Chapter 46-3 Under Pressure

[Grognaurd]

Guys, I just thought of something.

What if Saul and Tanya's resistance to the Z-bug isn't genetic? This has probably already been discussed but just hear me out a second. We have Tanya - a vet - who has likely been exposed to all manner of drugs throughout her career. In addition, she probably needed a fair number of vaccinations in the regular course of her job. Saul was given high doses of some rather hard-core antibiotics.

If we expand this further, some other people we've seen who have been slow turners may also have been exposed to vaccinations and/or antibiotics in large quantities. Datu likely would've had additional vaccinations when he came to America as part of standard procedures. Kalani was a pilot and likely had to have vaccinations as part of his job requirements.

The point I'm getting at is we've seen unusual behavior from zombies in regards to these people. The zombies carried off Datu and attempted to carry off Tanya to the arena. Kalani was at the arena but passed over in favor of Samantha for the "play time" in the middle. Saul exhibits the markers for zombie-ism, as did Datu prior to turning.

Tanya had the markers and didn't even turn!

Is there the possibility that there is a relatively straight forward cure to all of this and it's just high levels of antibiotics or vaccinations of some sort? Perhaps this causes them to smell differently so that they’re distinctive to the zombies. I'd be interested to find out if the other slow turners had any special medication history as well.

Great thinking Janet. I recently considered something similar. Tanya was a vet and Saul worked with her enough when he was Young. Maybe they caught something from the animals that gave them some resistance. I mentioned Toxoplasmosis, some real life scientists have speculated that when some women are infected exhibit a behavior known as the crazy cat lady. Seems like every town has some lady with a huge number of cats. Grog, what does that have to do with anything? Ah, my padawans, fold you like this...

How many cats does CJ have at Dunbar? For a couple of months she lived alone with a bunch of cats. Sean, said you ( meaning CJ ) might have another breakdown. Putting it all together, crazy cat lady. So, maybe she was already eexposed and Ink can sense this and says "leave her". Going further, when mice become infected, they tend to lose their fear of cats. Chapter25 has the return of a very fat Mr. Whiskers. I have not seen fat feral cats, so Mr Whiskers must have a pretty easy go of it even though he has to fend for himself. One way to explain this is mice ( and possibly other animals ) losing their fear of cats making them easy to catch.