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*** And if you were willing to stand still and let said tendrils scope out your armor, you might be in trouble. Eventually. But ignore that. You don't need plate mail because none of the infected are wielding weapons. Human beings ''suck'' at inflicting damage on one another barehanded. It's why we invented weapons in the first place. Zombies (of any flavor) whose primary method of spreading infection is biting are a minimal threat. Even a ''dog bite suit'' will stop a human bite with ease. Hell, thick leather will do the job. Add a helmet and good gloves and congratulations you are now effectively bite-proof. Granted, armor won't stop someone from being physically overwhelmed by dozens of infected and, as Joel so colorfully put it, getting torn apart, and all armor is hot to wear. But effective armor against the infected would not be difficult to craft out of almost whatever materials are at hand. Personally, although this troper feels that it's an induced oversight to maintain tension that would otherwise be completely nullified, it could be explained in-universe as yet another case of FEDRA running with the IdiotBall for all it's worth; their focus appears to be on "bullets and pills, pills and bullets." They're not innovating or even pushing to make advances; they're maintaining the status quo. Could be a HanlonsRazor situation, could be simply clinging to power, but either way FEDRA shows amazing, borderline godlike incompetence when it comes to countering the actual threat and this is yet another example of it.
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*** If you have decent models to work from, plate armour isn’t - that - heavy. It’s designed to be fought in all day by men who needed their agility to dodge swinging metal, after all. Plus, they’re surrounded by all the metal they could ever need. All those cars for a start, plus tons and tons and tons of rebar. High quality stuff, too. Or they could just melt it down, extrude it through a spool and make chainmail. FEDRA might not think it’s effective, but there might be surviving groups out in the Wild who had a recreationist or two in their number who gave them the idea.
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*** If you have decent models to work from, plate armour isn’t - that - ''that'' heavy. It’s designed to be fought in all day by men who needed their agility to dodge swinging metal, after all. Plus, they’re surrounded by all the metal they could ever need. All those cars for a start, plus tons and tons and tons of rebar. High quality stuff, too. Or they could just melt it down, extrude it through a spool and make chainmail. FEDRA might not think it’s effective, but there might be surviving groups out in the Wild who had a recreationist or two in their number who gave them the idea.
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*** If you have decent models to work from, plate armour isn’t - that - heavy. It’s designed to be fought in all day by men who needed their agility to dodge swinging metal, after all. Plus, they’re surrounded by all the metal they could ever need. All those cars for a start, plus tons and tons and tons of rebar. Height quality stuff, too. Or they could just melt it down, extrude it through a spool and make chainmail. FEDRA might not think it’s effective, but there might be surviving groups out in the Wild who had a recreationist or two in their number who gave them the idea.
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*** If you have decent models to work from, plate armour isn’t - that - heavy. It’s designed to be fought in all day by men who needed their agility to dodge swinging metal, after all. Plus, they’re surrounded by all the metal they could ever need. All those cars for a start, plus tons and tons and tons of rebar. Height High quality stuff, too. Or they could just melt it down, extrude it through a spool and make chainmail. FEDRA might not think it’s effective, but there might be surviving groups out in the Wild who had a recreationist or two in their number who gave them the idea.
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*** If you have decent models to work from, plate armour isn’t - that - heavy. It’s designed to be fought in all day by men who needed their agility to dodge swinging metal, after all. Plus, they’re surrounded by all the metal they could ever need. All those cars for a start, plus tons and tons and tons of rebar. Height quality stuff, too. Or they could just melt it down, extrude it through a spool and make chainmail. FEDRA might not think it’s effective, but there might be surviving groups out in the Wild who had a recreationist or two in their number who gave them the idea.
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** The finale shows that the US Army initially tried setting up field hospitals near actual hospitals. When the orders changed from trying to treat the sick to "hold what you've got," they presumably just fortified those initial positions and then shortly thereafter they lost any unified command. It's entirely possible that some FEDRA somewhere ''tried'' to relocate and set up a remote QZ arrangement, but we don't see much of the country in the games or the show, and the FEDRA we do see is barely clinging to power.
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** Forcing undesirables to bait infected underground is entirely within character for how KC FEDRA was described.
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** Joel isn't heading for Jackson specifically, he has no idea Tommy is there. He's heading for a ham radio tower that Tommy previously broadcasted from, which could be rather remote from the city proper since Maria would not have wanted anyone transmitting from within.
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** The test is too easy and too casual for that to be likely. Even random low-ranking guards have the scanners and use them at the first opportunity. There would be no reason ''not'' to incorporate scans into basic medical tests, and likely any checkpoints in the city as well. Ellie had to have been scanned multiple times in her life, which means she had to have shown up as negative until she got bitten.
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** It may be that FEDRA didn't think it necessary to test a newborn with no visible bite marks and no infected tendencies (i.e., trying to bite people (at least no more than normal for a newborn/toddler, anyways). After that they never had reason to test Ellie because she never got bit until the Mall, from where she never returned to FEDRA- the Fireflies took her into custody (and did keep her isolated until they were sure she was immune). Why perform a test when you have no reason to? There's also probably regular medical checkups and (unfortunately) no private showers; any bite marks would be seen immediately (and the victim would promptly be tested and if positive, "euthanized.")
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* Why are the QZs all located in major metropolitan areas? Episode 3 revealed that the U.S. Government (and FEDRA, as their last surviving remnant) determined that the major metropolitan areas were the most highly infected areas, and went around to small towns and rounded up who they could (and of those killed any who couldn't fit into a QZ). But why take them into a city- where presumably there are a lot more infected- rather than just securing and fortifying one of said small towns- rather like Bill did his town except with the USA's/FEDRA's resources- where at most at the start there might be one or two infected? In addition then they're a long long way away from any infection hotspots, which increases their security in and of itself, plus gives them expansion room into surrounding rural areas for farmland and building additional houses.
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* Why are the QZs all located in major metropolitan areas? Episode 3 revealed that the U.S. Government (and FEDRA, as their last surviving remnant) determined that the major metropolitan areas were the most highly infected areas, and went around to small towns and rounded up who they could (and of those killed any who couldn't fit into a QZ). But why take them into a city- where presumably there are a lot more infected- rather than just securing and fortifying one of said small towns- rather like Bill did his town except with the USA's/FEDRA's resources- where at most at the start there might be one or two infected? In addition then they're a long long way away from any infection hotspots, which increases their security in and of itself, plus gives them expansion room into surrounding rural areas for farmland and building additional houses.houses.
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