehydrated.  Therefore, they are more flammable than we are.  Incendiaries of all kind are going to be ordered up, and not just by the military.  I'm sure that molotov cocktails and aerosol flamethrowers are pretty easy to make, and not just by gamer nerds- trust me, frat boys know them too.And, FWIW, believe me when I tell you there are a decent number of gamers & sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans in the military...someone would figure it out and pass it up the chain of command, probably right after a successful engagement.Bird flu spreads orders of magnitude faster than ZA.  ZA would spread pretty slowly, especially once it was identified.The thing is, the military wouldn't have to develop new stuff, 99% of what they'd need is already in their stockpile and there are soldiers trained to use them.And believe me, the military is pretty good about assessing the effectiveness of weapons vs target types.  They'd figure out the machine guns and exotic rounds wouldn't be the best pretty quickly and switch to tactics that are either very accurate (snipers) or weapons that obliterate huge areas with the right kind of stuff (incendiaries, controlled demolitions).The only holdup is the psychology of using those weapons in cities.</blockquote>

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