Here’s the problem The Walking Dead’s writers had to deal with: The military could easily put down a zombie outbreak (absent some other contributors to societal breakdown, more on that below). Zombies are slow, dumb and don’t shoot back. Would you rather fight the Chinese army, which can change tactics and fire weapons, or slow moving morons who will never take cover and literally shuffle into the line of fire? (One solution to this problem was the creation of fast-zombies of the sort found in 28 Days Later). As a lover of zombie fiction, I kind of wish it weren’t so. But I’ve come to the conclusion that an army of zombies are no match for even a mid-sized city’s police department.
For instance, in the beginning everyone’s watching the news. But the only subject on the news is excessive force by police (the public doesn’t realize at first that zombies really do need to be peppered with bullets, even when they are in cuffs). I can see that being the story of the day, for like a day. But pretty soon, wouldn’t you expect the news cycle to change to the fact that the dead are rising from the grave (and the stretcher and the hospital gurney etc)? Moreover, wouldn’t you expect lots of people to turn on the news? There is remarkably little effort made by anyone to get informed about what’s going on. I get being in denial about the apocalypse, but corpses walking amongst us is still a pretty interesting news story. I know it’s implied, but if you’re going to try to score points by showing real human reactions to the unthinkable, you can’t leave out other even more obvious reactions to the unthinkable. If CNN got good ratings for a case of irritable bowel syndrome on a cruise ship, imagine what they’d get when the dead started eating people on cruise ships?
the black dude literally says "It's alright, they're slow." BUT I'M SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT MUHfukkAS TRAINED TO FIGHT OVERSEAS WOULD DIE AT THE HANDS OF WALKING, DEHYDRATED, MALNOURISHED ZOMBIES 
