Perhaps you have heard of creutzfeldt jacob disease, rabies, gangrene, or flesh eating virus. Perhaps not. All of these afflictions have traits that are similar to some aspect of a zombie affliction. Viruses mutate all the time, at a rate exponentially greater than large organisms, due to their extremely short lifespans. If the wrong virus, such a Rhabdoviridae virus which is the family where rabies resides, met the wrong prion a zombie-like affliction could be born.
If you consider yourself such an expert, you would know that zombie is a Haitian word for a mindless human being created by poison, drugs, sensory deprivation, and the torture of being buried alive in a waking coma/near death state. The beloved undead zombie was a creation of George Romero, and is a combination of many folklores. In "Night of the Living Dead," the first modern zombie movie, the cause of the dead returning to life is merely hinted to possibly be the result of a meteorite impact on Earth. Whether it is radiation or a microscopic alien life form is not even debated. Many early zombie movies had had drastically different means of an outbreak occurring, such as chemical spills and radioactive waste. Zombies occurring due to a virus is a relatively new idea. In the 80's the fear was nuclear. In the 90's and 00's the fear became pandemic. This in itself is proof that the lore has shifted and evolved over time reflecting different fears, and if the lore changes with the times, your argument has already lost validity.
Again, if you consider yourself such an expert, you would note that two of the best zombie movies of recent times are "28 Days Later" and "The Crazies." If you disagree, you are in the minority. In these movies the infected are not even dead, but the fear is the same, a mindless aggressive human human being that cannot be reasoned with, feels no pain, and will not stop until utterly immobilized or their one goal is achieved....to make you one of them. So again we have the zombie genre expanding with new ideas while the core fear remains the same.
Lastly, in specific, we can look at Romero's second zombie movie, "Dawn of the Dead." In this seminal work, we see that those that are infected do indeed break down and as they die, the line between living and dead is blurred. The same is done in "Maggie," they have just chosen to make the transition longer. The virus is referred to as "necroambulist," which literally means "walking dead." So when the infected turn, they do in fact transition from living to dead. Your problem seems to be that the infected gradually display zombie-like traits before they die. It seems that you are not at all familiar with terminal disease. Unfortunately, I am. I have watched someone slowly die, and believe me, the line between before and after death becomes quite blurry towards the end, and the medical term for this is "transitioning." The phrase "one foot in the grave" has more meaning than most realize.
"Maggie" is the first movie that I have seen that delves into an aspect of a zombie affliction that has for my knowledge gone untouched, save for perhaps "I, Zombie," and that is that this sort of infection is a terminal disease. It is a metaphor for dealing with a loved one having a wasting disease such as cancer. Given that cancer rates are on the rise, it is not surprising that we have a movie that now brings this viewpoint to the genre.
All in all, your opinion is your own and you're entitled to it. Your arguments and biases, however have absolutely no validity and are highly uneducated and poorly thought out. All you have succeeded in doing is spout negativity, and judging by the comments others have made you are once again, in the minority.
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