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 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.
Same. Tbh, I wouldn’t even want to survive. That’s a shit world in which to live.
I'd head to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz.
I would not survive.
This is the answer. Most people won't survive the long term breakdown of society for long, and the "preppers" will probably be some of the first to go, as they will fight each other, become targets, and generally have a more antagonistic approach to survival. The people who stand the best chance will be the ones focused on collaboration and community building. But even then, surviving the initial collapse will be more about luck than intent.
I think that one of the major problems isn't even the zombies as such, but the collapse of infrastructure that we rely on to maintain our current populations. Transportation and associated trade. Electrical power. Fuel. Fertilizer.
Like, even if you omitted zombies from the equation and took those away, the population that could be supported is probably a whole lot lower than the present population. Pre-industrial societies were not very populous compared to current ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity
The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as the environment's maximal load,[clarification needed] which in population ecology corresponds to the population equilibrium, when the number of deaths in a population equals the number of births (as well as immigration and emigration)
Human carrying capacity is a function of how people live and the technology at their disposal. The two great economic revolutions that marked human history up to 1900—the agricultural and industrial revolutions—greatly increased the Earth's human carrying capacity, allowing human population to grow from 5 to 10 million people in 10,000 BCE to 1.5 billion in 1900.[47] The immense technological improvements of the past 100 years—in applied chemistry, physics, computing, genetic engineering, and more—have further increased Earth's human carrying capacity, at least in the short term. Without the Haber-Bosch process for fixing nitrogen, modern agriculture could not support 8 billion people.[48] Without the Green Revolution of the 1950s and 60s, famine might have culled large numbers of people in poorer countries during the last three decades of the twentieth century.[49]
Not with that attitude you wouldnt
As I’ve grown older, survival has become a burden. I’ve decided to embrace chaos by traveling in my shark suit and detonating any reactors I encounter. I’ve always been a morally upright person, so I believe I deserve to sought a little chaos in my life.
Trash Can Man? Donald? Donald Merwin Elbert? Is THAT you?
Ok, he didn't detonate them on purpose
Highly unlikely that anyone would actually "survive" a zombie apocalypse. It's more a question of how long you'd last, and for the vast majority of people that would be just days.
For example, if you live in a major city, it's highly unlikely you'd have enough supplies at home to wait out the initial chaos. Heading to the supermarket to fist-fight over a can of beans, or going to the gas station, is exactly what everyone else is doing too - and that's where you either get killed by a panicking human or bitten by the infected.
Even if you had the foresight to stock enough supplies to bunker down in your apartment for a few weeks (by far the safest place for you to be), you'd still be trapped inside a city full of the walking dead. The odds could not be more stacked against you.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure you'd only have to hold out for the few days it would take for the birds/ants/etc to eat through the major tendons on all the zombies, rendering them immobile, and then you'd be completely safe and the massive clean-up project could begin.
We're talking about zombies here - they're fictional, magical creatures that laws of nature don't apply to. If it did, we wouldn't have zombies in the first place.
Zombies don't have heartbeat, don't eat, drink or sleep. They decay extremely slowly and can only be killed by destroying the brain.
Sure, the birds/ants/etc aren't going to kill the zombies, but without any tendons the zombies aren't going to pose much of a threat.
It'd be just my luck that I wouldnt die quickly, being forced to trudge through worse and worse conditions.
Idk, not sure I really want to live in a post-apocalyptic world. Life is already hard enough as is.
Water, shelter, food, security. Everything is viewed through the lens of those priorities, in order.
Not only I wouldn't survive I would be that stupid character that makes the beloved character die because their idiocracy :3
I would die during the opening credits
My goal is to be patient zero. The alpha zombie with the canonically massive hog.
I believe it's generally accepted that zombies can't climb, or at least, they are really bad at it. So you basically just need to take the high ground. If you can get up a ladder or something, you would basically be safe and could easily pick off any zombies below with a spear or other ranged weapon.
Long term, I would probably go to the mountains, find a clean water source and plant crops. The mountainous terrain would be a big obstacle and most zombies probably wouldn't even try to go up. For any that do, I could probably set up some traps to lead them off an edge where they would fall back to the bottom.
Join the zombies 🧟
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.
I think about this a lot.
Basically, in any sort of supply disruption cities will become unlivable very quickly.
Everyone thinks they can go camping and fishing. You could only survive like that for a few days - most fisheries cant support thousands of people from the city.
If you dont already live on a farm, your only chance is to find a farm and offer your Labor and help defending it from thieves and refugees in return for food. Dig in and prepare to be over run by desperate refugees in the coming days. Pay special attention to sanitisation. If possible scavenge medication.
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.
i would vote
By running faster than the people around me.
Rule 1: cardio
But what if cardon't?
Cardo or cardon't, there is no cartry.
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.
Guns and fortification
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.
Step 1: anxiously bite nails.
Step 2: infected hangnail.
Step 3: Die.
Why would you want to?
Well I would need a stockpile of my medications
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.
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