Yeah, the LEGIT data confirms that global civilization is pretty screwed in the Zombie Exodus setting. The junkyard group will likely have to survive as best they can in Colorado.
One US state that might be of particular interest in a zombie apocalypse setting would be Hawaii. The Hawaiian islands are separate from the world’s large continents, so once you cleared any and all zombies off of them, there are no more zombies migrating in.
Hawaii is also the most militarized state in the U.S. per land area, home to Joint-Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and around a dozen other military bases.
These bases combined hold tens of thousands of active-duty personnel, massive supply caches, naval warships, air assets, as well as the Naval Communications Telecommunications Area Master Station-Pacific or NCTAMS-PAC, which is a central communications node for all U.S. forces in the Pacific region.
The five international airports on Hawaii would certainly bring the Zeta virus, but with all of the local bases, naval ships, and other assets likely available, US military forces in isolated Hawaii would have a better chance of stopping the zombies cold than in most places.
NCTAMS-PAC could also used to call all able U.S. Navy warships (including amphibious assault ships with large mechanized Marine units aboard) in the Pacific to Hawaii to assist in clearing zombies from the Hawaiian Islands. What’s more valuable in the zombie apocalypse than an island fortress cleared of zombies?
Once the Hawaiian Islands are clear of zombies, you’ve got a Safe Haven and a Safe Harbor that can be entirely locked down from future infection. No ship docks or aircraft lands in Hawaii without verifying no infected onboard (or risk eating a missile.)
While supplies at Hawaii would be severely strained by societal breakdown and newly arriving ships with evacuees, a zombie-cleared Hawaii would at least be a Safe Haven where the U.S. Pacific Forces could regroup, come to terms with the apocalypse, and figure out how to address the zombie-overrun mainland.
What do you all think of this?