The cause of a zombie apocalypse

"Truthfully I can't figure out from your writings who is infected how, and when do they actually become zombies. Is it a two part process?" People are infected by two ways, if the amount of infected cells outnumber the amount of not-infected, or if they die by a previous cause. If someone is to get bit or breathe too much of the virus (because it travels through air) they would be infected. " Your zombies sound like retards, so anyone would be smart enough to trick them with a piece of dried fruit." For one thing, zombies are not supposed to be the most intelligent things, and if someone were to "trick them with a piece of dried fruit, they would be wasting food that they could have eaten themselves. Keep in mind, humans are not the only organisms that breath in O2. Any animals that produce food or the meat that is used for food is also infected. Not that there is a zombie cow, but people would not be able to eat the meat of the cow without a risk of eating infected meat. Plants provide O2 through photosynthesis, but to do this they need CO2 as a reactant. According to my previous argument, the virus can move through any O2 compounds so therefore it can infect the air that plants breathe. Plants would be inedible also, and human survivors would not have a dependable food source. After a while there will be barley any food source because the water will be poisened also (keep in mind H2O has oxygen in it.) "However, in known pandemics there have been people with natural immunities to the viruses. They contain the antibodies needed to fight the virus and pass the genetic mutation on to their children causing this form of Zombie creation to be limited to one generation." As I explained in my last argument, antibodies would be able to fight off the virus for so long. The body only contains enough antibodies and t-cells to fight it off for a little while. But as the virus spreads it outnumbers the antibodies and takes over the entire body. "At the onset there are more people who are not zombies then there are who are zombies. The zombies will be quickly over taken and destroyed." I think that my opponent is confused about what a pandemic is. When a virus or infection spreads to different parts of the world, it is classified as a pandemic. This particular virus can travel through oxygen. If people breathe anywhere near someone else, they have a great possibility that the "someone else" has the virus. Although they are not fully considered as a zombie yet, they are predisposed to the virus. The more people interact with others, the more of the virus they encounter. "Because your virus moves through oxygen, it has the ability to affect plants. This causes a distinct identifiable warning of infection long before the infection has a chance to spread. Isolated individuals would not be affected because the virus is exported by breath." If people are isolated, they would not be affected by the virus. The same with electricity, those who do not live near others would be better off. After a while of course, the zombies will need to find more food and will spread out. People who are isolated though, would not have many of the necessities. Over time, the plants that are infected will pass the O2 and CO2, and the area of infected plants would greatly increase. People who are away from civilizations will be better off for a while, but then the virus would spread throughout the world. "They contain the antibodies needed to fight the virus and pass the genetic mutation on to their children causing this form of Zombie creation to be limited to one generation." People with natural immunities to viruses could be better off. Those people are immune to some viruses, but not all. Viruses mutate at a much faster rate than humans, and eventually another form of the virus will be created and will infect those with natural immunities. "If one hundred percent of the population, were infected with your virus. There would be no sudden death rate. Initially the only the people who become zombies will be those who die of known causes." ... "The zombies will be quickly over taken and destroyed." Of course there would be no sudden death rate, but gradually over a span of only a few months or years, people will have too much of the virus to fight back. Zombies would not be "quickly [overtaken, not over taken] and destroyed." Their bodies would still be regenerating and if one generation of zombies were to be destroyed, their bodies would regenerate. They would not be able to be fully exterminated, so therefore there would be no way to make them go extinct. Zombies will steeply increase in population, and at times there will be too many for the humans to even have a resistance against. ------------------------------------------------------------ Now on to my opponents arguments "The beginning of a zombie apocalypse will be the result of losing electricity. At the time of the apocalypse, the majority of people will be dependent on electricity for heat, refrigeration, communication, financial base, transportation, manufacturing, food processing, water distribution, identification, and a number of other things for life and social order sustainment." Throughout his first argument, my opponent failed to consider how the people would actually become zombies. If the electricity went out, would people magically be zombies? Without that argument, my opponent cannot precede to make any other arguments. "When the zombies first take all of the food from the people with brains, the food will go into a storage area and be rationed in small amounts, but the zombies won't like it" What are zombies (according to your argument)? I assume, by this argument that zombies are people without brains, but my opponent did not explain how the person's brain would loose its presence. My opponent failed to explain how the loss of electricity would result in a zombie apocalypse, so therefore his cause and effect is unreasonable. That is an unfortunate mistake, and I hope he will post a rational argument next round.