Humans Would Defeat Zombies in a Global Pandemic

I'll start out by establishing the powers a zombie has. (source: . http://zombies.monstrous.com...)Zombies never sleep, and they are incapable of fatigue. Fatigue in the muscles is caused by a lactic acid build up. Zombies are incapable of producing this acid. Since they are incapable of producing lactic acid in the muscle tissue they feel no symptoms of fatigue. Zombies are impervious to pain and require no air to breathe. The small portion of the brain which the parasite needs requires such a small amount of oxygen that simply by being in an environment where oxygen is present will suffice. This means, obviously, that a zombie can survive on land; however, this also means that a zombie can survive under water as water is one part oxygen. They are thus immune to drugs, poisons, gases, extremes of temperature and pressure, high voltage electricity, suffocation, and drowning. While not invulnerable to physical injury, zombies can suffer great damage to their bodies (including dismemberment) without being adversely affected. Dismembering the legs will render the zombie immobile, but the creature will still continue to subsist. Likewise, decapitation will incapacitate the body, but the head will still "live". Zombies don’t possess any superhuman strength, nor do they have a night vision, characteristic usually common to undead monsters. Zombies have no concept of fear. You cannot scare a zombie. The small amount of brain that they have does not process fear. A zombie will see you and feel the need to kill you without being intimidated by the number or the weapons-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I'll point out the flaws in my opponent's scenario. How a Zombie Outbreak Cannot ExpandMy opponent is basing this scenario on the assumption that only ONE person in ONE major city in only ONE country would start a zombie apocalypse. I looked up ways a person can become a zombie and was surprised when I came across this website that had an analysis of 5 scientific reasons a zombie apocalypse could really happen (. http://www.cracked.com...) There's one that stood out above the rest. It has to do with brain parasites, or "toxoplasmosa gondii". You can read the details at the site, but basically it makes people really aggressive and insane. This is the kicker though - HALF OF THE HUMAN POPULATION ON EARTH IS INFECTED WITH TOXOPLASMOSA. So if something happened and changed the status of this dormant toxoplasmosa gondii and made it active, 1 out of every 2 humans would instantly become a zombie. This causes a major problem with my opponent's scenario. The military in the US would be reduced to half its size, along with every single military around the world (because half of the human population on Earth becomes a zombie). And because the zombies would be spread over MANY cities, this already nearly impossible task of containing the zombies becomes simply impossible. Even if the military did contain zombies in a few cities, they would attack the barriers relentlessly. Fresh military humans = zombie lunch. And because zombies never get tired, can't feel fear, and can suffer extreme pain without stopping, they would most likely succeed in defeating the military. People Know How to Kill ZombiesMy opponent just says that everybody knows to kill zombies by shooting them in the head. But how many people could actually take a gun and shoot a zombie accurately in the head when the big, scary, smelly zombie is coming at you ready to bite your head off? The fear factor has to be taken into account here. People might say "yeah I would kill 100 zombies every day if a zombie apocalypse happens cuz I play Call of Duty", but if you took an actual real-life zombie and let it attack that person, I bet every single time that person would run away screaming like a girl. Then my opponent says "Furthermore, people know how to avoid zombies to. " . .. .. Really? How? Science May be Able to Make a Vaccination"Now despite many movies depicted scientists as failing to find a vaccine who is not to day they very well could? "Well, who's to say they very well couldn't? It's a lot less probable to find a vaccine then fail at finding a vaccine. Weather and Terrain Would Assist in Stopping ZombiesIf you look at the powers of a zombie, they can deal with extreme amounts of damage to their bodies without being affected. This disproves the weather point. In the middle of a blizzard, a normal human might think it's absolutely freezing, where a zombie would be thinking "food food food food food food food food". They don't care about the weather. My opponent has a valid point in the terrain argument. Since a zombie brain is the size of a walnut, they do find problems with doors and walls. But if you look to the zombie powers again, they don't sleep. So zombies would have a TON of time to figure out another way around. Underground BunkersOK so let's say the world becomes completely infested with zombies EXCEPT for the very small amount that escapes into underground bunkers. My opponent says that everyone will conveniently have "food to last them several lifetimes". This is unrealistic. I mean, the supplies are going to run out eventually. That means a team would have to be sent to get more food. This team would then have to face the huge amount of zombies running around. The chances for success are slim to none. If the team fails, more people would have to be sent, or everyone starves. Even if they succeed at finding supplies and returning safely, the supplies will once again run out, and eventually, there will be no other supplies to find above ground. If the Zombie Apocalypse is Unstoppable the Governments will Drop the Big OnesYes, dropping nukes would surely eliminate a lot of zombies. But it would also eliminate any surviving humans above ground. And the nukes wouldn't kill every single zombie. So the zombies that survive would be exposed to radiation, and after a while, become immune to it. The radiation would also most likely mutate the zombies. So instead of just regular zombies, now there's radioactive mutated zombies. That's just swell. Nukes would not provide a solution. I have found all of the flaws and explained why zombies would actually win in a global pandemic.