Speculation: How long would it have taken....

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I think we can conclude a couple of things from what was mentioned on the show.

First of all: When Pegs crashlanded the banane near the farm, we also learned that even in remote areas like these zeehs lurk in the dark.
Then: Considering the location of Fort Irwin and the small towns surrounding it, it might be anything else but a stretch if you compare such small towns with any other rural area.
Finally: Kimmet givet us an insight about how quickly the zeehs spread over all of the USA. I would imagine that almost any police -, security - or military service was in radio-contact with any other next higher instance - for the sake of coordination, asking for support, asking for food, water, medics, and ammo etc. Therefore it should be able to draw a detailed map about when what exact location fell under the constant attacks of them zeehs.

Yes. We have no information if there might be other areas on the territory of the US which might be safe from what happened everywhere else. But with all the various means of communication and of mobility (cars, busses, trains, helicopers, planes) such a place must have been absolutely remote and cut off from the world in order to have avoided what has come to pass in so many other areas ... Maybe remote areas might have withheld the threat a little longer - but not much.

All these things do not account for slow turners ...

All the best!
Liam

Good points. Let's leave the slow turner thing alone for the moment....

I need to do a quick look at the map and see where the crash landing was and where Fort Irwin is and see how they are situated relative to population centers. I get the feeling that they are very near major traffic areas and not that far from population centers (at least the farm landing spot).

Watching major disasters here in the US unfold over the past few decades, I've seen some very good coordination and some very bad coordination between agencies, localities, military, etc. So I don't know that we would have a really clear picture outside of the major population areas. That is, small town USA would probably lose contact with nearest large area as the big place fell. Then the little place may not have good comms with anybody else to get help from. And the big places probably wouldn't send much out officially as they would have a lot to deal with.

So, I think that many small towns would be well away from the zeehs at the outbreak assuming that whatever caused all this didn't erupt nearby (fault lines, contaminated water, solar flares, etc). There are some pretty remote places here in the US where it takes many hours of driving to get to from major cities. Again, dropping the slow turner part for the moment, it sounds like "infected" people wouldn't probably make it out there. At least not for a long time....

But then, introduce smart ones and the equation changes, perhaps. Depending on whether they remember things from their pre-zeeh life or not, some of them might decide to head out to some of these places.

In the end, I'm just going to assume that there are some bastions of humanity in different places in the world at the end of Season 3. If that ends up mattering to the show, Kc will clue us in with the Season 4 episodes. If not, we can still ponder it....