(I forgot my train of thought on this, but here goes:) Because if it's "something else" that's just raising bodies from the dead, then no matter when they died, they'd rise. If it's a product of something entering the global ecosystem at a specific time and has only infected the "living" at that time, then if you dig up an old body prior to the outbreak time, the body will not rise from the dead. Unless, as you say, whatever this is is incapable of still infecting dead bodies no matter the time frame. Me thinks it still needs a few portions of the brain to do its dirty work, so I doubt any skeletons will be walking around. Again, I lost my train of thought on this so this may or may not have been what I was thinking at the time I wrote that post.

 

i wonder if the zombie flashes was what rick saw cause he was angry and everyone is infected and gettin mad makes it progress further ... hmmm .

 

Never thought about this in fact. Good point

 

I don't know. Rick said the Dr. Jensen said they're all infected... If being infected was enough to make people go crazy, wouldn't all of them being acting weird and going nuts?

I don't think the blood on Rick's knife is what turned Shane. I know it's been said that the virus isn't airborne but I refuse to believe that. There's no other plausible explanation for why this would be a world wide epidemic.

 

So if you catch it through the air, it takes longer to infect you?

 

Everyones infected Rick could've killed Shane anyway and he'd come back as long as his brain wasn't damaged.

 

What I don't get is why there are so many zombies? There should be more living people than dead.

 

Because regardless how people died they became a walker as long as the brain wasn't damaged.

 

Yes I know but how many people die on an average day? Not more than the population that would still be alive

 

I always thought Otis infected Shane when he yanked his hair from his head. It looked kinda angry when Shane shaved his head. O was scratching & clawing to free himself. I surmised he had walker blood under his nails, it dawned on me when Shane reanimated so quickly. He just popped up so fast, because it had been slow cooking his brain for awhile.

 

Shane shaved his head to avoid any questions about the missing plug. At that moment nobody knew he sacraficed Otis. And about the quick reanimation. We don't know how long Rick stayed at Shanes body, he cried a lot so maybe he staid there for an hour or two. And don't forget Milton, Milton also reanimated really quick. It's like you reanimate faster if you're not died from a walker fever.

 

The walker fever just kills you slowly. We don't have any examples of how fast you reanimate after death. With Amy, a walker fever didn't kill her, it was that massive chunk out of her neck, and she died several hours later. For other folks we've seen turn, the fastest was Shane. I'm pretty sure the way the scene was set up, it was not a couple hours later. It was pretty much right after. With Milton, it was a longer amount of time, but shorter than Amy, conceivably. So basically, we have no way of knowing what affects the time before reanimation, it's probably just dependent on the person, their hormones, physical condition, fitness, etc. Certainly nothing shows that you reanimate quicker from a non-fever death.

 

True, I forgot about Amy, she died pretty quick because of the bleeding. You're right.

 

It's actually very interesting, the only person we've ever seen die from the fever is Jim (in the show, that is). There aren't very many instances in the comics either, though. So there's not too much to go on, there.

 

Yeah, we only 'hear' about people who died from the fever and turned like Morgans wife and Hershels family.
And we didn't actually saw that Jim died from the fever, they left him in the woods.
Wonder why we have never seen it.

 

We didn't see it but Morgan said his wife died from the fever.

 

I thought Hershel said his wife and stepson died from the fever too, I could be wrong though

 

He might have during a conversation with Rick. I know he talked about them dying anyway.