 Originally Posted by MinionZombie
Well, Peter says in Dawn that from his experience that he's seen someone bitten last "no more than three days". He's not saying that's for everyone, but from his personal experience that's the longest he's seen someone go before turning, which then justifies Roger's slow decline.
However, he's not saying in there how quickly other people can turn. It could easily be a mere three hours, say, before someone else could turn.
Cholo chooses to turn and see how the other half live, but he's also got a bit of a trek - blood pumping through his system, carrying the infection. Sure, it can be argued that there is an element of plot convenience, but it's already established in the series that there's a range of time that it affects people, which is fair enough. Just look at Covid - it barely touched some people while it hammered (or even killed) other people.
In terms of saving someone from a non-lethal bite, well ... the amputation would have to be done very quickly (e.g. Sarah performs the amputation in Day within a minute of the bite). Every second that passes, that infection is seeping into the bloodstream and then getting pumped around the host's body. There'd come a point, quite quickly, where amputation would be pointless as the infection has already spread. So it does have to be done pretty speedily, and without immediate access to some kind of medical help, you'll bleed out.
Cholo's decision is from a man weary of the whole game - a very rigged game - and, for him at least, the whole world is tumbling down. So he has one last thing he needs to do and that's all he needs out of life at that point - to get Kauffman.
In Dawn Peter's prediction based on his experience with the zombies comes quite true: Roger survives a few days. And he has not one, but two zombie bites! In Day, no one except Steel is in any rush to dispose of Miguel. He got bit in the arm, and Sarah thinks she might have cut off his arm in time to stop the infection. The plan now is to keep an eye on him. If his health deteriorates, then that means the infection was not stopped in time, so they will dispose of him. There is no rush to kill him. Miller is quickly disposed of, but there is a good reason for it: he got his throat ripped open by a zombie, he is bleeding to death, there is no hope at all for him, he will die from such a wound and come back as a zombie, it's only a matter of minutes. All of this is very different from what we see in Land, though. As soon as anyone gets bitten, even if on the arm or hand, nothing immediately lethal, the other characters promptly get ready to dispose of them. There is no time to waste. A bitten person is seen as an immediate threat by everyone.
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