Or just an apocalypse in general.
I would not survive.
Not with that attitude you wouldnt
Me either, but I’d have a great last several days on earth. Drugs, guns, and junk food.
I wouldn’t.
These survivalist fantasies where people paint themselves as capable and not fodder…
Hell, you outlast the outbreak/bomb you’ll probably die of sepsis the first time you get a bad cut or a tooth that goes rotten.
If it is truly the apocalypse, you are best just letting go, because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.
… because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.
I always loved that bit when I used to go to the clubs, because I was aces at swimming between all the drunks.
Not all us are helpless.
Infections are a real risk, yeah, but I’ve literally some antibiotics in my fridge, don’t even remember where from. Sure they’re expired and for specifically I think ear/nose/mouth infections, but they’d be of some help. Also I have the basics of mycology down, so making my own antibiotics wouldn’t be out of the question. Would it be risky, and entail lots of shitting my guts out? Probably. But if it was an apocalypse scenario and I had a bad infection, I’d take my chances. Penicillin is quite common.
I’ve also other medical supplies like large expensive-ish covers/pads for surgery wounds from my elbow surgery, they gave me extra ones as I had to keep it clean at home (and by extra I mean extra not ones I was supposed to use but in case I fucked it up etc) and general first aid kit ofc.
I’ve also 25 liters of fresh water, just in case, and a car with a full tank of gas, a freezer full of food, would last me months, plus the dry stuff in the pantry. Weapons, not really. Lots of knives ofc, not kitchen knives, but puukko, Finnish knives. From a pretty much pvp version that’s almost a small sword, to small whittling ones. (Got my first one at four from my grandpa, proper puukko from Lappi.) Got some mace, a foldable shovel that also functions as an ax. And a very small poundage bow. (You could perhaps hurt people with it with good arrows but honestly it’s a teenagers practice bow, more for the psychological factor I think.)
Besides all that, I also served a year in the military, where I went to officer training for supply logistics. Meaning everything you need to keep fighting fit, aside from medical assistance. Supplies, guns, bullets, clothing, water and especially food. So we were also taught how to slaughter and butcher various animals, and how to be relatively sure that what you’re eating and drinking isn’t going to kill you. (We also drilled a well in -20c by hand when the ground was literally frozen solid. Had to 6m deep iirc or was it even 8.) Also how warm you need to be, how much water you need daily. From all the basics from “don’t shit near where you make food” to more complex shit, like which bacteria live in which temp and what it takes to kill them.
So you know. You might let go, but I wouldn’t. I’m no prepper, and in fact find them rather comical. However I do live about 300km from the Russian border, so I don’t think any of this is in any way fantastical or even highly improbable.
I mean I don’t plan to crash a car when I’m in one, but I (almost) always use a seatbelt. Doesn’t mean I’m fantasising about crashes. But I have survived several though, so.
You’d die faster than the time it took you to write that fantasy lmao
Which part is fantasy, pray tell? Ask and I’ll prove it.
Wizard Island is a 5 hour drive. Deep freshwater lake, surrounded by water on all sides. Fish. In a volcanic crater so any zombies coming have to summit the volcano first, then be visible on the rim before getting to the water, where they sink.
This is the most solid plan I’ve heard yet
What If zombies can swim?
They aren’t buoyant. 😉 No air in the lungs.
It’d be just my luck that I wouldnt die quickly, being forced to trudge through worse and worse conditions.
Join the zombies 🧟
Driving (and living in) an 18-wheeler, I’ve got shelter and transportation already sorted. Got all the comforts of home on board. Enough food and water to last a couple weeks, maybe a month if I had to. I can carry enough fuel to drive ~2500 miles if I ditched my trailer, or to run my APU for nearly a year in “standby” mode. Sure, replacing that fuel once it’s gone would be tricky, but it’s a diesel. There are plenty of alternative fuel sources out there.
I suppose my plan would be to run away from civilization, but off the beaten path so as to not get stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. No need to go that far; a few dozen, maybe a couple hundred miles down a non-interstate highway should be sufficient to avoid most humans/zombies. Plenty of random warehouses and parking lots out in the middle of nowhere.
Then it’d be a matter of relaxing for a few weeks, keeping my head down, and listening to the radio for any news about a safe zone or what have you.
By running faster than the people around me.
But what if the zombies were riding mopeds?
Well shit, that’d be fucking cool and maybe I’d want to become a zombie if it means I get to be cool undead cannibals on mopeds.
This is the correct response
Are they wearing helmets?
Of course. Safety first
Poorly.
I could last a bit. We have outdoorsy supplies and can do without electricity, but it’s probably inevitable I’d just wind down or lose focus once and that’ll be that.
Defensive Plants
Took me a second
I might survive the zombies by not going outside like a shut-in but then die from something stupid like accidentally tripping over a rock.
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Form a citizen militia, go door to door and instruct people to start making spears out of what ever parts we can obtain. Train to fight in a formation.
Picks and shovels, construct earthworks to defend against a siege. Hold them out, funnel them into killing zones.
This is something that killed walking dead for me. There was a whole thing where they’re in the prison and the zombies outside manage to mass up enough that they break the fence. If they took shifts, 4 hrs a day with a spear and head stabbed the zombies they would never have gotten to a critical mass.
Infact, I did the math years ago for my ideal zombie escape zone. It would only take 8 people and a month to effectively eliminate the entire regional population if we move in 4 hour shifts. So baring the entire nearest metropolitan city showing up at once with a psychic level awareness of our presence and a deep need for revenge, all you really need is consistency and a schedule.
Yep, and surely most people are capable of killing >1 zombie unless they get pretty unlucky. You can only turn into 1 zombie when you fail.
I wouldn’t. I have an extroverted, anxious child who doesn’t know how to be quiet or careful.
That means you have bait for the first encounter. Not bad.
Briefly.
