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The population of Georgia is what, 10 million? So let's say the plague affects 95% of the population (vastly more than any pandemic ever). That still leaves 500,000 people, most of whom will hit upon the idea of heading toward Atlanta or seeking out others at some point and might possibly cross the protagonist's path. In the six years of the series he's stumbled across a couple of hundred?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Well, the guy that shot Denise was the dude that Darryl found in the forest with those two chicks. How he managed to hook up with a bunch of other guys and apparently end up "in charge" of that group is a wonder, because the guy is a retard, and not the leader type.
I'm still not onboard with the whole zombie idea anyway. How long has this zombie apocalypse been going on? Certainly more than a year.
Why haven't they addressed the effect of winter weather on zombies? Do they freeze in place? If so, wouldn't it be easier to kill them off? They're not having babies, so killing them while they're zombiecicles would be a great way to thin the herd, so to speak.
And then, wouldn't the smart play be to go far enough north to make their dicks pull back up into their bodies to at least have some relief from the zombie hordes?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The twist in The Walking Soap Opera is that "everyone is infected" so that when someone dies they automatically become a nice fresh zombie!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, I know that. What's that got to do with my winter question?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nothing to do with winter freezing them - which sounds a plausible idea, but a reaction to your phrase about thinning the herd.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Your point about winter is certainly valid, but do we even know how much time has passed in the series? I'm only up to season 5 myself, but I don't remember any specific comments about how long it's been.
I'm sure someone diligent could figure it out, but are there any specific quotes that give any indication that it hasn't been less than a year?
On another point, my wife did post-grad at Georgia Tech (in Atlanta, Georgia!) and I remember her talking about one of her friends there that was born and raised in Atlanta. Story went that one winter it finally got cold enough to snow. It was the first time that the man had seen snow, and he was 23...
So, really, even if it has been over a year, it's not much of a stretch to claim that it never got cold enough to make 'zombicicles'.
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Well, look how much Carl has aged since the first season...
Gotta be a few years at least...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Good point.
Such is the problem with children in TV shows. You're pretty much bound to have the narrative progress at a reasonable pace, or to replace the actor/actress. Assuming the narrative has progressed as much as Carl has grown, then you're absolutely correct about it being at least a couple of years. I was looking for dialog or the like that didn't require that assumption though.
Some quick googling out of curiosity took me to the walking dead wikia, which indicates that the episode 'Twice as Far' (S6E14) takes place 627 days after outbreak. So, just short of two years. I'd say Carl has aged more than two years (six in real life, obviously,) but that still only puts the characters through a maximum of two winters. Given that, plus my previous comment about snow in Atlanta, I'm not surprised at all that we haven't seen 'winter' in The Walking Dead.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Why haven't they addressed the effect of winter weather on zombies?
What winter weather? The last time that the temperature dipped below 0C in the Atlanta area was 1985.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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We don't measure in C here...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The last time that the temperature in the Atlanta area dropped below the freezing point of water at sea level at normal atmospheric pressure was 1985.
That better?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's tripe -- not just tripe, but slow, dreary tripe. I gave up watching it a few seasons ago, because I get enough sleep.
What gets me is that they've obviously never heard of bicycles, in stoopid-writer land.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damnit!
xkcd: Estimating Time[^]
Randall knows my estimation method! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Because I still can't:
This site can’t be reached
www.dilbert.com took too long to respond But isup.me says there's no problem?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's working for me now. It was not earlier.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No issue from there, either.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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I can type the words in the comic for you if you'd like 
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No longer necessary, it's working...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Still down for me too. Maybe Osborne has decided to block Dilbert as a measure to increase productivity in the UK.
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Just started working for me...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nope.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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Do you want a link to the comic of today?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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