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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tetsubo" data-source="post: 4039599" data-attributes="member: 1250">I just can't figure out how you get large hordes of zombies.There are 300 million people in the US. Lets say that one percent of that number are corpses right now. Many of those that have been buried just aren't going to be able to rise, even in a Romero style "any dead person becomes a ghoul" scenario. And most zombie plagues seem to use the disease vector model. So, 3 million corpses stand up and start attacking humans. The first 24 - 48 hours would be absolute chaos. The number of zombies could easily double to 6 million. And then the living smarten up. We out number the deadheads by 50:1. Those are pretty good odds. Even if you take out the elderly and children, you would still have something like 25:1 odds in the favor of the living. Even without factoring in the existence of a *lot* of firearms in the US, twenty-five humans could take out a single zombie with broken chairs.There just isn't anyway to get *millions* of dead in huge hordes attacking the living. The scenario would play out like -Shaun of the Dead-. Lots of initial chaos and then life goes back to normal with the addition of zombies... Even in a Romero World people would quickly adjust. Humans are very good at killing things...</blockquote>