I just wanted to take a moment to give credit to Brenda for the way she handled herself during the battle. She was right up there with everyone else fighting the zombies off. She seems to have an aversion to guns, but she is perfectly happy to beat the zombies off with a bat or something else.
In this case she had a sledge hammer. Brenda walked along the upper landing and kept the zombies from climbing over the wall. As soon as one of them popped its head up, Brenda was there with her hammer like a sick game of wack-a-mole.
In between she would tend to the injured as best she could. And after the battle she stuck around long enough to adress any other wounded that she had not yet gotten to. Though this was not as many as you would think because it didn't include anyone who had been bitten.
The Savannah Coalition had a strict policy regarding the infected. I think I mentioned before that they had lost 25 soldiers to the enemy. Well that is not entirely true. A good portion of those casualties had been people who had simply been bitten. Once things had settled the infected marched themselves down to the riverwalk and lined up against a stone wall. No one told them to, no one forced them to. It was just understood.
Once the infected had all lined up a group of officers with rifles came out and shot them. Quick and simple, execution style. No words were exchanged and no one asked questions. The bodies were then laid out on a barge and taken out to sea.
The family and friends of the infected were told that they perished in battle, and that was that.
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I like this element of the story. In Max Brooks' World War Z, one of the quickest ways the infection spread was when the infected were in denial. These guys were brave and unselfish enough to know that it was over for them. With more attitudes like these, the infection can be overcome.
I disagree King. I think that the carriers are the key to survival. If one of those guys on the wall turned out to be a carrier, they would've had a valuable asset; someone to be studied whose blood could potentially be the source of a cure. I say keep them in an isolation pen (one of the main squares within the city) and see if any of them DON'T turn. If someone doesn't, have them live in quarantine until someone with the proper medical credentials arrives.
You can't kill them all, and those men could've continued fighting if the city gets hit tomorrow, so that's 25 guys who could've helped. I feel like the only two answers are to work on a cure or to live in absolute isolation, and living in the city with their mentality will eventually lead to their downfall.
Good points, Librarian, but you assume the Savannah Coalition knows about the possibility of carriers. A carrier is pretty rare and most people don't know about them. Plus there are soo many rumors flying around, even those who have heard about them, probably don't believe it.
They are definitely missing out on additional help if another zombie attack occurs, though. Unfortunately, not everything is rational in this world and there are a lot of emotions tied up with watching a loved one turn and letting them go before that happens.
I guess they figured they were preventing a lot of heartache and possible accidents, but not thinking about the additional help they could provide before turning. Weather they made the right decision... we may never know.
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