I think you've hit it square. These shows make you think! Figure that more than 98%--maybe even 99.9%--of the population is dead or walking at one year post-outbreak. Of a starting U.S. population of ~300M, 0.1% means that there are 300,000 'normals' left. (Boost it to 3,000,000 at 1% if you like). If the normals got together with really good organization they could commandeer a few major distribution centers for all those non-perishables that nobody else has an appetite for! An organized and fortified group could also plant & harvest crops--with all that fuel that nobody else is using. Find an armory! Go to LeJeune, or Bragg, or Parris Is. All those dead soldiers have weapons, ammo, etc. Kinda like the early days of the colonization of the U.S.--without the British, the indians or the absence of infrastructure, energy & the like.
I think it has been picked up for a fourth season. There is still ample source material to draw from. They are on about issue 21 of 107, and in 2 weeks 108 of the comic.
Cool, so there's a better than average chance, considering the ratings are through the roof. I think this story arc is going to pick up in the next few weeks, but I hope next season they get back to trying to survive against zombies. So far, Woodbury hasn't been my favorite arc. I think its better in the comics.
Fighting other, malicious, humans may be realistic (that people suck); but it was not what I originally tuned in to see. Seeing Rick stuck in a National Guard tank on a zombie-filled Atlanta street--having to be rescued by Glenn--now that was some TV!
How has no one gotten zombie juice in a wound? I dig the whole walker bomb too, that was interesting.
I don't think that would really be that bad. Everyone is already carrying the infection. There is something about the bites in particular that causes a rapid infection and death.
No. There are probably very few left with the knowledge, and nobody left with the equipment to develop a cure. I think it ends with a small human population that lives with the menace until the zombies eventually rot away, and develops a process to keep the recently deceased from turning. I think in the end civilization looks a lot more like in did in the year 1000 than it did in the year 2000.
