I don't think half the world survived. I think its a much smaller amount.

 

Yeah when he said half.... well, that sounds pretty optimistic. And Jenner mentioned that scientists around the world were looking at this. Everyone was affected.

 

What is this infected half you speak of? What infection?

 

By the look of the general state of the nation, I would say less than 10 percent.

Having said that, there seems to have been wide spread looting, they are driving crappy cars and they're not carrying a small arsenal, so who's been collecting all the goodies?

 

When Rick said that he was speculating. there are no news crews telling them whats going on. half just seemed like a good guess from what he could tell. The whole point is to leave us with as much info as the characters have.

 

This wouldn't stop you from having whatever it is that causes you to turn after death.

 

Agreed. Rick doesn't know the actual statistics of the surviving world. He can only make a general statement on what he's seen through his ordeal. We're following the story in the groups POV. Not ours.

 

Yes, it struck me that it was way too high, at least by what we have seen. Very rarely do they ever run into anyone else. They have been driving around for months and we have never even seen them pass another running car on the road.

 

Don't forget he said the 'worlds' population. That's all the continents. He didn't specify whether America has fallen or not.

 

I'm sure some islands have not been affected... you know not every island is inhabited!


we have yet to see if deep water really protects you from walkers. they can't swim, but they don't need to breath.. I'm not sure if a dead body floats or sinks ... while i don't see any issues with them walking under water, fully submerged , I also don't see how they would keep their bearings / still have stimulus to continue moving forward ....

actually whose to say that someday while someone is swimming they don't get bite by a walker that's been stuck on the bottom for a while? eeeks

 

That might be how the second infection happens =P

 

It's a horror show... it's not gonna go 100% by real life logic.

 

Do you have any idea how many people die every day in every city all over the world?

 

According to the CIA public data : 56,597,034 per year , That's about a 155,000 a day.

in the US only : 2,487,415 year / or 6,815 daily deaths. But tyipcally you don't get burried the day you die, could take a few weeks. so there could easily be 68,000 dead people waiting to be burried. if each of them bites 1 person , now the zombies have doubled and no one is aware of it yet... so that could end up being 130K zombies very very shortly after re-animation ... (as in a few minutes) and the government hasn't been even notified.

chances are by the time the CDC or Defense department learns of it, that number is 10 fold and we are pretty screwed.
and worse if the DOD response is to put everyone down "exposed to zombies" they just created a bunch more ..

If you buy into dead person rising up, the rest of it isn't really hard to swollow.