Instead of THE GUBBMINT being evil by LOCKING EVERYTHING DOWN in some scary QUARANTINE ZONE or the like, imagine a "got to build up zombie bite immunity" response, or one with pseudoscientific treatments, or pretty much anything so 
can feel like things are back to normal while zombies are just a thing that continues happening.
Add your own ideas if you like. 
The novel "World War Z an oral history of the zombie wars" (very little to do with the E N T E R T A I N T M E N T F R A N C H I S E) featured a hogwash vaccine. The interview with the Big Pharma CEO is presented as he is shoveling shit for a power plant under armed guard.
Did I misremember? I could have sworn he was shoveling shit for some new farming grift he had and completely escaped any and all consequences for his actions
Yea unless I'm remembering wrong he was basically chilling in Antarctica having made mad bank from his fake Phalanx™ "vaccine"
The pharma exec had a bunker in Antarctica he was living in. The guy shoveling shit was the VP or chief of staff or something for the administration that let the zombies get out of hand.
Oh yea that's right, I had the two confused, it's been a couple years since I read that book
There's a nice deconstruction of WWZ ongoing on SV.
Lets Read: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
It takes the form of a in-universe read through of the text, challenging the Hard Men Saved The World narrative as a piece of propaganda to support the US Junta and their overseas allies, by a survivor in Bristol. It reinterprets many events to actually make some kind of sense - North Korea isn't a spoopy megabunker, but close enough that propaganda can spin it that way. Yonkers was a deliberate destruction of units and officers who were considered unlikely to support abandoning half the country to die and couping the government.