The Source/Cause of the Infection!

[Eviebae]

I'd like to add to this if I may. I agree 100% that this is a virus. And history is full of "illegal" human testing right down to Dr Jonas Salk who documented work of testing ways to infect people with the flu. He was using a "nasal spray" form of the flu virus and testing how lethal its effect was on mentally ill and handicapped women. You all do know we can deliver a flu vaccine via a nasal spray right? Guess where it came from?

Kek's idea is quite sound.

I could have gone my whole life without knowing about the nasal spray thing...

Gene therapy uses viruses to rewrite the DNA of patients, right? Viruses hijack human cells and cause them to reproduce the virus instead of regular cells. I've read that humans have "junk DNA" that scientists say came from viruses in the past leaving their mark. It's just hard for me to think it could all have been done by one person. It had to be a group of some sort.

BTW, I think Ink was already infected when he was arrested.

[yarri]

I could have gone my whole life without knowing about the nasal spray thing...

Gene therapy uses viruses to rewrite the DNA of patients, right? Viruses hijack human cells and cause them to reproduce the virus instead of regular cells. I've read that humans have "junk DNA" that scientists say came from viruses in the past leaving their mark. It's just hard for me to think it could all have been done by one person. It had to be a group of some sort.

BTW, I think Ink was already infected when he was arrested.

Yes it does and the zombies were misnamed from the beginning as I can't remember what chapter it was in. These "zombies" of Kc's breathe, sleep, bleed and are warm and heal. Dead things don't do any of that. It is a logical conclusion to assume that your theory could have some weight. My current tinfoil hat theory is that its an eco terrorist group out to reduce mankind to its animal state and free mother earth from the shackles of human oppression.

[kek]

Yes it does and the zombies were misnamed from the beginning as I can't remember what chapter it was in. These "zombies" of Kc's breathe, sleep, bleed and are warm and heal. Dead things don't do any of that. It is a logical conclusion to assume that your theory could have some weight. My current tinfoil hat theory is that its an eco terrorist group out to reduce mankind to its animal state and free mother earth from the shackles of human oppression.

I agree that these aren't the typical 'zombies' in the sense that they are not rotting corpses wandering around eating people. Otherwise they would be rotten and decomposing by now. It has been too long for a form of dead body to still be up and 'functioning' Although if I remember correctly Michael and Pegs did see ones that appeared to be starving or rotting or something while on the yacht in chapter 16....

[Eviebae]

My current tinfoil hat theory is that its an eco terrorist group out to reduce mankind to its animal state and free mother earth from the shackles of human oppression.

I absolutely agree with the first part. I am undecided about the second. What ever the cause, it was created for a purpose.

Could be the "new humans" were created to:

• Be more "perfect" however you define it..
• Because the creators wanted to be the one's in the pinstripe suits of life (One suit to rule them all...)
• A self limiting extinction device.

If they just wanted to get rid of us, it seems like over kill (so to speak) to go to the bother of creating such intricate mutations.

[Osiris]

I dislike the idea of 'genetic testing by humans', but fall in favour of 'genetic experiments by a madman'.

[Osiris]

P.S. No nasal spray was used in the development of zombies.

#FACT

[yarri]

P.S. No nasal spray was used in the development of zombies.

#FACT

No one said it was. It was used as an example of mankinds abuse of man for the sake of improvement. History is full of such things.

[yarri]

I absolutely agree with the first part. I am undecided about the second. What ever the cause, it was created for a purpose.

Could be the "new humans" were created to:

• Be more "perfect" however you define it..
• Because the creators wanted to be the one's in the pinstripe suits of life (One suit to rule them all...)
• A self limiting extinction device.

If they just wanted to get rid of us, it seems like over kill (so to speak) to go to the bother of creating such intricate mutations.

That's why it's a tinfoil hat theory. Then again I've yet to meet a zealot of any type that was smart. I guess that can apply to tree hugging hippies.

[reaper239]

That's why it's a tinfoil hat theory. Then again I've yet to meet a zealot of any type that was smart. I guess that can apply to tree hugging hippies.

i disagree, zealots are some of the most motivated individuals in the world, and therefore strive to attain their goals harder than anyone else. this causes them to look at problems in different ways, and to be more creative. or be more stupid, it depends on the zealot.

[yarri]

i disagree, zealots are some of the most motivated individuals in the world, and therefore strive to attain their goals harder than anyone else. this causes them to look at problems in different ways, and to be more creative. or be more stupid, it depends on the zealot.

Name me a few friend.