Fundamentally it matters because they would die of dehydration well before they’d die of hunger. But regardless, non-expiring zombies are a different threat than plague victims whose batteries run out. But also! If they aren’t dead, is it established that they’re incurable? That implies a different moral imperative.
“Are we holing up for a month, or are we building a new civilization behind high walls?”
I think, judging by what the scientist is saying at the Research Lab as the Animal Rights advocates are freeing the chimp, that curing “rage” is the whole point, but that they just hadn’t gotten there yet. The experiments were still in the preliminary stage “In order to find a cure, you must first understand it,” or something like that, and the outbreaks in the first six months probably hadn’t allowed enough time yet for an alternative research site to be set up, but after 28 years? I would hope so. I don’t know who’s involved in this upcoming film, so I guess we’ll see.
Fundamentally it matters because they would die of dehydration well before they’d die of hunger. But regardless, non-expiring zombies are a different threat than plague victims whose batteries run out. But also! If they aren’t dead, is it established that they’re incurable? That implies a different moral imperative.
Exactly.
“Are we holing up for a month, or are we building a new civilization behind high walls?”
I think, judging by what the scientist is saying at the Research Lab as the Animal Rights advocates are freeing the chimp, that curing “rage” is the whole point, but that they just hadn’t gotten there yet. The experiments were still in the preliminary stage “In order to find a cure, you must first understand it,” or something like that, and the outbreaks in the first six months probably hadn’t allowed enough time yet for an alternative research site to be set up, but after 28 years? I would hope so. I don’t know who’s involved in this upcoming film, so I guess we’ll see.