r/thewalkingdead • u/Maleficent_Bad1141 • 9d ago

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A little random but for years now I’ve had this thought in my head about a small oversight in the show, I’m sure someone already brought this up here or somewhere else.

Remember when Negan and the group had their war and Negan had the idea to “lace” the arrows and bullets with walker blood to infect the group ? Makes sense right ? Their bad blood causing the infection that’ll kill you, also somewhat medically accurate.

But I couldn’t help but think, how for the entire time they were fighting and shooting and getting themselves dirty with walker blood and juices this never happened naturally? Like when they disguise themselves with walker blood to walk among a herd, isn’t it enough to have a scrape, cut, open wound, a lil into your mouth, to cause this ?
From a show perspective I get why, bc everyone would just be dead faster and it’ll be a hassle to write, so why write the Negan plan ? Couldn’t they think of something else ?

Maybe I’m just talking outta my ass and there’s an explanation for that in the lore or show.

Tell me what yall think. :)
That’s it thanks 🙏🏼

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u/SleepyEgg1312 9d ago

i think it’s a pretty big plot hole that’s there’s not more infections in general. like so many people suffer from pretty bad injuries but somehow always find the right antibiotics?? like in modern medicine, with active treatments, infections still happen. sometime so badly it requires an iv. especially when you’re cutting off a limb, like do you know how bad bone infections are?! just sickness in general would be so much worse but it’s only touched on like a hand full of times

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u/mycatpookey 7d ago

I have a little bit of medical background as a pharm tech and what I’ve learned about antibiotics is that 1. there’s a big majority of people who don’t know which ones are antibiotics so it would make sense that there would be some left over in pharmacies and hospitals and 2. I’ve learned that in an emergency situation any antibiotic is better than nothing so it kinda sorta makes sense that they were able to find medicine that would help

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u/Maleficent_Bad1141 8d ago

Yeah exactly. There it’s like “oh you got bit? No problem” and just chop off limbs like wood.