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Why all the numbers and such? Well for me I need to have facts and info to build off of, even in the case of making up a fictional infection survival rate. I tend to do the same when designing plots for D&D campaigns and the such. Don’t even get me started on designing gizmo’s for games and the likes I tend to sit down and draw out plans a schematics for stuff even if it requires a fire elemental and the likes to power ;p
So for a zombie survival story I’m looking to make the concept real to me and that means setting up limits and reasons for things being the way they are even if in character I don’t know why it is.
Now I can sit down and start thinking of what I would do bad good stupid indifferent.
Now are these all the decisions I would make for real no. not likely at least , are some of them things I’ve thought about already ? ya they are. Does that make me crazy well…. Hi, I’m Kevin have we meet yet ?
You all should know I have a few loose screws and oddities by now.
Incubation time 24hours after exposure till initial symptoms, 48 - 72 hours till death
DR = death rate cause I’m lazy
DR 99.99 % among +blood types
DR 90% among - blood types with the exception of AB-
AB- are carriers they do not experience illness till death from other causes
Given a population of 500,000 and a 100% infection
3,500 of AB- would not become sick; they become carriers and zombies after death
417,000 of + blood types would perish and not resurrect
79,500 of - Blood type would become sick and perish with 71,550 of those becoming zombies
The remaining -blood types 7,950 would be carriers and could change into a zombie given the right situation or death.
So I would have 11450 survivors out of 500,000 or 2.25% of the population of United States would survive.
The population of Delaware County is 550,000 per 2007 census information
Imagine the competition for resources and supplies initially among just the people living in Delaware County during an outbreak.
Only other given initial factor to determine survivors or extreme mutations is vaccinations if I want to increase the numbers of survivors or provide a group that is immune and a non carrier pool of survivors or have a really bad ass zombie pool. But I’ll leave that for later right now
Crawlers, runners and spitters oh my, Crawlers, runners and spitters, oh shit it’s a hunter RUN! Should keep me busy for awhile. Not to mention the wonderful cesspool that is humanity and the stuff we do to each other.
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