Diocletian Zombies
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I take my cue from the Roman emperor Diocletian, who decreed a command economy where more or less every son had to follow the trade of his father, and nobody gets to change trades.
Say the first zombie was a blacksmith. The blacksmith-zombie bites, say, a cavalry officer.
Now the cavalry officer becomes compelled to perform zombie activities in the manner of a blacksmith.
When the cavalry-blacksmith zombie then bites, say, the director of human relations at General Motors, the next thing you know GM is hiring cavalry-blacksmith specialists like there is no tomorrow.