The others have not been burned because the virus is clearly not contained. Carol was attempting to prevent its spread.
Hershel mentioned the symptoms are manageable with medication, so at this point they’re trying to isolate the infected and treat the symptomatic so they can survive the flu, containing via quarantine rather than sterilization. Rick’s burning of the pig sty was perhaps more symbolic of his abrogation of life as a farmer than a sterilization tactic, but it works on both levels.
I’m just surprised that Doctor S, of all people, doesn’t know enough to cover his damn mouth when he coughs.
To be fair, I’m using “flu” and “virus” as shorthand. Hershel’s only “diagnosis” was stating the illness was survivable if the symptoms were treated, so presumably the list Daryl was given is medications to do just that (though I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers have conflated the whole flu/virus/antibiotics thing).
I liked this episode. I am enjoying the Illness plot line. It is realistic given their circumstances and I am interested to see where it goes.
I loved the shot of the hoard of zombies going off into the distance. Very unnerving and reminds you just how much a force of nature these zombies can be.
It never even occurred to me that Carol wasn’t being truthful when she admitted to killing those people. I figured it was her when she freaked out and threw the water barrels. She felt guilty for lying to Tyreese when he went on about how much he trusted her.
Regrading Tyreese, I got the impression he was committing Suicide by Zombie at first. Between his girl friend and (possibly) his sister dying plus I think he regretted his outburst with Darryl and Rick. He changed his mind and it was almost too late but he survived.
Or the cough came on him so suddenly that, in his weakened state, he didn’t have time to get his hand over his mouth. The man looks to be about 10 minutes from becoming a zombie.
Plus this way we get to see what a carrying fellow Hershel is, as he wipes his face with the blood covered cloth.
He (or someone) mentioned antibiotics right up front, which gave me an early :rolleyes:. The second :rolleyes: was when they decided to take a 2-wheel drive hot rod into unknown country, instead of the perfectly serviceable Hyundai AWD that they have sitting there. The writers are pretty much telegraphing the punches at this point.
It could also mean there’s another group of survivors out there organized enough to run a radio station. Maybe even some remnant of the government. We don’t really know what’s happening outside the Southeast. Hell for all we know there’s a rump government on the West coast or Australia’s doing just fine and starting to send expeditions to North America. BTW are there any real world diseases that match the symptoms of what’s going around on the show (& could plausibly arise in the prison)?
Well, they will for Glenn. Of course, what could be a shocking twist is if Glenn gets the medicine, dies anyway, reanimates as a zombie but slowly regains his awareness as the lethal infection fades.
Of course, at this point that’d just be a ripoff of Warm Bodies.
Hell, for all we know, everything is totally normal if they get a few hundred miles or a thousand miles away or just off the continent. Of course, if that was the case, I’d think “they’d” be sending in air support to, at the very least, observe what’s happening. Unless they’ve decided that even doing that might infect that pilots and it’s best just to write off America as another Chernobyl.
Tuberculosis is what I’m going with, just because of them coughing up blood and how quickly it’s spreading. Looking at wiki, the rest of the symptoms for TB are just general “I’m sick” type symptoms. Fever, chills, sweating, fatigue etc. Plus, it’ll spread rapidly in a jail cell block with all that coughing.
I believe Carol killed those people. However, I also don’t think the little girl has anything to do with it. There is no established link between her and Carol. Carol has no motivation to save a psycho girl.
Plus, I hate the idea that some little girl can overpower even a sick adult. Next, she’ll be whispering for no reason like those crappy horror movies. :rolleyes:
I don’t think she did it either, but if a little girl came up to me when I was sick, she could probably stick a knife in my ear before I even thought about why she was visiting me.
Carol would have said anything to ease his suffering and make him die easily. She’s very much a ‘for the greater good’ type person. She even tried to train his two daughter in zombie killin’ with him like he was some random dead guy.
Question: if everybody is already infected, why does a bite from a walker make you turn? In the story, it seems you have to die first to be reanimated, but a simple bite wouldn’t be enough to kill you, unless the virus was substantially different than in living hosts. However, if it is substantially different, why would it turn you if you died from natural causes?
It’s like everyone has a low-level case of Virus X, and the human immune system can easily keep it at bay. Upon death (from any cause), Virus X multiples rapidly, permeates the tissue completely and takes control of various bodily functions like walking and moaning and eating, etc. A zombie is rife with Virus X, and a bite on a living person injects that person with such a massive dose of Virus X that death soon follows.
Why a bite specifically? Who knows? The Romero Rule is in effect.