I think when you look back at the old
school zombie stereotypes (and by old school I mean the movies of the 1950s),
you immediately thought about zombies crawling up out of the ground in the
formal wear that they were buried in.
I think that was the plot of a lot of
50s movies. Some weird alien rock would plunge to Earth and then corpses would
start busting out of their coffins. A little before my time, but I certainly
remember that being on a Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror episode because the two
John Smith’s argue over which grave it belongs to. “John Smith 1852?” “My
mistake.” But in those stories, zombies are shuffling around saying “Brains!
Brains!”
Our sortie sweeps have found
graveyards to be 100% undisturbed and I take that as a saving grace. There are
enough zoms staggering about as it is, I could not imagine the population
numbers we would have to deal with if every corpse in America was clawing their
way out of coffins.
And clearly, these things don’t want
to eat brains specifically. They just want meat. It is that instinctual need to
feed but for some reason they want to feast on uninfected flesh.
This just continues to reinforce the
deadliness of the Kharon Virus. You have to be infected to reanimate. You can
reanimate regardless of the amount of physical damage your body has sustained.
And the only way to put one of these shambling horrors down is to destroy the
brain.
I know this makes it seem hopeless but
we have all taken a very strong stance. This is a viral outbreak. Since it is a
virus then either there is a cure somewhere in nature or we just have to
outlast it. And right here, right now, barricaded inside a grocery store is not
a bad place to be.
Our crew is going out and ransacking
local places on a regular basis to get us supplies that we need. Life is hard
but we are doing quite well, all things considered. Still, I am curious about
something. Thinking about scenarios involving carrier monkeys and all that, is
it possible that a segment of the human race could be immune to this Kharon
virus? And does their body generate antibodies that could be made into an
antidote?
I am 100% certain that a person killed
by the virus and then reanimates is pretty much dead and gone. There is no
medical cure for that one. But if a person infected early by the Kharon virus
was given a dose of medicine – let’s call the Herculean serum – could they
cheat the boatman and survive in the land of the dead? I mean a cure has to be
out there somewhere?
Right?
Please, God, let there be a cure.
