So Many Slow Turners

[Eviebae]

Tanya is amazed at how slowly Datu is turning. That's at least the third character in our troop of heroes. I could definitely be wrong but I feel like we're being given clues. What are some things that could be causing this:

• The Zomboid had already turned someone already and had depleted it's turning...juice (snake venom theory)
• The longer it's been since the outbreak, the weaker it's effects (maybe see above)
• Datu was out in the rain and cold--the cold temp slowed the effects of the turning, or
• The rain was cleaning his wounds. Tanya said that she washed her wound really well. I thought pfffft! but what if it actually matters?
• Saul, Tanya, Datu and Tommy all lived semi-close to Ground Zero (especially Saul). You'd have to account for the fact that if Saul was exposed by the bullet that went through yet Tommy turned and Saul didn't.
• On the forum we discussed the fact that the bullet that went through Tommy would have been a very weak source due to heating and travel through the air; but maybe it gave the equivalent of a dead virus vaccine.
• I don't know where Tanya was living, but Saul's and Tommy's house was (in LA terms) kinda close to ground zero. Now, suppose there was some slow seepage from the cracks. Not enough to cause immunity at the outset; but time exposed plus a secondary exposure turning became slowed. Where did Jay live before the outbreak?
• Saul and Tanya were exposed to the blood of turned and turning people.

The thing is, the plague sometimes acts like a disease, and sometimes like mutagenic. It's spread through blood and saliva; but seems the result of the "haze."