Guess this is an ad hoc poll for where on the spectrum would you be on the zombie apocalypse, but I do expect halo effect to alter the results.

The question is would you be hostile or friendly to other survivors you come across if they had no recourse for their actions

The main assumption is that You have the inherent resistance to the plague so that way you can you can start in a heavily populated area and make your way out or live in there.

I would be curious if people would hide away for the rest of their lives in a cabin in the woods.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    How my fellow USians handled (and are still handling) COVID-19 showed my wife & me that there are only four or five people we can actually trust in a zombie apocalypse. Everyone else would get got for either not taking it seriously enough or not being reliably vigilant.

  • Jerb322@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    For a long time the plan was to head up to my friend’s house. Cuz he was big into guns and lived basically in the middle of nowhere.

    We talked about being defensive but helpful as possible, without sticking our heads out too far.

    He passed away a couple years ago and now I’m not sure what the hell we’d do. I’ve always been outdoorsy, so probably go to one of the woods I’m familiar with and hide out, at least for a bit, to see how things pan out.

    So, very defensive, but not very aggressive.

    Edit: I’m also pushing 50. I’m still pretty fit, but it better happen soon or we’ll probably end up sitting here. Defending the house as long as possible.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      Yeah interesting to see old age would affect people’s outlook of the apocalypse. I’d like to think the older I get the more I’d look more to the future and leaving the a legacy even in a shitty cataclysm

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    Zombies are so dumb, they don’t even know where the brains are, they always go after the abdomen.

    If you can’t defeat a slow moving undead creature with fewer active brain cells than Donald Turnip, then that’s on you…

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Friendly! I have experience growing food and I’m pretty good at cooking it too. Someone else can teach me how to kill and eat the deer that infest this area so that we can have a balanced diet. We will do mutual aid and survive against challenges that we could not face alone. Apes together strong.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      Yeah I’d try to bring power back to whatever survivors are left so that fridges could run to preserve food longer. It’s funny to think we would start to like each other when we start sharing expertise

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 month ago

    Shit, I’m hostile now.

    Legit, I’m usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don’t trust any motherfucker at my back until they’ve proven they can be trusted.

    That’s how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Fortunately, a samurai is probably better equipped to handle the undead than the average person.

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    People tend to change when facing true hunger and scarcity. Hard to tell. It can go really quickly into shoot first ask questions later, but really depends on the depth of desperation.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      I forgot to add an assumption that there would be plenty of food and resources since their would be empty houses with food in them at people’s time of death. You could be the 1 survivor in 50 or 1 in 1000 so like you’re gonna get enough food for years to come. Of course there’s farms that might be planted that will be ready for harvest.

      It’s weird to think you can invade a power plant and raid the fridge.

      You could take on a small structure and move up to a small town then cities once you’re conditioned.

      But that’s just me musing

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    At first, hostile. Once things settle and communities start to form, I’ll be friendly. But for the first few months, I’ll be protecting family and possessions aggressively.

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 month ago

    I assume zombies function like in Plague Inc. They eventually just starve to death after some months, so just being closed in couls be okay for some months imo.

    But I would be a cautiosly friendly one prob who eventually gets exploited by trusting in people sorta.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m generally a nice person who wants to help and do right by other people. But, I also have to balance that with my abundant paranoia and distrust of people. So I dunno.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      I’d be weird and leave radios for people to find and then have them contact me from a distance

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      I probably should have asked if people would think other survivors would be friendly. I think people would friendlier because theirs a common enemy and resources to go around

      • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 month ago

        I don’t think resources would be plenty. Then look at Covid and how people behaved when toilet paper was suddenly a luxury. And then we at least had a somewhat functioning government.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 month ago

          There was actually plenty of toilet paper, it’s just that panic buying causes pointless shortages. If we had a functioning government they’d have rationed toilet paper to make sure everyone could get enough.