Quote Originally Posted by Witch_Doctor View Post
I wonder what is involved in the 'turning' process. Specifically the outward appearances as viewed by others. Right now I can think of only a handful of instances where we witness someone turning in real-time.
  1. Tommy
  2. Fernando
  3. The three Blackhawk soldiers.
  4. * Riley gives an account of people turning in Chapter 1 part 2. NOTE: Not everyone turned at the same rate.
  5. * Some of the members of the Mallers' arena convoy turn while they're under attack, but we don't see this happen.
Maybe add "Roman" in brackets; Glenn reported Roman being attacked by a little one and recognized him later as having become a little one.

Quote Originally Posted by Witch_Doctor View Post
Does anyone remember an instance or description of someone turning via bite before Fernando? How did Tommy's sister, Sally? Susie? Turn?

We know you can turn from bites, blood exchange, and something from ground zero. What about the 'slow turner?' We don't know if this person was exposed at one point and turned like the others weeks later or was gradually turning throughout the duration. If the latter, then could this person have described the process from a Z's perspective or would this person go through changes like mood swings and not be aware of it. Also, from Riley's account, not everyone sprayed with Z-blood turned right away. Perhaps, not only do different Zs spread the infection through different means but different people catch it in different ways.

What if the Ground Zero vector is airborne? How about the Blackhawk Inkling? Pvt Thomas, Michael, Tanya, Riley and possibly Puck all got a good whiff of Z-Funk when they opened the body bag. This brings me to the odd pissing match between Michael and Carl. Mike's been calmer lately but his combativeness is not out of the ordinary. Carl was the most aggressive as he had shown his aggressiveness to a superior. Riley is on anger-management pills. Tanya may have some sort of immunity. Puck's from NYC so anything he says will seem angry. Pus Carl has had the most exposure.

If there is a problem in Boulder it could have come from the Blackhawk and not Griggs.

Interesting.
May have slipped my might: Do we really have a witnessing of human => gets bitten => turns? As I understood it it is just an assumption of most of us that biting leads to infection. From CJ we only know the estimate that something strange might have changed one of her The Other Town dudes; but she was not crystall clear on what exactly happened to him, so it could have been a spar between him and some kind of zombie at ground zero OR the odd anti-biosphere at that location OR both ...
Your differentiation actually supports an early attempt of an explanation that turning depends on the bloodtype; recently there was a mentioning of different kinds of zed-agents leading to zed-mutation.

Besides this I would like to stress the hint that - considering the weak teeth of #2 - Little Ones seem to infect their victims different from what Regulars do. Glenn only spoke of an attack on Roman, and the two the red-shirts at the Chinook Side were just attacked and we don't have a description about how the Little One infected them; basically this is why I thought, Cpt. Long would change within the Chinook, which did not occur.

All the best!
Liam