What is your opinion on how all of this got started?
Its a new evolutionary step. Nature sees that humans are running out of food, so the evolutionary imperative is to adapt to find an abundant supply of food. Humans.
Not all evolutions are positive. Survival of the fittest does not refer to how we feel about our place in the world, but on our ability to survive.
I always followed what's probably the standard Fluff on this It's a Plague.
Probably started in the Toxic Chemicals dumps in N.Jersey (that my story &
I'm sticking to it)
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I voted - Experiments with Ancor Chemicals at Widowcrest Asylum.
To me it just seemed a logical and intuitive fit to the introductory Die Zombies Die scenario, when looking at it from the story or B-grade movie perspective... just how the horde simply "appears" one night in Woodinvale.
Well, it works for me anyway
I was leaning towards the experiments, but ultimately voted for "something else." Mainly because I tend to prefer the idea of the zombie outbreak being as result of some kind of zombie virus. In other words, it is some kind of weird illness that just starts happening. I'm not even really sure why, but I just like that better than other idea like the idea of a bunch of scientists trying to cure this or that and it goes horribly bad.
I guess maybe part of that being because then that would be easy to eventually contain. Just manage to kill off the zombies and then.... just don't do that again. LOL! Whereas an illness... there's only so much you can do about that. You can hope to cure or prevent it in the future, but nature being what it is, people are going to get sick now and then.