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Anyone else remember that guy from years ago that wanted us to put Trindon Holliday at D End because he was fast?

#NeverForget

Last week right after Syd and David switched bodies, when David (who was really Syd at the time) was screaming "No!" and Lenny was trying to calm everyone down she said "he's in the yellow" to the orderlies.

That really stuck out to me at the time and I started to notice a lot of color imagery in the show, yellow, red, maybe blue and green as well. All the red flashes, red light on that dog cage, Syd's clothes start out blue but she later only wears red or. black with red accents, etc.

The color thing that I thought was the most "in your face" were those brown leather jumpsuits; David's was always brown with a yellow stripe and yellow pocket accents, but Lenny's was red, not yellow. Other random patients had either yellow or red (Syd never wore one).

Like I said, that stuck out to me last week and I've been wondering about it.

Then, this week after they got high off of the (always blue) vapor from the frog, Lenny kept repeating "yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather" just before David saw the yellow eyed devil.

Definitely something up with color.

ETA: oh, and Syd's montage song was about rainbows

Hell, he probably could have just run around "Bo Jackson, Techmo Bowl" style back there and killed the 15 seconds.

This shite is going to get me in trouble at work because I can't stop laughing at it. It's fricking hilarious.

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CocomoLSU

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Consensus is that it's great.

You should watch the show, especially if you liked Breaking Bad.

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My understanding was the girl on the bread truck was collateral damage. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time

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I took it thew other way, she was there in support of the guy that they captured.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I took it.

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If we're agreeing that the dead are walking the earth then we need to agree that all consistent application or understanding of biological sciences goes out the fricking window

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This.

But there are certainly applications of biological sciences that can explain away the seeming inconsistencies noted above.

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Barb wire cut. No die, no turn.

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But also,
Barb wire cut leading to septicemia = die then turn
Heart attack = die then turn

I think we're on the same page with that; I just want to make sure.

Now to your next point

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What is it about the bite if they are all infected? Nothing, and that's my point.

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Well, not necessarily. Sure, no one understands how this infection works in the make believe world of The Walking Dead, but it's not unheard of for the same pathogen to cause very different clinical signs depending on the route of exposure. Maybe a "latent" infection (the kind that everyone has) is subclinical and only manifests after the infected person dies.

But a bite manifests in an acute illness because a virulent subform of the virus is shed through the salivary glands once the infected person is in the advanced stages of disease (i.e. a zombie). Viruses can be spread like that, see rabies for example which travels from the CNS to the salivary glands so that it can be spread.

But back to the different forms of the disease based on routes of exposure: just off the top of my head, think of Anthrax. Inhalational anthrax is pretty fricking bad, you're very likely to die just because you breathed it in. However, if you get the same bacteria on a cut on your hand, you'll probably just get a big ugly ulcer (look up Woolsorter's disease).

The only difference there = the route of infection. Outcomes vastly different.

What I'm saying is this: there are certainly precedents in nature of pathogens impacting you differently based on your route of exposure. I don't think that it's too much a stretch on the imagination to believe that this "Walker Virus" is similar to that.

Breath in anthrax = die
Get anthrax on a cut on your hand = no real big deal

Get exposed to "Walker virus" through a bite from a walker (even if you're already subclinically infected) = die
Get "Walker virus" through it's normal mode of transmission (whatever the frick that is) = no real big deal

At least that's how I look at it (I've actually thought about this before).

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You don't turn because you were bit, you turn because you are dead.

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Meh, you die from the smallest of bites, then turn.

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Actually he's right and I think you're missing his point (if I'm mistaken I apologize).

Yes, if you get bitten you die, but if you die you'll turn, even if you were never bitten. As an example, remember the guy who died from that flu in the prison. He was never bitten, got sick, died, turned and then bit others.

Getting back to the original question I think that the poster was suggesting that the initial outbreak could have started that way. Someone (or perhaps lots of people) became infected through whatever means people become infected, call that the "latent" illness. Then when (S)he died (however they died, and the how is unimportant) it because the "virulent" zombie version of the illness and that person spread it further through zombie violence.