an analysis into how the RAGE virus spread

After watching re watching 28 Days Later awhile ago I was curious on just how fast the RAGE virus could spread and why it wasn't stopped.

Okay some background, the RAGE virus is basically follows the road of any zombie virus, it's an infection in the blood, when a host is bitten by an infected they turn into an unstoppable RAGE infected killing machine, the virus in the movie was introduced through chimps and some animal right activists breaking in to free the chimps from a research center, they ultimately end up with the chimps infecting them and a scientist, then as this virus spreads from a single clinic to infect 99.9% of Britain's population in 28 days.

This brings into question, those three infected manage to infect (lets say a village of about 300 people) and let it spread from there, did any farmers not have a shotgun, don't people not have any knives or anything to defend themselves?



I've pointed out several problems with 28 Days Later before but when our characters in that movie encounter the British soldiers who've secured a Victorian style mansion in the woods are armed with just their SA-85's seem to have no problem defending their area.




Yet at the start of the same movie it was stated that the main infection had sparked and rampaged throughout the countryside, and that the army blockades had been overrun, of course the mansion one we saw in the movie was overrun from an internal dispute and a chained infected being let loose, but surely the entire British Army could have at least protected London from this outbreak!

Now onto 28 Weeks Later, this was probably the biggest crap fest of a movie I have ever seen in my life, it could have been brilliant, even though it was action packed (towards the second half that is) it was the biggest disappointment of a sequel I have ever seen since Alien 3, it just reeked of bad writing.

The story focuses on 28 weeks after the initial infection had broken out (hence 28 Weeks Later) and shows the US Army securing London, District One (based on the Green Zone in Baghdad apparently) is set up to house civilians being imported into the city, the infection is dead until some woman who is immune to the virus is found, kisses her husband, he becomes infected and less than 10 minutes all hell breaks loose!

The extreme lengths that the writers go to to make this disaster happen is just unreal, apparently the woman who had been quarantined didn't warrant a guard or any kind of surveillance, this one lone infected manages to take down several armed American soldiers almost instantly!



Then when the Red Alert is actually issued every single civilian freaks out, you think a closely guarded military complex would at least give the civilians a drill in case you know, SOMETHING LIKE THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, and putting over 200 civilians in one confined area is obviously the best thing!
Sure when was a containment room set up to actually contain something!?!

And just to make the situation worse the commanding officer actually orders that the whole city be plunged into darkness. How does this help the situation? It panics the survivors and makes it even harder to see whats going on. This makes less than no sense.

While the US Army snipers guarding District One are ordered (wait for it) not select the tenth of the people infected but shoot everybody!
As if the whole containment strategy couldn't get any stupider it did!



Why not just drop napalm around the areas were the infected (and those fleeing civilians are), on screen I counted about 10 infected running and getting burned, and then after it a bigger horde of about 60 running towards the underground.

So there you have it, the danger of the fictional RAGE virus even though the writers set it up (well in 28 Days anyway) is made to be ten times as dangerous than it could have possibly been!