Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Know Your Enemy
By Liam O'Leary
2) You Don’t Need To Keep Zombies To Observe Them.
I imagine that some people out there will look at my whole “Observe and Report” entry and think “Oh! Well, observing zombies will be easy! All I have to do is collect a few and just watch them!”
That would be a terrible idea.
Don’t get me wrong: In theory, it would be easy to corral a bunch of zombies. All you’d really have to do is dig a pit, and let them walk into it.
The problem is, keeping zombies is a disaster waiting to happen, like keeping a tiger in your house. All it would take is for one moment of carelessness, one accident, for either you or a member of your group to stumble into your zombie pit, and probably get torn to shreds, or, at the very least, infected. Even if you kept them in a pen, all you need is for someone to get too close or for a breakout to happen, and you’re equally as screwed. Not to mention, even the act of catching a zombie isn’t exactly going to be a cakewalk, I mean…do you have one of those animal control poles? Do you know where to get one? If not, once again, you’re one mistake away from getting bitten, and for what? Something you could just as easily learn from a distance? Why take the risk?
While we’re at it, if you got someone in your group who insists on keeping zombies, you should keep an eye on them. Think about it: Unless that person is a doctor, or an epidemiologist, or a virologist or something like that, and you are in a place that has the means to actually try to cure or study the zombie virus, then, what the hell do they need to keep zombies for? Unless it’s to be chained to your fence to ward off other zombies with their smell (Which is something you’d need to check, by the way), then…there’s not really a good reason to be keeping them, and someone who insists on it? It’s sketchy, is all I’m saying.
There are ways to learn about zombies in the apocalypse, and ways not to. One is more likely to keep you alive, the other is more likely to get you infected. Choose wisely.