How realistic does a zombie apocalypse or post apocalyptic story has to be?

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Well. To be "realistic", zombie apocalypse just cant happen at all.

Simply because dead people naturally rots. So if you just trap yourself in a place with enough food for a couple of weeks, the zombie will just rot and rot away until they get so feeble they wont even be able to walk and be a threat anymore.
That's just limiting your imagination, though. He's an author. 'Unrealistic' should not be the stumbling block for the imaginations of an author. After all, magic is more unrealistic than zombies.

There are plenty of ways zombies can exist realistically, and by association, a zombie apocalypse is a definite possibility. So much so that many countries are actually preparing action plans in case zombies do come true one day. While these action plans are mostly based off George A Romero's slow, rotting zombies, there are also countermeasures proposed for the Rage Virus from 28 Days Later.

While the 'countermeasures' known to public are usually humourous in nature, such as USA's guide on zombie apocalypse, these proposed countermeasures are a thinly disguised proposals for dealing with a more normal threats, such as international war. So these guides are pretty legit. Not the zombies they're supposed to deal with, though, that's just to get people more interested.

Even in our history, zombies exist. Yes, they did. They weren't dead people, but merely living people reduced to vegetables and used to perform basic services such as farming. At some point, they either become zombies permanently or break down after being used non-stop. In many modern pop culture, the concept of zombies as dead bodies brought back to life through magic is also increasingly pushed aside for scientifically plausible zombie types, such as the ones in 28 Weeks Later (where zombies were just infected with simian rage virus), World War Z (where zombies were infected by a different virus) , House of the Dead (where zombies aren't even people and are mass-created in labs) and Resident Evil (where the T-Virus mutates humans and animals).
 
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