You’ve got me stumped.
“End Of The World, Part II”?
I forgot to add a reference:
At the end of King Kong, the authorities had a variety of options how to deal with him, ranging from leaving him to come down when he’s hungry, to raining the whole dense neighborhood with aerial machine gun bullets. Denham must’ve forgotten all about the gas bombs he used to capture him in the first place.
Maybe a little song and dance, like in Young Frankenstein. Of course, that didn’t work out so well either.
Hell, the fact that zombies can walk at all is highly improbable.
Do you know how complicated it is for humans to even stand upright? Do you know how many tubes, fluids, muscles and delicate sensory organs are involved? There’s no way that a half-rotted/half-desiccated zombie has a functional vestibular system. No, those guys are slithering on the ground at best. There’s no way a non-magic zombie can walk.
A ‘Walking Dead’ style zombie pandemic could not really happen. At least, not if you removed the ‘everybody becomes a zombie upon death’ part. That’s probably why they added it. TWD zombies ate people if given a chance. Rick’s wife was completely consumed by zombies. Let’s say the classic ‘Romero’ style zombies that shamble and eat people. Early on in a zombie outbreak, people get bit, manage to get away, then turn into zombies. So it starts to spread. But as soon as survivors figure out how to kill zombies, while it’s not too widespread, it would be relatively simple to wipe out the zombies and stop the spread. But if they couldn’t stop it right away, and zombies did become more widespread, victims would get overwhelmed by hordes of zombies and would simply get eaten. So no more spread of zombies. There’s a self-limiting factor.
The World War Z zombies (in the movie at least; I read the book but don’t really remember it) made more sense, transmission-wise, since they only bit humans in order to spread the virus. They left their victims intact. And zombification was quick (like 11 seconds if I recall). So not much time to mercy-kill an infected victim.