28th June 2005, 6:38 PM
Would they? They would only gain numbers if they infected someone. I'm not saying humans are super agile, but at the very least we would move a lot faster and more intelligently than half decayed idiot versions of ourselves.
At first people would get attacked and all, but after that, we'd be able to deal with them. Let's assume this virus got to humans first for this scenario. What do the humans do now? Attack a wild animal? Hah, good luck. Thanks to humanity's notorious terrible back problems as a result of being all standupy, we'd be lucky to chase down a mouse, and with intelligence completely absent, zombies would be lucky to attack a dead mouse... Oh wait...
At first people would get attacked and all, but after that, we'd be able to deal with them. Let's assume this virus got to humans first for this scenario. What do the humans do now? Attack a wild animal? Hah, good luck. Thanks to humanity's notorious terrible back problems as a result of being all standupy, we'd be lucky to chase down a mouse, and with intelligence completely absent, zombies would be lucky to attack a dead mouse... Oh wait...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)