I know realism and the Walking Dead don't really go hand in hand, but I was thinking about a part in the book World War Z that describes the clean-up that's attempted where the Humans have basically turned the tide and start the path of clearing every single zombie that's left. It's been awhile but I remember parts where they talk about basically a giant line from Canada to Mexico moving east or west clearing anything in their path. And then there were parts that discuss all the zombies that are on lake and ocean floor that have to be removed as well.
In all versions of the Walking Dead (Comics, Shows, Games) no matter how many years go by it's always shown that the total number of walkers doesn't really ever seem to dwindle. How many walkers does each character kill over the course of the series? Hard to say for sure as we only see what we see. There could easily be tons of off-screen/off-panel kills but I'd say it's safe to say for most of the major characters they've killed several hundred each. I was wondering if anyone has done any sort of rough analysis to determine how long it might take to achieve something like World War Z.
There's roughly 300 million people in the US around the time the comics begin (vague, but somewhere between 2000 - 2010). Let's be super conservative and say only 1% of the population survives the initial outbreak for the first year. That's 3 million individuals across the US. Now that leaves 297 million walkers for those 3 million survivors to clear out. Simple math would say if each of the 3 million survivors kills 100 walkers each and doesn't die themselves then all would be gone. But that's spread out across the entire US and there's a lot of empty land with most major population centers having the higher density. As we've seen in all forms of the franchise some survivors are more useful and capable of killing walkers than others. Some live sheltered lives and were lucky like Alexandria Safe Zone. Others had a hard time right from the beginning and had to adapt to survive or die.
More specifically the DC Metro area where Alexandria is located is around 6 million population. If we apply that same 1% figure then we have 60,000 survivors which seems pretty high based on how many characters we see so may be 1% is still too liberal.>! However, what is interesting is this is a pretty close number to what the Commonwealth has claimed with 50,000 survivors across all the communities. !<I'm not sure if we ever saw a number for Wellington or Richmond but neither seemed that large. Ohio's population is close to 11 million so 50,000 people would need to kill around 200 walkers on average to clear them out.
It's been years since the outbreak began and these communities now have essentially trained armies/militia protecting others who are not as capable in fighting. I think I've seen numbers around 4 years having passed in the comics but longer on the show. I'll go with the lowest number. Let's say we ignore the first year of chaos and assume they've only killed walkers for 3 years. With 3 years and ~200 kills per person you'd only need to kill 1 walker every 5 days and there would none left. Group/Herd walkers are more dangerous to humans but single walkers are relatively easy.
Would we ever see the end of the walker threat completely? Would the medium basically end at that time? Imagine going months/years without even seeing a walker. Would they become a myth to those who grew up post apocalypse outside of those who die from natural causes? Would it be like Game of Thrones and the White Walker threat being a story we tell children to scare them?
Submitted February 27, 2019 at 12:47PM by senior_chupon https://ift.tt/2VquD2Q
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