start of TWD season

[soundguy]

the comic and the movie share SOME characters.. and very little else.

think about rabies.

if you get bit.. and are not treated.. you die.

a walker bites you int he hand and you immediately whack the arm off. no bad infection transmission.

I bet if a rabid raccoon bit you int he hand and you whacked the arm off you wouldn't get rabies either.. if you whacked it off as soon as it happened.

everyone already has the zombie virus, the primary infection.

the bite just seems to give you a bad secondary infection that kills you.

once dead, form anything, as we have seen. you turn.

the secondary infection could just be dirty motuh bacteria that give you sepsis and you die.. then.. as normal.. turn

cutting off the bite prevents the sepsis... etc..