So then there's two risks... being bitten/scratched, or just breathing? I'm wondering how they're gonna play that. If the plague is airborne, then it has to have affected some of our main characters, and they're all going to die. But if somehow the plague only makes you a zombie after you've died, while it laid dormant in your system until then, then it's really not so consequential in the larger scheme of the show, except that now, if someone dies from anything at all, they need to get re-killed. Not much of a game changer, really, except in the case of someone wanting to die even less, because they know they'd become a zombie.
I dunno.
Well, hopefully they do have somewhere they're going with this. I just can't see how it'd add anything to the show at this point.
I'm just hoping it doesn't turn out to be some crap they did for effect.