An interesting take on zombies would be a virally mediated analgesia.
This kind of zombie plague has already happened before. Leprosy-induced neuropathy has been a thing for all of human history.
You'd just need to improve upon it.
There's a reason people born with congenital analgesia don't often survive childhood, and why leprosy is so lethal.
Restaurant workers scalding their forearms down to the muscle, warehouse workers not noticing they've crushed toes, etc
Or people who'd let illnesses go ignored until far too late.
All denied medical care
Whole economic sectors dissolving as the manual labor required literally tears apart the workers
You're in the waiting room next to a guy whose foot is rotting off. On the other side is a woman with 3rd degree burns on one entire arm
They'd be given nothing, perhaps a bipartisan means-tested $300 check.
You don't need a rage virus if a perfectly normal one can cause rage.
You're gonna need a virus that specifically targets either the peripheral nervous system, or does better: retroviral mutation of the PRDM12 gene.
For this, you need to engineer a lentivirus.
HIV is the best known lentivirus, but isn't ideal
https://t.co/PdKf2SDnL3
You want airborne transmission with high r0.
Measles would work perfectly if it had lentiviral characteristics.
Bam: highly contagious, incredibly infectious, airborne analgesia with fast incubation *and* added immunological suppression.
They will get all the rage they need when US society tries its bullshit on them.
Or rice https://t.co/TRTsg6UUwh
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Look at some historical examples of mass psychogenic illnesses: dancing plagues, laughing plagues, meowing nuns,
Here's a video on them:
They are interesting, but what is more interesting to me is Culture Bound Syndrome. https://t.co/hMKaApUMZn
Basically: mass psychogenic illness, and presentation of various mental illnesses, do not occur in a vacuum. Cultures shape them.
For instance, Koro.
There have been several mass outbreaks of men completely convinced their penises are shrinking, anchoring them with string at night so they don't get sucked back inside.
Almost all in Southeast
Here's a description of one outbreak in Hainan in 1984:
Here's a video on them:
They are interesting, but what is more interesting to me is Culture Bound Syndrome. https://t.co/hMKaApUMZn
Basically: mass psychogenic illness, and presentation of various mental illnesses, do not occur in a vacuum. Cultures shape them.
For instance, Koro.
There have been several mass outbreaks of men completely convinced their penises are shrinking, anchoring them with string at night so they don't get sucked back inside.
Almost all in Southeast
Here's a description of one outbreak in Hainan in 1984:
So I've mentioned the sharpie test and the tueller drill.
Another reason you are dead within 1.5 seconds of encountering your first fast zombie, is adrenaline.
Most people who get attacked with a knife and survive to talk about it, say they never even knew a knife was there.
Or that they'd been stabbed, until after the fact.
In many cases, they think they'd just been punched, and are completely surprised
One reason the adage is "the winner is the one who dies in the ambulance, not the gutter," is because it's entirely possible to receive a fatal wound, not realize it, and then inflict a fatal wound on the other guy without *him* realizing it.
A dozen times within 30 seconds.
The marker drill teaches how you *will* get cut, fatally, without realizing it.
In full adrenaline freakout, this is even more pronounced.
Another reason you are dead within 1.5 seconds of encountering your first fast zombie, is adrenaline.
The Tueller Drill is interesting.https://t.co/D6p3zRRV52
— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) December 20, 2020
Most people who get attacked with a knife and survive to talk about it, say they never even knew a knife was there.
Or that they'd been stabbed, until after the fact.
In many cases, they think they'd just been punched, and are completely surprised
One reason the adage is "the winner is the one who dies in the ambulance, not the gutter," is because it's entirely possible to receive a fatal wound, not realize it, and then inflict a fatal wound on the other guy without *him* realizing it.
A dozen times within 30 seconds.
The marker drill teaches how you *will* get cut, fatally, without realizing it.
In full adrenaline freakout, this is even more pronounced.
