Half the population claims it's all a hoax and lets zombies bite them because anything else is a violation of their freedoms

Large swaths of gun owners take to the streets, and half of them die quickly because they put more money into the number of guns they had or making them tacticool instead of putting rounds through them or sighting them in.

It gets overly politicized.

The literal collapse of civilization, yet some corners of the government and billionaires are still trying to milk out the last drop of money