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"As the sun rose high above the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania, the smoke of burning cities and towns choked the air. The once beautiful landscape of fall leaves noticed by all this time of year now went ignored as folks ran for their lives. Or drove. Or crawled. The interstates were packed with dead vehicles, their owners most likely sharing the same fate. The number of infected dead (that's what the news anchors were calling them by this time), increased and spread quickly thanks to the aid of public transportation and the blind stupidity of the general public. Scientists were saying it was a virus that killed the host within hours, and then reanimated the body via the brain. They also said it was transmitted by bites. Yeah, tell us something we didn't already know. Almost everyone who had ever watched a zombie flick or read a zombie book knew how it was transmitted and that if a zombie bit you, you were toast. Put a bullet in your brain, end your suffering before it began.
Regardless of where or how this virus started, it was able to spread quickly because the folks who hadn't watched or read the aforementioned zombie fare didn't have a clue what was going on. They believed the stories the local, state, and federal governments were spinning. Looters, riots, terrorists, pick one - there were several theories. The government waited until it was too late, waited until local reporters from around the country were already covering the stories, waited until the number of walking dead was so high a successful counter-strike was nearly impossible. But I couldn't really blame them. Zombies rising up and wiping out our species was a pretty fantastic notion; humans in general couldn't help their narrow-minded ignorance.
The point is, people thought they could either close their eyes and make it all go away, or outrun it. Jump in their cars, and just drive. Except it only took a day or so for it to basically spread across the country, and the odds of running into a pack of zombies increased with each minute. So the ignorant masses packed the interstates, creating a deadhead all-you-can-eat buffet. Those "in the know", however, battened down the hatches and prepared for a fight, or loaded up with supplies and headed for the hills. Unless they were trapped, which let's face it, was the more probable scenario."
-- Excerpt from Roads Less Traveled: The Plan
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