miami zombie

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It's hard to tell your side of the story without lips....
Can't help feel sorry for the guy, he has his face bitten off by a bath-salt-abusing junkie and is then criticised for being an alcoholic, perhaps he could be cut some slack?

Facts cut no slack and I don't see where any value judgements were made of him. However, I do wonder how he survived the trauma -- I wonder if his alcoholism (and the alcohol) provided a pain killer.

Since the hospice has publicly commented that the primary issue is averting sepsis and infection, it would lead me to believe that he has a suppressed immune system.

He lived on the street, which is a very dirty and unsanitary place. If he had a suppressed immune system all the time, I do not believe he would be alive, prior or even now due to the virulence of pre-existing bacteria in a suddenly extremely stressed environment (IE getting your face eaten).

So I wonder if the victims initial state was inebriated, which may explain why he's still alive and not dead from shock.

But please, go on. The victims emotional state and their virtual representation of them in your mind must matter more than what is published.

It seems pretty logical to assume that he was inebriated but the fact of the matter that I am focussing on is that he had his face chewed off by another man, I don't think there is really anything that he could possibly have done to warrant what is widely publicised to be a 'zombie attack'.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that what is published is wrong but when you place a slant on a story of cannibalistic attack whereby you criticise the victim for being an alcoholic (which, admittedly, he was) and portray the attacker as a bible-reading christian (which is, in context, supposed to mean he was a moral person, for some obscure reason) it hardly seems right to me.

Perhaps I'm speculating too much but the emotional state of the man must be pretty fucked up about now, being sans visage and receiving less sympathy than perhaps he deserves. Yes, being an alcoholic is bad, but eating another man's face is worse.