Boston Would Be TERRIBLE In The Walking Dead

1) Doctors Are Most Exposed To Zombies.

The key argument as to why Boston would survive a zombie apocalypse is, in all honestly, a logical one: With all the hospitals and biomedical companies in and around the city, Boston would likely be the first place a cure would be developed.

There’s one teensy problem with that: Doctors (People vital to medical research) would be the most exposed to the zombies of any group of people in society.

Think about it for a second: When people start getting bitten by randos across the city of Boston, where do you think they’re going to go? Hospitals.

Considering what had happened to them, they’d want to make sure that they hadn’t contracted rabies, hepatitis, or any of several other dangerous diseases from whoever bit them. The further along the outbreak goes, the more bitten people you’ll have flooding the hospitals, and the more chances the people you’ll need the most will be taken away from you by the very people they’re trying to save.

Also, while I don’t doubt that the highly trained medical professionals and scientists we have in and around Boston are capable of finding a cure to a zombie virus (If such a thing is even possible), what I do doubt is their ability to do so quickly.

Now, I say that because, well, look at the coronavirus vaccines. How long did it take to get those? A year? And, that was without dealing with a disease that turns its carriers into bloodthirsty, mindless, nigh unkillable walking corpses, and without communication and utilities and food production grinding to a complete halt.

Add in all those hurdles, and how long do you think it would take for even a full team of researchers, doctors, and scientists (Which I don’t think you’d have) to complete this project?

A year? Two years? Three? TEN?!

However long it would be, I’m willing to bet it would take a hell of a lot longer than it did for the first coronavirus vaccines to hit, and, in that time, who’s to say what would even be left of society when they finished.