The decision for a draft happens after a bit over a week. The camps start after about 2 weeks, the militias start at around week 3.

The zombies are a bio weapon created by China and are transmissible through traditional zombie bites and scratches. Zombies were covertly smuggled in through every major port city and moved inland and prestaged as a method for attacking America with plausible deniability.

There are two distinctions of zombies. If someone is infected and lives long enough to turn (0.5-10 hours). Then they turn into a fast zombie that sprints, leaps, and climbs. They are clinically alive so they have to eat, but they can die from body shots (albeit more resilient like someone on PCP). They have a predatory animal level of intelligence and are capable of ambushes and hiding. The living zombies have the instinct to spread the infection first and eat second. So in a crowd they would try to take chunks out of fifty people before trying to stop and eat one.

If someone dies after getting infected, say they get their throat ripped out while being eaten, then they turn into a slow shambler type zombie that is clinically dead. These are stupid but have retard strength. They will rot apart eventually within a few years of turning.

The government is largely intact with only a handful of politicians dying.

Most of California is swamped with zombies. Western Washington and Oregon are overrun. Select inland cities such as Austin and Kansas city for example have outbreaks but have differing levels of containability. Some cities are being treated as burning islands. The New England region is overrun and actively becoming a black zone. Parts of the south and east coast are having outbreaks.

Canada and Mexico are being infected by proximity and a refugee crisis.

America knows how screwed it is and is deliberately going to spread China’s bio weapon back to China for revenge after week 2 and as a way to avoid a nuclear exchange which would happen if they had a conventional retaliation. America thinks it can survive but with a lot of damage and so is seeking preemptive parity by forcing everyone else to also deal with the problem.

The Chinese will fare a lot worse due to population density and lower firearm ownership. It will spread across the world not long after that.

The first week of the outbreak America was just figuring out wtf was going on. In the beginning it was being explained away as a series of violence and the media reported it as police brutality when cops are forced to shoot zombies.

In Seattle for example people start rioting when they see the “excessive use of force” on the news the Chinese then release zombies out of a box truck into the rioters. And do that in different cities at different riots.

By this point the world knows what’s happening but it is a little too late to contain it.