No one seems to consider how zombies would not have enough jaw strength to pierce the skin and muscles of humans to eat them if their own muscles are rotting away. Over time their jaws would weaken and they would not be able to close their mouths.
There aren’t any rules for zombies besides whatever universe or writer makes them. If they write that the jaws are strong enough, that’s how it is. ZOMBIES DONT EXIST. So we don’t know HOW they would act or decompose
@@The_Ninja_Treein the zombie survival guide by max brooks, his version of zombies can take several years to die from decomposition due to all organisms, even nearly all bacteria and microbes having an instinctual aversion and avoidance of the virus that causes zombies and the tissue infected with it. Their decomposition is slowed even more when they freeze every winter. Meaning a zombie could reinfect a previously believed to be clear area decades after when someone steps into a pond and cuts their foot on a zombies jaw. It's also important to note that living humans actually have a limiter on how much of their strength they can use except in high stress, adrenaline situations, since in normal situations it could only hurt you. Even someone with very little muscle could theoretically generate a lot of force with it. In some works of fiction zombies very evidently have this limiter removed, (sometimes having more strength than should be theoretically possible) plus they never get tired, they will do the same action at the same strength and force, until that muscle disintegrates. Decomposition would still inevitably incapacitate and kill all zombies, but it'd take longer than you'd think.
No aspect of zombies makes biological sense. Muscles need ATP, calcium, etc to operate. That's why we create a suspension of disbelief. The only remotely accurate take is something like the rage zombies/infected of "28 Days Later."
Yes, but this probably wont be the reason for zombies in the real world. Most likely a infection disease or something similar. Also if a zombie did come out I feel like someone would've killed it before it became a problem or the military would've demolished zombies before it became an apocalypse.
Modern TV shows have revamped the traditional zombie narrative and did away with the zombies being graveyard corpses reanimated through supernatural forces trope and instead attribute it to an infection or viral pathogen as a result of which eliminated the logistical challenge of 'corpses breaking free from graves'
@@nand87the next logical step may be to forgo the undead part altogether, and return to good old fashioned ghouls Like in “I am Legend” they were called vampires instead of zombies, but functionally the story was the same as any other zombie apocalypse story (except the book made them intelligent)
in most fiction only the currently living are infected so people already dead usually don't reanimate. and if they do, just remember it's just that - fiction
Rain is usually the best time to move, especially for the sound-sensitive zombies. It’s hazy, the rain mutes out noises, the rain will clean zombie dirt off surfaces. It’s the ideal time to move. But they always think the best time to move is at night when it’s essentially the worst. It’s quiet, so any noise can startle a zombie you can’t see because of the lack of light
Also sound carries further at night because of how still it is which means lower ambient noise, and cooler air is more dense which carries sound better and bends the waves back towards the ground which amplifies them. Sure you might be harder to see (especially if you're avoiding hostile humans since we rely heavily on sight), but if you move through underbrush, step on a twig, etc, it's going to carry a lot further than in the day
Youd need a way to remain warm, though. As a survivalist and cyclist, the rain even in warm conditions is surprisingly cold. Youd want some form of garbage bag to cover yourself with to repel water while also making sure its breatheable enough to not sweat and get too cold from the sweat.
@@toughbutsweet1Doesnt really change much except you and the zombie can clearly see each other than the other just blindly following sound or following youe smell
Tip: when everyone is fighting at the grocery store for food and water; schools and offices will most likely be abandoned. These places usually have bottled water and food.
you gotta consider all the parents going to the schools to save their kids, and a bunch of roads near those schools are gonna be the first ones to get blocked with abandoned cars
@@mikadosannoji553 not during the summer; Plus schools in The US are usually stocked in food for up to 3 months. In case of a catastrophe. The governments uses schools as temporary disaster shelters, that are meant to be temporary while things go back to normal or they need to relocate people else where.
Diabetic here. When I first got diagnosed at age 20, I shed actual tears at the thought of how hard it would be for me to survive in a zombie apocalypse.
Yeah, your best hope to last long-term would be to both find someone with a compatible blood type and constantly drain your blood to receive healthier blood, on top of dieting when food is scarce.. All without getting an infection (be it a zombie or generic infection). Sounds fun, right?
If the Zombie Virus can't infect non-humans, then a LOT of animals will benefit greatly from the Zombie Apocalypse. Not just predatory animals like wolves, cougars, bears, and crocodiles, but also omnivores like raccoons and ESPECIALLY pigs. 30-50 feral hogs could easily do a number on a horde of zombies.
I think the zombies would still go after them just to eat (think The Walking Dead, zombies still went after and ate the animals but they didn't turn) so the pack of hogs could get overrun, depending on the horde size. The hogs would also have a hard time getting to the brains to actually stop the zombies
Yeah, but I don't think people have heard of the Chronic wasting disease (zombie dear disease) is affecting deer and could affect cows, moose, elk, etc. It's effecting animals first.
It can be difficult to happen depending on what causes zombie apocalypse, bacteria or virus there is the barrier of species and it's not easy to break it.
@@almogxchq5282 Shark suits would be ass in a Zombie Apocalypse lol. I'm not entirely certain about the Bear Suit but your mobility is especially cooked while wearing both.
@@EyeofKoruptionshark suits weigh like 200 pounds minimum, good luck having the stamina to wear that all day If the zombies have a bite force similar to a living human, just a few extra layers of clothing and a motorcycle helmet is all you need I’ve worked in nursing homes, specifically memory care, I’ve been but by a senile man who didn’t know what was going on, hurt like hell, but the scrubs I wore prevented the breaking of skin (still had a nasty bruise, but no risk of infection)
No one considers there will be zombie children. I know a lot of people who would be uncomfortable shooting them. Id be more concerned about the damn anklebiters being below my reach at 1.93m tall.
That was probably the single best scene in The Walking Dead - the first group finds out that the second group had been holding zombified friends and family in the barn in the hopes of waiting for a cure. The first group overpowers the second and releases the zombies to kill them But one of them turns out to be the 12-year-old girl who’d been separated from them and who they’d been looking for in case she was alive.
Yeah that's one thing I've always been afraid of with any kind of apocalyptic scenario.. can't even see my hand in front of my face :/ I'd be so screwed if my glasses broke. I mean I'd also be screwed in my daily life if they broke since I don't have hundreds sitting around to buy a new pair but at least people might help me call a cab or something
What everyone seems to be missing is this: It’s the apocalypse. There is about a 99.9% chance that you won’t be one of the cool survivors fighting for their lives, you’ll most likely die on day 1. As does nearly everyone else.
If I don't get infected by the initial disease then I would have a pretty good chance at survival, I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, I have livestock and crops, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and a bunch of heavy equipment and build a 40 foot wall around my farm with a mote, I would have all my family there to help and I could probably get the Amish that live nearby to help as well, they're great builders and they even have their own lumber yard and sheet metal factory, I would also use the heavy equipment to clear everything outside of the wall for about a mile, none of it would even really be difficult, the only thing that would be difficult is making boilers and turbines to generate my own electricity
im surprised nobody has mentioned the fact that within days of a mere mention of a zombie apocalypse other countries would just nuke the affected area to hell lmao
Bad idea. The only zombies that are gonna get killed are those caught in the explosion, all the others won't be affected by all the radiation and diseases because they are undead. You will just make zombies more dangerous by making their bodies radioactive and the conditions for humanity's survival will get worse due to all the nuclear wastelands that destroyed every possibly supply, resource or farming areas.
I may remember you of the fact that Nukes are not only hotter than the sun but also explode at light speed. I dunno which book actually knows about Real-Life Human Zombies not dying to the most devastating weapon known to man, but if they’re surviving that, we’re fucked
My favorite thing that I ask people that they never consider is. "What do you think happens to the person who encounters the first zombie and kills it? I bet they go to jail, and no one ever finds out."
That assumes only one person gets infected and turns into a zombie and that they're killed before infecting anyone else. Look at how fast covid spread before anyone even knew what it was. In nearly every zombie virus story, the virus doesn't immediately kill the host, it makes them sick for a period of time before they die. Most likely, Patient Zero would have plenty of time to spread the virus into the population before dying and reanimating, which means by the time the zombie virus is even isolated and identified, millions of people could be infected and be potential zombies when they die.
I think if a zombie "apocalypse" happened, I think it be more of the scene in Invader Zim where the mall gets swarmed with zombies, but it turns out they are too brain-dead for aggression and instead just waddle around groaning completely harmless.
Yeah, truly it is, how smart are the zombies? Frogs, Toads, and Lizards are predators, yet watch any feeding video and you can see how stupid they are. Bears can open some doors (would need opposable thumbs for round doorknobs) and trashcans and stuff. So, they'll either be smart enough where they will eventually figure out you're traps, or how to get in somewhere, or they won't really be able to do much.
Let's say you got infected with a zombie virus or fungal infection like in the last of us or dying light, the disease would eventually mutate to make zombies more violent if they weren't all wiped out along with the virus. It would be like covid but the infected get more violent and aggressive to spread by saliva and blood.
I think a lot of people overlook libraries since you could possibly look for survival books like how to farm your own food, how to build a proper shelter, how to make homemade weapons properly, how to purify water, or even how to generate your own electricity and such
Lucky I already know how to do all of that, except I would still need to study more on how to make boilers and turbines to generate my own electricity, but I live on a farm so I already have crops and a garden and livestock, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and I would take a bunch of heavy equipment and the diesel and gas tanks they have and build a 40 foot concrete wall around the farm with a mote, I would have all my family there to help and I would try and get the Amish that live close by to help, they're great friends with my grandpa and I would assume they would want a fortress to live in and be safe plus they're the fastest and most skilled builders I've ever seen
Tip: While everyone will have stripped the grocery store shelves clean of easily recognizable food and water, the Pet aisle will be untouched. Canned and also bagged Cat/Dog food is essentially astronaut food. It is packed with protein, vitamins and minerals. It may not smell, or taste appealing, but it will keep you ALIVE when food is scarce, and because no one thinks to grab pet food, it'll be the last stuff on store shelves. You can mix it in to other foods, or pour a bowl of dry with milk and pretend it's cereal.
Only problem I see there is other people would have that idea too. Same with vet clinics, medication for animals works for humans too, also you fogot people who have pets that they love, them aisles are raided man.
That's all good but what about your gag reflex. In trying to eat pet food a person could puke and reduce the water that's in their body. Vomiting could be deadly.
" Woah, buying the 12 pack of condoms, huh? someone's getting lucky! " " wha? oh, no. This is for the 'zombie apocalypse preparation ' sort of thing. "
It's a major point in the game Days Gone that zombies do indeed poop - which leads some scientists to the horrible realization that the zombies have been foraging. They're never going to starve off.
A scythe was the first lawnmower. Short lawns arose as a defense strategy because tall grass hides -Your Friendly Neighborhood Druid and Professional Landscaper
@@druid_zephyrusWasn’t it more just because rich people wanted to show off how they had so much land they didn’t even have to use it for any other purpose than decoration?
@DanDanDoe The first rich people were Lords and Lady's and Barons and Dukes and Governors. The _"kingdom"_ 15 miles across the stream was basically a large town with farms for 5 miles and the lawn surrounded the "castle". Whether that _castle_ was actually a castle. Once the "kingdom" was large enough *_then_* is when you get those same Lords Ladies etc spending their wealth to one up each other. Because their neighbor wasn't going to go to war against them. But they still needed to _be better_ That's when you start seeing landscaped fruit orchards instead of open short grass
@druid_zephyrus But grasslands were mainly just pastures. It wasn't kept short because enemies might hide in taller grass, it was kept short because the grass was food for cattle. Send some sheep or goats out and it'll be short in no time. No need to send out folks with scythes just to keep grass short. I'd say the lack of hiding spots in short grass was just an added benefit of feeding your cattle. Trees near the town were often cut because of defence though. The manicured lawns were more recent, indeed when defence became less important and the wealthy showed off their riches as decorative gardens.
I mentioned this once before but, the moment the power goes out, some people for the first time will get to truly see the night sky as our ancestors did before all the light pollution, it's one of the major silver linings to any sort of apocalypses really, and to those that have seen the nights without an ounce of light pollution know exactly what I mean here
I've experienced this a handful of times living down south as a child, during Hurricanes like Katrina where everything was down, but then other nights it was Pitch Fû¢king Black when the clouds were covering the stars too... I still vividly remember that type of darkness outside, felt like one of those dreams where you're having trouble opening your eyes for no reason.
I hope we one day figure out a way to keep the lights on while still seeing it. I'd love to be able to look at the night sky, but street lights say NOOoooo..
During the beginning of the apocalypse, zombies won’t be the only thing to worry about. Cars flying off the roads, aircrafts falling from the sky, etc. The outside environment will be a huge threat. There could also be a chance that as the apocalypse goes on, survivors could go feral.
Survivors going feral? You won't need an apocalypse for that. Consider: The year is 2020. Many dozens of people are at your local grocery or department store. There are only 2 bottles of water and 1 roll of toilet paper left on the shelf. Years ago, I remember one Christmas, when Cabbage Patch dolls were all the rage. I also remember a few people were actually shot because they grabbed the last doll and refused to part with it.
The worst part about glasses isn't that you never stop needing them. It's that no matter how well you take care of them, they'll become useless over time as your eyes get worse and worse.
@@The_Custos But unfortunately he's right because even if you loot the right set overtime your eyes get fucked and with no one being able to measure your eye sight properly and worst of all build a new pair of glasses you're effectively counting your days until you can't see shit. Even if you survive and your area gets mostly clear having bad eye sight is a death sentence because eventually you wont be able to scout for supplies or tell danger until you get close enough where it becomes a big problem. Also using the premade glasses is the worst thing you can do because it fucks up your eyes even more especially if you have different dioptries.
@@Rhyhmx still over playing it. Mine have been stable for over ten years. A timeline like that puts it into ten years later territory, and beyond standard zed concerns of do I survive the week?
@@The_Custos I had a classmate who had really bad eyes and got worse very rapidly to the point where he needed a new pair of glasses every other year and it stabilized more or less when he was around 17. I'd say generally you're right that for most people by the time their eye sight would become unusable the zombies would've been long dead with a pretty good chance that there are people who make can make replacement glasses even if they aren't perfect. Biggest issue is always losing the pair because just finding a replacement would be a nightmare and most off the shelf glasses are garbage and will ruin your eyes very quickly if they're already bad to begin with.
@@The_Custos You're right although I don't think it's "I survive the week" sceneraio because depending on the damage already done and how many more infected will emerge as a result of mosquito infection and what not can drag it out quite a bit longer. The bigger issue is the aftermath, but I do agree with you that unless the person loses their glasses or the damage is irrepairable they most likely either die or get a new pair before the current one becomes too weak for their eyes.
No one seems to consider covering their whole body with some sort of armor that could protect from bites. Why not just 3d-print it, for instance? It doesn't have to be bulletproof, just biteproof is enough and plastic would be easier to carry. If designed properly, it would protect from bites even if a person faints. And the same person could be still shot in case if they still become a zombie with this armor on.
My sister survived a dog attack with minimal injury as a kid because she was wearing a jacket since it was fall and it tried to grab her arm. It still hurt and she started to cry, but it wasn't a serious injury and I don't remember if it even drew blood. You don't really need armor specifically, just a decent buffer of clothing. Human teeth isn't nearly as sharp as animal teeth anyway. Plastic would be good as a bite deterrent, but you have to account for joints being exposed for mobility
In prison, guys make armer out of layered newspaper when they think there's a hit out. I know for a fact that a shank will not penetrate the Detroit Free Press Sunday edition.
just get a suit for dog training :) less likely to break, easier to carry (can be rolled up and stored away), its already bite proof and most importantly- they already exist. Your biggest worry with anything 3D printed or made from plastic is electricity. When shit hits the fan, you likley wont have time to make a "suit of armor" nor will you be able to order one online and have it shipped to you. Better to just get one of those suits and have it just in case if you trust that strategy and wanna go along with it lol
The walking dead comic did have the plastic looking armor for one of the community and one guy even prove it's biteproof by walking into a group of zombie wearing armor.
not sure about the dog training suit how easy it is to find, but im sure those boothlegs football mascots fursuits can be of use to admit to these situations 😅
If zombies are just walking gangrenous bodies then really depending on where you live the apocalypse should only last about a decade, but even before then most of the zombies would be imobile or Atleast damaged to the point of being next to no problem. The bigger concern would be the animals eating them
Even if the animals aren't infected by the zombies they eat, they will breed and multiply due to the new food source. Wild pigs would likely take over the world, and they are a lot faster and smarter than zombies.
@@vel5094 But in some zombie stories, animals don't seem to be able to be infected. It's more like a "human disease" of some kind. So maybe animals could be allies sort of. A bunch of hogs, bears, wolves or other could easily do fatal damage to many zombies. If they aren't too scared of them or repelled by the horrible smell of rotting corpses.
@@blackharmonics4518 Mosquitos don't need to be infected themselves to infect others. Simply biting a zombie then biting a live human would be enough to spread the virus. Same with ticks.
They don't consider that "zombie" could just be a metaphor for some other virus or sickness that could cause mutations and turn people into cannibalistic monsters. Think of the movie "I am Legend" as an example. They wouldn't necessarily have to be dead. They could still retain their physical abilities or even gain superhuman ones.
@@billzco6137 You're missing the point. I used that as an example, but it could be any type of genetic mutation that would cause people or animals to become aggressively violent. They wouldn't have to be undead. Like the zombie deer disease that's happening now. They aren't literally zombies, but they call it that metaphorically.
@@1108chuck 28 Days/Weeks Later is exactly that concept - they're not the walking dead, per se, they're just extremely enraged all the time which makes them act very zombie-like. Theoretically, if a cure for the "rage virus" was found and administered to the infected, then they would become normal people again (just, you know, saddled with _tons_ of PTSD) and by extension all of the ways a normal person can be stopped or killed also apply to them.
Also, the thing about drinking from a lake, amoebas. Be unlucky and drink from the wrong lake, and zombies won't be the only one eating on your brains. Edit:Oh yeah, and as for people with minor "disabilities" such as people who need glasses, people with intrauterine devices, people with screws in their legs to heal broken bones, yeah, most of them are going to die, either through infections or eaten by zombies. In a world without antibiotics, most injuries, even minor ones, will probably lead to infection and death.
Very minor injuries leading to death is a bit of a myth. Butchers somehow survive small cuts. Scouts survive camping and small injuries, martial artists and boxers survive cuts and bashes, builders survive hammer or nail injuries, hunters survive scratches, pokes and tears. I survived stepping on broken glass after a flood (no infection).
Nobody seems to consider that when society falls, key workers in society, the backbones of society and other niche professions (doctors, farmers, carpenters, architects, bricklayers, mechanics, metalworkers, electricians, gunsmiths, etc.) would likely be hoarded by other humans and kept like slave labour for communities. The resource war on the human front doesn't end at materials, knowledge and therefore people, are a resource too.
Or that when nuclear power plants go to shit because no one is taking care of them will cause extreme radiation spikes and possibly cause MAJOR climate change which means if the zombies,survivors,feral animals, lack of food, or sickness doesn’t kill you then the radiation and vicious changing climate sure will
We have ample evidence of highly developed civilizations actually failing. Architecs and knowledge-based Jobs are the _least_ important in societies actually collapsing in on themselves, when there is truly not enough food to go around. Also, 'Zombies' are incapable of collapsing a modern-day civilization.
ironically it'd be the opposite, they'd be the ones running things, they'd be the valuable one, no smart leader would even consider killing someone who is a key worker in society like you mentioned, unless its for something extreme, like treason or something
The “infected” types of zombies would die of dehydration within 24 hours. Unless they have enough clarity of mind to drink from puddles, lakes, or rivers.
If they do that they're gonna be so sick they won't see it coming,and they'll eventually die because they won't be able to heal from what they've contracted
I didn't know you could die of dehydration so quickly. I thought you could live for a few days without something to drink. Given what we seen in movies/games where they basically go feral though, I doubt they'd have the clarity to think about drinking water
@@Amayawolf_01 the rule of 3's. a human can survive 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without oxygen. We often get alot of water from the foods we eat or other drinks, which is why you wont see people die who dont like to drink it (although there are usually side effects.) But if youre actually deprived of water completely, youll become delerious and die pretty quickly edit: however being sick can make you dehydrated much faster. Sweating, vomiting, diarreah, anything like that increase the amount of water youre losing and can defiently shorten the time you have to survive. So while im not sure 24 hours would kill you without water, if youre extremley sick and are running a high fever, it just might (if that fever doesnt kill you first)
The actual stages of decomposition after death. After a few hours, the zombies would stiffen up and fall to the ground. Once that happens, the zombies wouldn’t realistically be able to infect anyone, unless someone has a cut and rubs zombie remains on it. After a few more hours, rigor mortis would go away, at which point their muscles would begin to soften up again. 1-3 days after death, their internal organs would completely decompose, and after a few more days they would start to bloat up. Afterwards, they would just start to liquefy. What you’d really have to look out for are zombie flies or other insects, which would eat away at the zombies and infect others. So essentially, what you’d really need for a zombie apocalypse is a safe place to wait out a few days or weeks in, a tolerance for gore, and a beekeeping suit. Then you’d move to an isolated place and live out the rest of your life. The world would probably be livable again in a few years, maybe a decade or two at worst.
That assumes the normal decomposition stages wouldn't be hindered or blocked by the infection. The majority of decomposition is the result of microorganisms using the body for food, but what if the zombie virus killed or subsumed those microorganisms?
No one seems to consider how every zombie could just be a really good method actor in a humongous post apocalyptic set because the likeliness of a zombie apocalypse or zombies in general is so unrealistic and unlikely.
There was an ad or something I saw like this. A guy was doomsday prepper and saw a zombie apocalypse outside. He then gets equipped, goes outside and kills a bunch of zombies. After killing a lot of them it pans to the film crew just looking at him like "😮".
I'm planning to write a zombie book and I did something new ( at least as far as I know ) I gave zombies a purpose for eating flesh, I've played many videogames and watched many movies but none of them even bothered to explain why do zombies eat the living while they don't need to do it, they're already dead they don't need food In my book, consuming flesh causes some kind of mutation. The mutation makes them more intelligent, increases their physical strength, makes them move faster and has a small chance to give them special abilities Edit: My zombies grow sharp bones from the tip of the fingers, they use their claws to rip the victim's flesh.This concept is not really mine an Irish writer called Darren Shan has already used it in his book series called ZomB but there are differences. 1: Similar to Wolverine in Marvel comics, my zombies can hide their claws in their hands when there's nothing to eat and pull them out once it's time to eat 2: Unlike Darren Shan's zombies, my version of zombies don't have bones on the tip of their toes, it's only their fingers 3: The claws of my zombies is not strong enough to Pierce through woods or bricks
I mean, do you really need a explanation? There is 2 very simple and logical reasons why they eat, nr.1 just because they are dead does not mean they dont require a energy source (obviously if we are talking about "zombies" that are literally skeletons it would not make sense) but also most zombies in main stream movies are not even dead, at worst slightly brain dead, so they eat what they see to get energy. Second reason, it could be a side effect of the virus, the virus makes them bite people to spread the virus...now there might be no moment where the virus tells them to move on to the next victim right away so they keep biting (and it might trigger the reflexes to eat what they are biting) Now like I said, I only know main stream zombie movies. (WWz, 28days/weeks/trainToBusan,RE,TWD etc.) and in all those movies, the zombies dont even eat the people, they only bite one until that person turns.....maybe in some they eat people, dont remember...but it would makes sense since I only remember watching movies with "human-like" zombies and those still mostly follow the rules that humans follow too, so they need energy, in some movies they also eat animals if I remember correctly
@@johnnywalker8282 THIS theoretical virus could. I don't think you understand how quickly a virus is able to mutate, and there has been viruses that infected multiple species. Also, it might not be a virus. It could be the cortycep fungus.
@@jaylee9552 Well according to almost every case of a viral disease, either bacterial or a virus, or even a fungal disease that causes neurological interference, we have never had something like that happen. Albeit things like rabies can effect humans in similar ways but not in the same way it effects a dog. A man with rabies cannot consciously drink water as rabies is I believe centralized in the mouth. They did studies on this including forcefully putting water in his mouth and his body itself rejected it. So a zombie disease may affect animals, but likely not to the same degree that it effects humanity. We may see something akin to wasting disease in animals as that is the closest we have to an animal zombie virus. Cordyceps being the most popular. But in reality a fungus like that would force the host to find a damp wet place to die in. Attacking others to ‘spread’ the fungus is not efficient or something a fungus would do naturally. Efficiency wise, it makes more sense to send a host to a place to die to spread their fungus in ideal conditions.
@@Baboonmomma cordyceps sporse from tlou, special infected from l4d, necromorphs in general, rakghouls from star wars eu(can retain the skills they had before turning), poxwalkers from wh40k(a spiritual infection that you can get just by being near them) and the multitude of zombie viruses/parasites that umbrella corp plays with could easily throw a wrench in that. So I reiterate, it depends on the zombie (or zombie adjacent) in question
@@marltonmanks9891 some are very powerful but ones like, The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, World War Z, 28 Days Later and ZombieLand stand no chance
I once read someone describe their idea that going to higher altitudes, like hills and mountains, would be generally better, as it forces the zombies to walk uphill. This would cause them to degrade their leg muscles faster, so while running uphill would be a bad situation, once you are significantly higher than the majority of them, it should make it less likely to run into them in general. Depends on the version we're going with, but sounded pretty plausible if it's simply a virus that animated dead flesh, as the physical components would be stressed harder
Nobody seems to consider that stores would likely be stripped bare, be traps used by criminals,or be occupied by other survival groups. Also most survival groups would be extremely distrustful,and slightly greedy,so the surrounding houses and other stores would be rendered unliveable for the sake of security.
Coffee,energy drinks,and other energy providing dry consumables would also be a highly valued resource that would likely replace most currencies. Many people would kill for a spike of energy that could very well save you in the long run. Second to this would be entertainment such as books,and if you have power,movies and video games.
Depends on the virus. Only a handful of viruses are transmittable via mosquitoes. If mosquitoes transmitted all blood-borne pathogens, we'd all have AIDS.
Plus the mosquitoes themselves would not be zombe as they do not digest the blood, but would instead bite just as good and give birth to hundreds of zombie mosquito eggs
The reality of the lack of medication will cause. If you're a person that has diabetes or high blood pressure then you'll have a bigger risk of dying long before a zombie gets to you. And also sadly, if you suffer from mental illnesses where you have to be medicated in order to fuction normally; the likelihood of others wanting you in their survival group will go down drastically. You'll be considered a liability, even a ticking time bomb of unstabliness, or even a threat to everyone else's safety.
I suspect that 90% of people with mental illness would find out they never had any type of mental illness and never needed any meds. They just needed to close their mouths in awe and stop buying every free bs out there.
The thing that scares me is this. The world is full of Nuclear powerplants, what happens when there's nobody around to keep check on the cores? Would we end up with Global Chernobyl events? Or is there some sort of emergency unmanned kill switch?
Modern reactors just melt into themselves and contain themselves into a hunk of concrete. The emergency unmanned kill switch is the fact that it figures itself out without becoming a danger.
No one seems to consider the fact that the wilderness will not be desolate anymore. Thousands of people will now be forced to hunt the local forests, making them extremely crowded and dangerous. Not to mention there arnt enough deer to go around
And some Deer carry diseases that are very deadly and will kill a human, I forgot what the exact disease was called. But it’s incurable and while we theoretically can’t contract it, it would still be a poor decision to eat that meat.
@@QuestionQuestionMarkyou are referring to Chronic Wasting Disease or Mad Cow Disease. The symptoms are really easy to spot so you’re fine as long as you know you stuffs.
No one considers working together, besides the ones who go crazy during an apocalypse the ones who don’t should work together, gather resources, plan things out.
Yeah allot of people seem to have very big trust issues or are just very introverted and believe that they would be some badass lone wolf when the reality is the majority of em will be grouping together with friends family and probably a few surviving neighbors and whoever that neighbors friends and family are in order to survive since sticking together and helping each other out is how our species survived for so long in the first place
People overlook the fact that, they are zombies, rotting corpses, rotting, most of the bodies in graves and stuff are only bones at this point, and those who arent, give them 5-10 days and they will be rotted away
Are you so stupid that you think people have those lying around the house? Also, how EXACTLY does a bite proof suit help you when 100 zombies and crawling all over you?
I suppose it depends on the type of zombie you're dealing with. But, lets just say it's like the ones from The Walking Dead or something. Basically, they're just dead bodies with the ability to walk. Since their bodies technically don't have ANY sort of proper function like a living person, such as, heart beat, blood flow, brain function, etc, etc, they would literally just turn into a puddle of goopy rot within a few months. (Depending on what season were in of course) Also, there were times in TWD where i would see zombies with entire chunks of flesh taken out of their arms, and the bone would be exposed and everything, and were able to grab onto a person, or rip them apart. Now, I'm no doctor, but i do believe you need to have a good amount of muscle, nerves, tendons, and other bodily parts and functions, to be able to grab, and hold onto something. You can't sit there and tell me that a rotten, reanimated corpse, with an entire chunk of muscle and such taken out of it's arm, has the strength to grab, and hold onto a living human. Naww, that's wack. Yeah, basically, just give the zombies a few months to rot away, and humans will be back to living their normal lives.
Tip: learn carpentry its a useful skill when wanting to build walls and wanting to repair places to live at in the apocalypse and most people aren't as good as they think they are at it
I think the number one thing people overlook when talking about the zombie apocalypse is that it cna just, HAPPEN. Everyone talks about having a bunker or hauling up at home. What if you were at the grocery store? What if your car broke down THE DAY BEFORE the outbreak happens? what if you used a majority of the food at home and then immediately had to start living off canned goods? What if you forgot to pay the water bill and couldnt bottle any while there was still some leftover in the tap? What if you had a shovel but it broke? People always talk about being prepared but if its anything like the movies, then it just STARTS and you wouldnt really be able to pre-emptively plan for it. Even with the bunker idea you'd basically never be allowed to leave it/ or leave your home otherwise the outbreak could happen when you werent there.
The amount of diseases that would return without regular medical care. Especially with so much rotting flesh around. TWD did a few episodes on it with one zombie that died from something infectious infecting the group at the prison.
Something people don’t seem to consider, is that pets, (except for REALLY well trained dogs/cats), would have to be put down…. If you don’t put them down, you risk them dying a fate worse than death. And I for one, would rather my pets dies a fast, painless death, than suffer in a zombie apocalypse….. Some people may think/say that they could keep their pet alive, but think about it. Could you? The dog that barks every time a leaf touches the side walk? You could keep that animal alive? Another thing, people ALWAYS overestimate their survival prowess. Everyone thinks that they would be the hero, the last person alive on Earth. Well guess what, you’re not, and you wouldn’t. Don’t try telling me that the teenager who always stays inside playing video games, the overweight person who thinks that they’re healthy, the people with mental disabilities, the people who need medications in order to stay alive, etc, don’t tell me those people are going to live for long…. They’re not….
I don't know about you but I think I would survive a long time in a zombie apocalypse and I could keep my pets alive, I live on a farm I have crops and livestock, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and also get a bunch of heavy equipment and build a 40 foot concrete wall with a mote around my farm, I would have my family there to help and I could probably get the Amish that live nearby to help, they're great builders and they have a lumber mill and a sheet metal factory, I would also use the heavy equipment to clear everything outside the wall for about a mile, I know how to forge so I can replace tools and make knives and I could also make ammunition, I could make canons for the wall, I would like to get a few 50 caliber machine guns for the wall as well but that might take more time, but honestly building the wall wouldn't really be difficult at all, I think I would do fairly well in a zombie apocalypse
@@johnhostetler2167 You most likely wouldn't, either everyone is infected and you're fucked unless you're somehow immuned, or the disease is transmitted by scratch / bite and the army eradicate the zombies in the first day.
You’ve commented this three times now. You’ve made slight changes each time. If you’re gonna do it then at least edit the previous comments or something
No one seems to consider that the zombies will not only die of starvation, but at some point they will become only bone. Usually for a body to decompose till bone, it takes around 2 to 3 years and it also depends on where the corpse is exposed. So thinking that the bodies will be exposed to absolutely everything, they would desintegrate even faster. If enough people could find a place to actually settle up, the actual method to stop the zombie apocalyse would be to wait . Once they lose all the muscles that keep them going, they'll literally die.
This is what I'm saying! The only actually possible thing would be like Patient Zero type zombies. People who are still alive with a rabies like virus who retain intelligence, but are aggressive and think themselves evolved.
The talk about people liking the idea of doing zombie survival IRL because of the modern monotony (11:00) reminded me of "Zom100: Bucket List of the Dead". It's quite philosophical in how modern people are just like zombies going through the same motions each and every single day.
3:17 First of all, This guy plays way too much Project Zomboid. Second, blow up the bridge? With what? Are you implying you have explosives stockpiled somewhere in your house for SHTF?
And if one this not go to his plans like picking a house and only finds the owner of the house with a weapon or doesn't have a boat as people would already took it and drive far away from the land and zombies, he would have shock Pikachu's face.
this guys plays way too much project zomboid, because why should you use a rope ladder, if it would be 10 times easier to just find a more durable and more reliable wooden/metal ladder that almost everyone living in a house owns, and if this genius survival expert manages to break down the stairs (that's if they're wooden) in one day without attracting any zombies by slamming down a slegde hammer all day, then he could also lift up the ladder to the 2nd floor when needed. not to mention if he SOMEHOW finds explosives that are detonetable from afar (which if the military is still functioning then these types of explosives are going to be insanely heavily guarded, so say goodbye to that plan), and he tries to blow up a bridge in f*cking LA, then he'll attract every single zombie to the bridge and he'll have only a few minutes to escape death. And with no one keeping the oil rigs maintainance and routinely checking for any errors, it will just sink into the water after a few years (this has happened several times before) People like him are bound to die in the first hour of the apocalypse😄
The gasoline issue would be a problem for the first while, but survivors would absolutely find ways to refine gasoline again. It would certainly become one of the main issues of conflict between groups as it is monopolized.
Then we'd have a bunch of resurrected dead friends and relatives walking around. Or just people with bites and strange zombie appearance markers. Apart from the rotting, it'd probably be pretty much fine.
Nobody seems to think about how it basically wouldn't even be an apocalypse for very long since after probably a couple weeks all of the zombies would be extremely decomposed and wouldn't be able to walk or probably move anyways
Libraries are full of educational resources that could help you. Not to mention if you get a generator running you may be able to access an online database. The place is literally designed to be comfortable with AC and heats.
And how do you power this though? Gas goes bad if you can find a diseal generator or a propane one your set a solar generator would be best depending on werebyou are
You can make gas and gas substitutes in a variety of very easy ways, first is pure alcohol, very easy to make, second is wood gas, basically free, third is just making diesel, it's literally just refined oil, in theory you would have many engines with a variety of roles to run on these different fuels, there are many other possibilities too, such as "half diesels" that run on peanut oil. Tldr liquid shit that burns is easy to make.
Well, the zombie movies do consider the downsides of ballistic guns (Guns make a loud noise attracting ever more zombies, and sourcing bullets is too difficult when manufacturing and distribution infrastructure shut down) They seem to gravitate too much to melee weapons as their answer, not enough of them seem to consider how archery whether it is long bow, or cross bow, gives you more or less the same range as guns, enabling survivors to take to the rooftops and sniper shoot the hoards of the undead all the same, all well being perfectly silent, and as long as the survivors do get opportunities to retrieve the used arrows/bolts, those arrows/bolts are easily reusable, well producing archery arrows/bolts on your own is significantly easier then producing bullets, making sourcing ammunition easier.
I like that but nobody is talking about how good an airgun would be, like if you have an airgun a lot of lead a airgun pellet molder and a hand air pump your probability of survival is greater also ad a suppressor/silencer for extra quite
I bow hunt, archery isn't something you just pick up and get good with in a short period of time especially trying to hit moving targets it takes months to years most people firing bows without a guard for the first time will flay their forearm and wrists. Crossbow is easier but it has a much longer reload than a compound bow and they aren't that common.
Apparently nobody considers ever stocking up on food, water and supplies, which any responsible adult should do anyway. Im not raiding stores for stuff i already have.
If you have a car, grease it so zombies slide off. I often hear from a couple of friends how they would turn a car into a war machine covered in spikes, that stuff, right? Well, that means you have either a still live zombie on your car OR chunks of flesh that will attract MORE zombies later on. Zombies can't cling to a greased car
bikes require maintenance. not as complex as a car but you still need extra chains and parts for the bike to replace older parts. plus, you are exposed and the amount of energy it takes to get a bike moving is more than the amount of energy it takes to start running.
To keep them in tip-top, factory-fresh condition, running at peak efficiency, you may be right, but how many millions of bikes across the world manage well enough with an occaisional squirt of oil and a strategic whack with a hammer now and then?
a wd 40 is pretty much all you need if the bike is in top tier condition but you need a pump to pump the tire if it goes low or a spare tire if it pops
To counter your point on the inefficiency or biking to running biking is actually more energy efficient as you can stop moving the pedals and glide down hills or on flat areas whereas running requires constant effort and acceleration to maintain speed that really isn’t that fast where bikes go faster for longer now this only applies when the bike is in decent condition as it wears down it will become less efficient and eventually it will become unusable
@@Zero-ei8jn Dead Sea was scary as shit. Hardly anyone I know knows about it, mostly because it’s just a book, never got adapted, and people seem to hate reading. Glad to find so many other knowers/fans of it in the comments here
I remember someone commenting that the outbreak in l4d kinda made sense, everyone was already infected. Only some people were immune(The survivors). And others just had different amount of times when the virus begins to completely takeover(Getting bit accelerates it). So basically, it didn't start with a crowd biting people until it became a problem. Literally a huge chunk of the population started turning within a week/month. Even if the military had the power and resources. How would they respond to their own forces turning randomly at any set time.
Yeah that and the fact that Green Flu mutates (according to the comic) DAILY which makes it impossible for any medical researchers to develop a cure. Not to mention the special infected like tanks that could wipe out a whole crowd in minutes.
3:50 All the food in all the stores will go bad very, VERY fast. Like, all refrigerated food will begin rotting in a couple days. Go look up the story of the Mexia TX supermarket biohazard.
that the US government wouldn't have their thumbs up their assess when dealing with zombies, unless you make the zombie stupidly OP most governments would easily handle them.
I do think northern Scandinavia or somewhere in eastern siberia might be the best places to survive an apocalypse since they are sparsly populated and full of game fresh water mountain streams and cold springs plus completely covered in trees and shruberries so forraging for berries and mushrooms and stuff will be quite easy to get aswell. The only major downside is winter BUT i think if you manage to find a log cabin with some firestove you should be alright.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b Luckily i know all of that since i live in a rural area of northern Sweden so i got experience in all way shapes and forms of hunting and forragining in my local eco system. So i know which shrooms are poisionous and which are fine too eat, i know which berries are fine too eat, got alot of experience fishing with net and rods. Also got experience of hunting/drying meats the question about getting enough salt too dry the meat is though but probably solveable. we also happen to have a cabin in the woods with a cold cellar or whatever its called in english. Its about 250 km from where i live so it will take a while to get there definantly but with a bike and or car (since its sparsley populated you would most likely be fine getting away with) shouldnt be too much trouble.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b i love your "how are you going to get there" now i know I'm not OP but it's really rather simple for about 50 million of us. step one: wake up. done! you're here! wahoo! Finding a "log cabin with some firestove" shouldn't be too hard, either. There's about a million and a half (actual statistics) of households in Norway alone that have fireplaces/places to burn wood in their house, and that's not counting cabins (of which there are about half a million in Norway alone), many (if not most) of which are in the mountains. Sure, you'd need to get to the mountains, but there's plenty people who live there already. If you already live in a cold place like this (like most of the people surviving in places like this) you'll be better equipped at dealing with it simply from exposure. We know how to dress, to ski, to traverse snow and cold - we learn to dig snow shelters in school - I've personally had courses on edible plants (and how to FIND edible plants!) interspersed with other education from as early as first grade. I'm by no means a wilderness expert and would probably die within a week (disabled! yay!), but there are plenty of people who would be able to get by long enough, I think. I think it's also important to remember, when we're sitting here discussing things like these and planning out what we would do, we're trying to find ways to make things work. It's a puzzle, a game, a way to put knowledge to the test. I, for one, enjoy thinking of all the ways A person (not 'me' person, or 'any' person, or 'every' person) could survive, should they have the right tools and knowledge. I'm also a fan of survival stories as a storytelling tool - it's a very literal way of learning to work with a character's knowledge :)
0:16 they provide absolutely no armor tho. They’re heavy and hard to carry when you need to, wich will be a lot because safe biking terrains will be destroyed. And they’re so slow. Also may I suggest The Zombie Survival Guide? Great book.
The bloody tampons caught me off guard but oh man thats hilariously brilliant😂😂 will need to try that if there ever is a thing as inconcievable as a zombie apocalypse lmao😂
I haven’t fully watched the video so someone might’ve brought this up but something no one ever considers is that zombies are dead so their heart isn’t working anymore. Just go to a really cold place and take shelter there, but not Antarctica. To cold. The zombies hearts are inactive so it isn’t pumping out warm blood, they’ll just freeze to death almost instantly.
Uhm biology? If their hearts don't work they'd also be dead in summer or wherever. Main point of blood is not to keep you warm, it's to keep you alive. You can't survive without a heart in a heated room.
If we would talk about a "realistic" zombie apocalypse, since that seems to be the idea of the video, the zombies would not be dead, dead zombies in the real world would not be a problem since they would be unable to perform any actions after a short time. A "realistic" zombie apocalypse would be 28days/weeks zombies, they are still alive, they are still "humans" they are simply infected with a virus (Rage-virus). Now, there could be "dead zombies" but like I said they would not require you to go anywhere since they would simply drop dead after a while....they would have no energy to perform any actions if body functions stop working (heart stops etc.)
The problem going into remote places like islands is that everyone would have the same idea Good luck finding an actual boat, And if you do find one. Pray that the island you are going to is not already filled with bad people or zombies
Waste-disposal systems. Once they begin to fail, you are doomed, if you live in a city, or almost any concentration of humans....... Also, proper waste disposal and correct placement and managament of "toillet"-areas is usally not considerated in almost any show or book adressing the topic of an apocalypse. Yeah! Shelter, heat, water, food and security are esential, but will be of no use if yourself contaminate your water-source or your partymembers by not managing in an adecuate way your depositions (we have gotten used to see them disapear just by fushing the toilet and have NO idea of how much even a small group can generate with enough time). Also the smell can atract predators (zombies/animals/humans), if not correctly managed..... Finally, the idea of just going casually alone to a isolated place, to do your "buisnness", putting yourself in risk is simply ridiculous. Encamped survivors would probably use buckets or similar, in some tent or cabinet in the same camp, and dispose of the resulting waste several times a day, in company of an armed group........ I know, I know, waste disposal is not as glamorous as fighting zombies, or searching for food or weapons, but on long term, it is of the outmost importance........
I mean i think ir sucks as well, think about it, why do people never have their gun when they are taking a shit, even if it is just breaking into a grocery bathroom and leaging a mess.
a zombie apocylpse wouldn't survive for more than 6 months. best case scenario: zombies don't have any water logistics to rely on, quickly chopping down their population and ending the issue within a week mid case scenario: zombies would decompose. unless the virus somehow hijacks the immune system, all zombies would be super prone to decomposition, it'd come to a point where their bits and pieces just fall off and they die randomly, this would probably happen within 3 months. this is supported by the fact that all zombie illustrations are always already half decomposed. worst case scenario: they run out of food. assuming they know how to eat, their primary food source would be other zombies. eating their own would just cut their numbers down. which would be a steady process of months
Not just zombies, but any emergency or survival situation: People expect to get superpower when it is a matter of live and dead. You can't jog a mile, but when zombies are after you, you think you can run 5 miles easy. But the reality is your ability drops hard when it counts. Most people wouldn't be able to add 2 plus 2 together when their child's life is on the line. Animal brain takes over, you freeze up or scatter into a random direction. When something heavy drops onto your 5 year old and they are pinned down the parent would run head first into a wall 10 feet away and knock themself out.
You forgot about one thing, adrenaline and adaptability, I have been in situations before where I had to survive and I pulled it off, and I'm a lazy fucker, but when it counted I pulled thru, most people would surprise you. I think if someone had a panic attack they would mess up because they are in a heightened state.
You watch way too many kids cartoons if you think that's how people actually behave in life or death situations. No, people are not going to run head-first into a wall and knock themselves out. Sure there are situations of extremely, exponentially stupid people doing stupid things while stressed and hurting themselves as a result, but that is a rare case and most definitely not the majority. "Scattering in a random direction" is not even an instinct that animals have except for maybe spiders, which most people are not spiders (and spiders only run in random directions because they can't see well). You'll never find an animal running in a random direction when frightened. Just like other animals, humans will run, fight, make threats, etc, toward a threat, and will experience an increase in adrenaline which makes them significantly stronger and able to act quicker. This applies to any emergency situation. Freezing up is a response that some people have, but they grow out of it after exposure to multiple threats over time. And freezing is done under specific circumstances, otherwise they would behave as normal and run or fight.
Fuxk off, in an emergency people become morons. This is why NO ONE ever does the hero ahit they always imagine they will do when they talk with friends.
@HellhoundsHunt jumping spiders don't scatter in random directions, the only spider not to because they're much smarter and rely on their vision. Sorry, I'm just a spidey nerd. Everything else is 100% spot on and I completely agree.
Suppressors! Use suppressors on your guns, find suppressors, or make one. Even if you're using ammo that isn't subsonic, the crack of the shot through the air won't give a clear indication of where you are to zombies
@@caiuscosades1791 You can only make arrows if you can find a stick/branch straight enough to not veer when you shoot it. In any case, something is better than nothing. I'd personally use spears. It doesn't need to be straight or aerodynamic to do the maximum amount of damage as melee. All you need is a stick and a relatively sharp rock.
@@Whatthefudgecookie true, but I do have a pretty decent compound bow with a 35lb draw. Can't go wrong with a design that's been with us for 70 thousand years.
It's very easy to get little cuts on your skin, and that can easily lead to infection without correct treatment (which a lot of people won't have access to in this situation, because they wouldn't have access to hospitals, supplies and/or knowledge to deal with it), which could lead to an amputation of a limb (which, as the guy below this comment said, you probably wouldn't be able to do that in a safe way if you weren't able to treat the infection) or death
An amputation makes it worse because nobody is going to have a proper sanitized place for amputation none to less how to do one or wrap up the chopped part. Depending where the amputation is the person is cooked. And if the virus is airborne forget it. Also the pain . . . One loud noise and the team is also cooked.
As a professional landscaper: In regards to the mowed lawns: Short grasses and lawncare arose as a safety precaution against hidden assailants. Tall grass hides. As for how to trim it. A simple scythe was the first "lawnmower"
Women will likely just go back to using cloths or whatever they can find that is absorbent. The main issue is keeping your hygiene up, so you will need water to clean your clothes and yourself. Of course, cramps will be an issue, but I do think that most will eventually get used to the routine.
@@honestgenz4413 Yes thats a good solution however it will remain difficult and im also afraid groups will be less likely of accepting young women (especially men) because this is another problem (risk) for them. Besides the cramps being one thing, most women also have migrains which makes them extra vulnerable. Ah im happy the zombie apocalypse is just fiction 😊
Periods would be less of an issue than most people think because when a woman is under great amounts of stress, her body absorbs the extra blood that usually makes up the period.
If it's hot in the summer, a zombie will rot in a few days. If it's in the winter, they'll freeze.
Water also shortens the time for flesh to rot
@@Lil_Polonez Welp, I’m screwed (British isles).
In the winter, if they get frostbite, their limbs will fall off, making it harder to catch you
@@yulb.allwright I meant, that it makes zombies rot faster, when they are on water, or under any moisture
@@Lil_Polonez Ah gotcha.
No one seems to consider how zombies would not have enough jaw strength to pierce the skin and muscles of humans to eat them if their own muscles are rotting away. Over time their jaws would weaken and they would not be able to close their mouths.
There aren’t any rules for zombies besides whatever universe or writer makes them. If they write that the jaws are strong enough, that’s how it is. ZOMBIES DONT EXIST. So we don’t know HOW they would act or decompose
@@jaycemcqueen306 but we do know how human beings decompose and zombies used to be humans.
@@The_Ninja_Treein the zombie survival guide by max brooks, his version of zombies can take several years to die from decomposition due to all organisms, even nearly all bacteria and microbes having an instinctual aversion and avoidance of the virus that causes zombies and the tissue infected with it.
Their decomposition is slowed even more when they freeze every winter.
Meaning a zombie could reinfect a previously believed to be clear area decades after when someone steps into a pond and cuts their foot on a zombies jaw.
It's also important to note that living humans actually have a limiter on how much of their strength they can use except in high stress, adrenaline situations, since in normal situations it could only hurt you.
Even someone with very little muscle could theoretically generate a lot of force with it.
In some works of fiction zombies very evidently have this limiter removed, (sometimes having more strength than should be theoretically possible) plus they never get tired, they will do the same action at the same strength and force, until that muscle disintegrates.
Decomposition would still inevitably incapacitate and kill all zombies, but it'd take longer than you'd think.
It depends on the zombie
No aspect of zombies makes biological sense. Muscles need ATP, calcium, etc to operate. That's why we create a suspension of disbelief.
The only remotely accurate take is something like the rage zombies/infected of "28 Days Later."
A lot of people would get heart attack, seizure or die from shock of seeing literal corpses rise and eat people.
Plus, the amount of crazy running through everyone 😅 in a book I'm writing literally is crazy in some way or has some kinda weird ass coping mechanism
@@timfrank7461 is there any chance you'll ever publish it? I'd love to know c:
@@timfrank7461can you name a character Mr Tickles?
@@shrekhoodieguy5449 I second this
And we've also seen during the 'demic that some people would run outside and get bitten because they would refuse to believe the zombies were zombies.
Logically speaking if a perfectly healthy human cant break out a grave, no way in hell a pile of rotting flesh could.
Never even thought about this. Kudos
Yes, but this probably wont be the reason for zombies in the real world. Most likely a infection disease or something similar. Also if a zombie did come out I feel like someone would've killed it before it became a problem or the military would've demolished zombies before it became an apocalypse.
Modern TV shows have revamped the traditional zombie narrative and did away with the zombies being graveyard corpses reanimated through supernatural forces trope and instead attribute it to an infection or viral pathogen as a result of which eliminated the logistical challenge of 'corpses breaking free from graves'
@@nand87the next logical step may be to forgo the undead part altogether, and return to good old fashioned ghouls
Like in “I am Legend” they were called vampires instead of zombies, but functionally the story was the same as any other zombie apocalypse story (except the book made them intelligent)
in most fiction only the currently living are infected so people already dead usually don't reanimate. and if they do, just remember it's just that - fiction
Rain is usually the best time to move, especially for the sound-sensitive zombies. It’s hazy, the rain mutes out noises, the rain will clean zombie dirt off surfaces. It’s the ideal time to move. But they always think the best time to move is at night when it’s essentially the worst. It’s quiet, so any noise can startle a zombie you can’t see because of the lack of light
Rain would also cover your tracks, and basically wash away any of your scent for the especially smell oriented zombies.
Also sound carries further at night because of how still it is which means lower ambient noise, and cooler air is more dense which carries sound better and bends the waves back towards the ground which amplifies them. Sure you might be harder to see (especially if you're avoiding hostile humans since we rely heavily on sight), but if you move through underbrush, step on a twig, etc, it's going to carry a lot further than in the day
Youd need a way to remain warm, though. As a survivalist and cyclist, the rain even in warm conditions is surprisingly cold. Youd want some form of garbage bag to cover yourself with to repel water while also making sure its breatheable enough to not sweat and get too cold from the sweat.
I think daytime would be quiet as well as night.
@@toughbutsweet1Doesnt really change much except you and the zombie can clearly see each other than the other just blindly following sound or following youe smell
Tip: when everyone is fighting at the grocery store for food and water; schools and offices will most likely be abandoned. These places usually have bottled water and food.
you gotta consider all the parents going to the schools to save their kids, and a bunch of roads near those schools are gonna be the first ones to get blocked with abandoned cars
@mikadosannoji553 it's mentioned in the video that cars will be useless anyway.
@@mikadosannoji553 not during the summer; Plus schools in The US are usually stocked in food for up to 3 months. In case of a catastrophe. The governments uses schools as temporary disaster shelters, that are meant to be temporary while things go back to normal or they need to relocate people else where.
All the thumbs uppers will live days longer thanks to this man in the coming zombie apocalypse.
@@ronburgundy8458 I’ll just let the ravenous undead know to wait until summer to attack
Diabetic here. When I first got diagnosed at age 20, I shed actual tears at the thought of how hard it would be for me to survive in a zombie apocalypse.
Kidney failure…, yeah we’re not making it. 🥲
@@yulb.allwright but that does make us magnificent wild cards.
same here, the realization broke my heart
@@ivan8285does not mean we cannot try. See you at the pharmacy, bestie.
Yeah, your best hope to last long-term would be to both find someone with a compatible blood type and constantly drain your blood to receive healthier blood, on top of dieting when food is scarce.. All without getting an infection (be it a zombie or generic infection). Sounds fun, right?
If the Zombie Virus can't infect non-humans, then a LOT of animals will benefit greatly from the Zombie Apocalypse. Not just predatory animals like wolves, cougars, bears, and crocodiles, but also omnivores like raccoons and ESPECIALLY pigs.
30-50 feral hogs could easily do a number on a horde of zombies.
HOGS??
Pigs will shred anything they see to be mildly appealing to bits.
I think the zombies would still go after them just to eat (think The Walking Dead, zombies still went after and ate the animals but they didn't turn) so the pack of hogs could get overrun, depending on the horde size. The hogs would also have a hard time getting to the brains to actually stop the zombies
@@cynicalnightmare1108isn’t it also implied that zombie flesh is lethal to non-humans anyway in some works?
Yeah, but I don't think people have heard of the Chronic wasting disease (zombie dear disease) is affecting deer and could affect cows, moose, elk, etc. It's effecting animals first.
@lyokianhitchhiker They are still dead bodies, so yeah any thought out zombie story shouldnt forget the deadly diseses we already have.
I was kinda sleepy... until the zombie mosquitoes
I hate mosquitoes even more now.
There are zombie ants so why not zombie mosquitoes
@@lorddouchbag3494Yea zombie ants exist
@@SkaChaos973 yep
It can be difficult to happen depending on what causes zombie apocalypse, bacteria or virus there is the barrier of species and it's not easy to break it.
No one considers how effective a bear hunting suit would be in a zombie apocalypse.
I heard the same about shark suits
zom100 did, but for shark suits. Great movie ngl
@@almogxchq5282both series and movie are good
@@almogxchq5282 Shark suits would be ass in a Zombie Apocalypse lol. I'm not entirely certain about the Bear Suit but your mobility is especially cooked while wearing both.
@@EyeofKoruptionshark suits weigh like 200 pounds minimum, good luck having the stamina to wear that all day
If the zombies have a bite force similar to a living human, just a few extra layers of clothing and a motorcycle helmet is all you need
I’ve worked in nursing homes, specifically memory care, I’ve been but by a senile man who didn’t know what was going on, hurt like hell, but the scrubs I wore prevented the breaking of skin (still had a nasty bruise, but no risk of infection)
No one considers there will be zombie children. I know a lot of people who would be uncomfortable shooting them.
Id be more concerned about the damn anklebiters being below my reach at 1.93m tall.
That was probably the single best scene in The Walking Dead - the first group finds out that the second group had been holding zombified friends and family in the barn in the hopes of waiting for a cure.
The first group overpowers the second and releases the zombies to kill them
But one of them turns out to be the 12-year-old girl who’d been separated from them and who they’d been looking for in case she was alive.
How about the scene in Telltales The Walking Dead. Where you found the starved child in the attic...
I've not seen the walking dead
I didn't know they had a scene like this
@@northumbriabushcraft1208 it's the game tell tales the walking dead
You just wanted to talk about the problem with being a Giant from Skyrim didn't you?
Poor eyesight is really overlooked. It can be a huge disadvantage and hinderance to survival.
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Yeah that's one thing I've always been afraid of with any kind of apocalyptic scenario.. can't even see my hand in front of my face :/ I'd be so screwed if my glasses broke. I mean I'd also be screwed in my daily life if they broke since I don't have hundreds sitting around to buy a new pair but at least people might help me call a cab or something
I'm screwed then
It could be far worse. Imagine no eyesight.
@@chihauhaunSAME BRO
What everyone seems to be missing is this:
It’s the apocalypse. There is about a 99.9% chance that you won’t be one of the cool survivors fighting for their lives, you’ll most likely die on day 1. As does nearly everyone else.
I hate that this is right
FINALLY, someone else is saying this.
if people aren't prepared then they'll die
@@maryjean-y2o And if people are prepared, they will still die.
If I don't get infected by the initial disease then I would have a pretty good chance at survival, I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, I have livestock and crops, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and a bunch of heavy equipment and build a 40 foot wall around my farm with a mote, I would have all my family there to help and I could probably get the Amish that live nearby to help as well, they're great builders and they even have their own lumber yard and sheet metal factory, I would also use the heavy equipment to clear everything outside of the wall for about a mile, none of it would even really be difficult, the only thing that would be difficult is making boilers and turbines to generate my own electricity
im surprised nobody has mentioned the fact that within days of a mere mention of a zombie apocalypse other countries would just nuke the affected area to hell lmao
Bad idea. The only zombies that are gonna get killed are those caught in the explosion, all the others won't be affected by all the radiation and diseases because they are undead. You will just make zombies more dangerous by making their bodies radioactive and the conditions for humanity's survival will get worse due to all the nuclear wastelands that destroyed every possibly supply, resource or farming areas.
EXACTALY. unless zombies just suddenly appeared in every single corner of the world. the zombies wouldnt stand a chance.
I mean that's what happened to Racoon City from Resident Evil.
I read a book in my schools library that said the zombies weren’t truly affected by the nukes😊
I may remember you of the fact that Nukes are not only hotter than the sun but also explode at light speed. I dunno which book actually knows about Real-Life Human Zombies not dying to the most devastating weapon known to man, but if they’re surviving that, we’re fucked
My favorite thing that I ask people that they never consider is. "What do you think happens to the person who encounters the first zombie and kills it? I bet they go to jail, and no one ever finds out."
That assumes only one person gets infected and turns into a zombie and that they're killed before infecting anyone else.
Look at how fast covid spread before anyone even knew what it was. In nearly every zombie virus story, the virus doesn't immediately kill the host, it makes them sick for a period of time before they die. Most likely, Patient Zero would have plenty of time to spread the virus into the population before dying and reanimating, which means by the time the zombie virus is even isolated and identified, millions of people could be infected and be potential zombies when they die.
I think if a zombie "apocalypse" happened, I think it be more of the scene in Invader Zim where the mall gets swarmed with zombies, but it turns out they are too brain-dead for aggression and instead just waddle around groaning completely harmless.
Yeah, truly it is, how smart are the zombies? Frogs, Toads, and Lizards are predators, yet watch any feeding video and you can see how stupid they are. Bears can open some doors (would need opposable thumbs for round doorknobs) and trashcans and stuff. So, they'll either be smart enough where they will eventually figure out you're traps, or how to get in somewhere, or they won't really be able to do much.
Let's say you got infected with a zombie virus or fungal infection like in the last of us or dying light, the disease would eventually mutate to make zombies more violent if they weren't all wiped out along with the virus. It would be like covid but the infected get more violent and aggressive to spread by saliva and blood.
@@BobBob-vy9dszombies are usually pretty dumb but still incredibly hostile and probably even starved by instinct.
If they are smart, they are wasting to much energy.
If they are stupid, they need a master or could never get you.
If it is anything like covid, their barks (or groans I guess) would be way worse than their bites.
I think a lot of people overlook libraries since you could possibly look for survival books like how to farm your own food, how to build a proper shelter, how to make homemade weapons properly, how to purify water, or even how to generate your own electricity and such
That's a good point!
Plus just having something for entertainment while you hide in your base
Lucky I already know how to do all of that, except I would still need to study more on how to make boilers and turbines to generate my own electricity, but I live on a farm so I already have crops and a garden and livestock, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and I would take a bunch of heavy equipment and the diesel and gas tanks they have and build a 40 foot concrete wall around the farm with a mote, I would have all my family there to help and I would try and get the Amish that live close by to help, they're great friends with my grandpa and I would assume they would want a fortress to live in and be safe plus they're the fastest and most skilled builders I've ever seen
If you played project zomboid, Library is the first place you loot. Followed by a school, so you can get the guns there.
Jesus christ 🤣
Tip: While everyone will have stripped the grocery store shelves clean of easily recognizable food and water, the Pet aisle will be untouched. Canned and also bagged Cat/Dog food is essentially astronaut food. It is packed with protein, vitamins and minerals. It may not smell, or taste appealing, but it will keep you ALIVE when food is scarce, and because no one thinks to grab pet food, it'll be the last stuff on store shelves. You can mix it in to other foods, or pour a bowl of dry with milk and pretend it's cereal.
What are you talking about? Some of those dog foods smell GREAT. I would've tried them if they didn't say "not meant for human consumption".
Also they have a much longer shelf life than most human foods
Pet food also has to be edible to people due to it being historically consumed by people low in money
Only problem I see there is other people would have that idea too. Same with vet clinics, medication for animals works for humans too, also you fogot people who have pets that they love, them aisles are raided man.
That's all good but what about your gag reflex. In trying to eat pet food a person could puke and reduce the water that's in their body. Vomiting could be deadly.
" Woah, buying the 12 pack of condoms, huh? someone's getting lucky! "
" wha? oh, no. This is for the 'zombie apocalypse preparation ' sort of thing. "
“someone’s getting lucky! “
“just ring me up man”
We always see zombies eat…we never see them poop.
Imagine zombies walking around with poop hanging in their pants
I've seen zombies throw up in L4D games.
Yeah they’re always eating but would their digestive system even work?
@@liambernard6972 I know, right?
It's a major point in the game Days Gone that zombies do indeed poop - which leads some scientists to the horrible realization that the zombies have been foraging. They're never going to starve off.
the last of us had its flaws, but i liked how they addressed the "immaculate lawns" bit. like yeah, someone was mowing the lawns! fucking bill!!!
😂
A scythe was the first lawnmower.
Short lawns arose as a defense strategy because tall grass hides
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Druid and Professional Landscaper
@@druid_zephyrusWasn’t it more just because rich people wanted to show off how they had so much land they didn’t even have to use it for any other purpose than decoration?
@DanDanDoe
The first rich people were Lords and Lady's and Barons and Dukes and Governors.
The _"kingdom"_ 15 miles across the stream was basically a large town with farms for 5 miles and the lawn surrounded the "castle". Whether that _castle_ was actually a castle.
Once the "kingdom" was large enough *_then_* is when you get those same Lords Ladies etc spending their wealth to one up each other. Because their neighbor wasn't going to go to war against them. But they still needed to _be better_
That's when you start seeing landscaped fruit orchards instead of open short grass
@druid_zephyrus But grasslands were mainly just pastures. It wasn't kept short because enemies might hide in taller grass, it was kept short because the grass was food for cattle. Send some sheep or goats out and it'll be short in no time. No need to send out folks with scythes just to keep grass short. I'd say the lack of hiding spots in short grass was just an added benefit of feeding your cattle. Trees near the town were often cut because of defence though. The manicured lawns were more recent, indeed when defence became less important and the wealthy showed off their riches as decorative gardens.
I mentioned this once before but, the moment the power goes out, some people for the first time will get to truly see the night sky as our ancestors did before all the light pollution, it's one of the major silver linings to any sort of apocalypses really, and to those that have seen the nights without an ounce of light pollution know exactly what I mean here
thats something i really wish i could experience someday
Oh lord
I've experienced this a handful of times living down south as a child, during Hurricanes like Katrina where everything was down, but then other nights it was Pitch Fû¢king Black when the clouds were covering the stars too... I still vividly remember that type of darkness outside, felt like one of those dreams where you're having trouble opening your eyes for no reason.
I forget some people have never seen the night sky, that’s so bizarre to me
I hope we one day figure out a way to keep the lights on while still seeing it.
I'd love to be able to look at the night sky, but street lights say NOOoooo..
During the beginning of the apocalypse, zombies won’t be the only thing to worry about. Cars flying off the roads, aircrafts falling from the sky, etc. The outside environment will be a huge threat.
There could also be a chance that as the apocalypse goes on, survivors could go feral.
Yeah this is shown in World War Z with traffic pileups and airliners going down
this make me laugh because it suggest that the second the apocalypse starts all airplanes and helicopters just fall down like rocks
Survivors going feral? You won't need an apocalypse for that. Consider: The year is 2020. Many dozens of people are at your local grocery or department store. There are only 2 bottles of water and 1 roll of toilet paper left on the shelf.
Years ago, I remember one Christmas, when Cabbage Patch dolls were all the rage. I also remember a few people were actually shot because they grabbed the last doll and refused to part with it.
@@ryszakowyIkr? And so many people upvoted it too. All of them 100% the first ones to die.
@@ryszakowysome of em probably would because of infected passengers on board mauling everyone to death
The worst part about glasses isn't that you never stop needing them. It's that no matter how well you take care of them, they'll become useless over time as your eyes get worse and worse.
Plenty of time to loot the right set...
@@The_Custos But unfortunately he's right because even if you loot the right set overtime your eyes get fucked and with no one being able to measure your eye sight properly and worst of all build a new pair of glasses you're effectively counting your days until you can't see shit. Even if you survive and your area gets mostly clear having bad eye sight is a death sentence because eventually you wont be able to scout for supplies or tell danger until you get close enough where it becomes a big problem.
Also using the premade glasses is the worst thing you can do because it fucks up your eyes even more especially if you have different dioptries.
@@Rhyhmx still over playing it. Mine have been stable for over ten years. A timeline like that puts it into ten years later territory, and beyond standard zed concerns of do I survive the week?
@@The_Custos
I had a classmate who had really bad eyes and got worse very rapidly to the point where he needed a new pair of glasses every other year and it stabilized more or less when he was around 17.
I'd say generally you're right that for most people by the time their eye sight would become unusable the zombies would've been long dead with a pretty good chance that there are people who make can make replacement glasses even if they aren't perfect.
Biggest issue is always losing the pair because just finding a replacement would be a nightmare and most off the shelf glasses are garbage and will ruin your eyes very quickly if they're already bad to begin with.
@@The_Custos You're right although I don't think it's "I survive the week" sceneraio because depending on the damage already done and how many more infected will emerge as a result of mosquito infection and what not can drag it out quite a bit longer.
The bigger issue is the aftermath, but I do agree with you that unless the person loses their glasses or the damage is irrepairable they most likely either die or get a new pair before the current one becomes too weak for their eyes.
No one seems to consider covering their whole body with some sort of armor that could protect from bites. Why not just 3d-print it, for instance? It doesn't have to be bulletproof, just biteproof is enough and plastic would be easier to carry. If designed properly, it would protect from bites even if a person faints. And the same person could be still shot in case if they still become a zombie with this armor on.
My sister survived a dog attack with minimal injury as a kid because she was wearing a jacket since it was fall and it tried to grab her arm. It still hurt and she started to cry, but it wasn't a serious injury and I don't remember if it even drew blood. You don't really need armor specifically, just a decent buffer of clothing. Human teeth isn't nearly as sharp as animal teeth anyway. Plastic would be good as a bite deterrent, but you have to account for joints being exposed for mobility
In prison, guys make armer out of layered newspaper when they think there's a hit out.
I know for a fact that a shank will not penetrate the Detroit Free Press Sunday edition.
just get a suit for dog training :) less likely to break, easier to carry (can be rolled up and stored away), its already bite proof and most importantly- they already exist. Your biggest worry with anything 3D printed or made from plastic is electricity. When shit hits the fan, you likley wont have time to make a "suit of armor" nor will you be able to order one online and have it shipped to you. Better to just get one of those suits and have it just in case if you trust that strategy and wanna go along with it lol
The walking dead comic did have the plastic looking armor for one of the community and one guy even prove it's biteproof by walking into a group of zombie wearing armor.
not sure about the dog training suit how easy it is to find, but im sure those boothlegs football mascots fursuits can be of use to admit to these situations 😅
If zombies are just walking gangrenous bodies then really depending on where you live the apocalypse should only last about a decade, but even before then most of the zombies would be imobile or Atleast damaged to the point of being next to no problem.
The bigger concern would be the animals eating them
Like earlier, mosquitos might just be the end for all of us.
Even if the animals aren't infected by the zombies they eat, they will breed and multiply due to the new food source. Wild pigs would likely take over the world, and they are a lot faster and smarter than zombies.
@@vel5094 But in some zombie stories, animals don't seem to be able to be infected. It's more like a "human disease" of some kind.
So maybe animals could be allies sort of. A bunch of hogs, bears, wolves or other could easily do fatal damage to many zombies. If they aren't too scared of them or repelled by the horrible smell of rotting corpses.
@@blackharmonics4518 Mosquitos don't need to be infected themselves to infect others. Simply biting a zombie then biting a live human would be enough to spread the virus. Same with ticks.
A decade ? Rotting flesh means zombies wouldn't be able to run in a few weeks
How awful and debilitating many injuries can be. Especially without trained professionals treating you.
Children in the apocalypse with dads who look at their scratched knees saying "Yep, we will need to chop the whole leg off" won't be joking.
Oh yeah, definitely
I think when most of us think "hell yeah, zombie apocalypse!" We are thinking more about the looting and less about the killing.
Atleast that's me.
Im thinking more about clapping cheeks
Also, no work, taxes and police
Id want a makeshift weapon but just for cool points.
For me, the whole murder thing wouldn't be too big of a deal. It's just the protection that I would be REALLY worried about.
Why would you want to loot? Are you a psychopath?
They don't consider that "zombie" could just be a metaphor for some other virus or sickness that could cause mutations and turn people into cannibalistic monsters. Think of the movie "I am Legend" as an example. They wouldn't necessarily have to be dead. They could still retain their physical abilities or even gain superhuman ones.
They couldn't come out in the day light...thats more vampire than zombie to me...
@@billzco6137 You're missing the point. I used that as an example, but it could be any type of genetic mutation that would cause people or animals to become aggressively violent. They wouldn't have to be undead. Like the zombie deer disease that's happening now. They aren't literally zombies, but they call it that metaphorically.
"Francis these are not a Vampire!"
@@1108chuck 28 Days/Weeks Later is exactly that concept - they're not the walking dead, per se, they're just extremely enraged all the time which makes them act very zombie-like. Theoretically, if a cure for the "rage virus" was found and administered to the infected, then they would become normal people again (just, you know, saddled with _tons_ of PTSD) and by extension all of the ways a normal person can be stopped or killed also apply to them.
Also, the thing about drinking from a lake, amoebas. Be unlucky and drink from the wrong lake, and zombies won't be the only one eating on your brains.
Edit:Oh yeah, and as for people with minor "disabilities" such as people who need glasses, people with intrauterine devices, people with screws in their legs to heal broken bones, yeah, most of them are going to die, either through infections or eaten by zombies. In a world without antibiotics, most injuries, even minor ones, will probably lead to infection and death.
Very minor injuries leading to death is a bit of a myth. Butchers somehow survive small cuts. Scouts survive camping and small injuries, martial artists and boxers survive cuts and bashes, builders survive hammer or nail injuries, hunters survive scratches, pokes and tears. I survived stepping on broken glass after a flood (no infection).
Nobody seems to consider that when society falls, key workers in society, the backbones of society and other niche professions (doctors, farmers, carpenters, architects, bricklayers, mechanics, metalworkers, electricians, gunsmiths, etc.) would likely be hoarded by other humans and kept like slave labour for communities. The resource war on the human front doesn't end at materials, knowledge and therefore people, are a resource too.
Or that when nuclear power plants go to shit because no one is taking care of them will cause extreme radiation spikes and possibly cause MAJOR climate change which means if the zombies,survivors,feral animals, lack of food, or sickness doesn’t kill you then the radiation and vicious changing climate sure will
We have ample evidence of highly developed civilizations actually failing. Architecs and knowledge-based Jobs are the _least_ important in societies actually collapsing in on themselves, when there is truly not enough food to go around.
Also, 'Zombies' are incapable of collapsing a modern-day civilization.
Ok Negan with the people are a resource quote😂
ironically it'd be the opposite, they'd be the ones running things, they'd be the valuable one, no smart leader would even consider killing someone who is a key worker in society like you mentioned, unless its for something extreme, like treason or something
The “infected” types of zombies would die of dehydration within 24 hours.
Unless they have enough clarity of mind to drink from puddles, lakes, or rivers.
If they do that they're gonna be so sick they won't see it coming,and they'll eventually die because they won't be able to heal from what they've contracted
This is the most genius answer of all. Hats off to you!
I didn't know you could die of dehydration so quickly. I thought you could live for a few days without something to drink.
Given what we seen in movies/games where they basically go feral though, I doubt they'd have the clarity to think about drinking water
@@Amayawolf_01 the rule of 3's. a human can survive 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without oxygen. We often get alot of water from the foods we eat or other drinks, which is why you wont see people die who dont like to drink it (although there are usually side effects.) But if youre actually deprived of water completely, youll become delerious and die pretty quickly
edit: however being sick can make you dehydrated much faster. Sweating, vomiting, diarreah, anything like that increase the amount of water youre losing and can defiently shorten the time you have to survive. So while im not sure 24 hours would kill you without water, if youre extremley sick and are running a high fever, it just might (if that fever doesnt kill you first)
The actual stages of decomposition after death. After a few hours, the zombies would stiffen up and fall to the ground. Once that happens, the zombies wouldn’t realistically be able to infect anyone, unless someone has a cut and rubs zombie remains on it. After a few more hours, rigor mortis would go away, at which point their muscles would begin to soften up again. 1-3 days after death, their internal organs would completely decompose, and after a few more days they would start to bloat up. Afterwards, they would just start to liquefy.
What you’d really have to look out for are zombie flies or other insects, which would eat away at the zombies and infect others. So essentially, what you’d really need for a zombie apocalypse is a safe place to wait out a few days or weeks in, a tolerance for gore, and a beekeeping suit. Then you’d move to an isolated place and live out the rest of your life. The world would probably be livable again in a few years, maybe a decade or two at worst.
That assumes the normal decomposition stages wouldn't be hindered or blocked by the infection. The majority of decomposition is the result of microorganisms using the body for food, but what if the zombie virus killed or subsumed those microorganisms?
No one seems to consider how every zombie could just be a really good method actor in a humongous post apocalyptic set because the likeliness of a zombie apocalypse or zombies in general is so unrealistic and unlikely.
Someone should animate this because that sounds funny
This is the funniest of the real comments.
There was an ad or something I saw like this. A guy was doomsday prepper and saw a zombie apocalypse outside. He then gets equipped, goes outside and kills a bunch of zombies. After killing a lot of them it pans to the film crew just looking at him like "😮".
2:00 Crazy Dave, of course.
I'm planning to write a zombie book and I did something new ( at least as far as I know )
I gave zombies a purpose for eating flesh, I've played many videogames and watched many movies but none of them even bothered to explain why do zombies eat the living while they don't need to do it, they're already dead they don't need food
In my book, consuming flesh causes some kind of mutation. The mutation makes them more intelligent, increases their physical strength, makes them move faster and has a small chance to give them special abilities
Edit: My zombies grow sharp bones from the tip of the fingers, they use their claws to rip the victim's flesh.This concept is not really mine an Irish writer called Darren Shan has already used it in his book series called ZomB but there are differences.
1: Similar to Wolverine in Marvel comics, my zombies can hide their claws in their hands when there's nothing to eat and pull them out once it's time to eat
2: Unlike Darren Shan's zombies, my version of zombies don't have bones on the tip of their toes, it's only their fingers
3: The claws of my zombies is not strong enough to Pierce through woods or bricks
That sounds really interesting!
That's literally the premise of the return of the living dead series. Eating brains increases their intelligence.
@@BrandonOfJapan Correction: It gets rid of the pain of rotting alive.
I mean, do you really need a explanation? There is 2 very simple and logical reasons why they eat, nr.1 just because they are dead does not mean they dont require a energy source (obviously if we are talking about "zombies" that are literally skeletons it would not make sense) but also most zombies in main stream movies are not even dead, at worst slightly brain dead, so they eat what they see to get energy.
Second reason, it could be a side effect of the virus, the virus makes them bite people to spread the virus...now there might be no moment where the virus tells them to move on to the next victim right away so they keep biting (and it might trigger the reflexes to eat what they are biting)
Now like I said, I only know main stream zombie movies.
(WWz, 28days/weeks/trainToBusan,RE,TWD etc.) and in all those movies, the zombies dont even eat the people, they only bite one until that person turns.....maybe in some they eat people, dont remember...but it would makes sense since I only remember watching movies with "human-like" zombies and those still mostly follow the rules that humans follow too, so they need energy, in some movies they also eat animals if I remember correctly
I want to write a story of zombie apocalypse because i dreamed of one but i can only remember the end and i dreamed it twice
The ocean. No zombie can survive the pressure of the ocean, and there’s predators everywhere that would love to munch on flesh.
But like... the predators would just because zombies. And honestly I perfer have fight an under water human zombie over a zombie shark or whale 😂
@@jaylee9552 A virus cannot hop species like that . There’s a reason why we’ve never seen a rabid bird or frog before
@johnnywalker8282 sure intill we do. I mean you can't know how a theoretical virus would behave
@@johnnywalker8282 THIS theoretical virus could. I don't think you understand how quickly a virus is able to mutate, and there has been viruses that infected multiple species. Also, it might not be a virus. It could be the cortycep fungus.
@@jaylee9552 Well according to almost every case of a viral disease, either bacterial or a virus, or even a fungal disease that causes neurological interference, we have never had something like that happen. Albeit things like rabies can effect humans in similar ways but not in the same way it effects a dog. A man with rabies cannot consciously drink water as rabies is I believe centralized in the mouth. They did studies on this including forcefully putting water in his mouth and his body itself rejected it.
So a zombie disease may affect animals, but likely not to the same degree that it effects humanity. We may see something akin to wasting disease in animals as that is the closest we have to an animal zombie virus. Cordyceps being the most popular. But in reality a fungus like that would force the host to find a damp wet place to die in. Attacking others to ‘spread’ the fungus is not efficient or something a fungus would do naturally. Efficiency wise, it makes more sense to send a host to a place to die to spread their fungus in ideal conditions.
The military would probably beat a would be zombie apocalypse before it even started to be an apocalypse
Think it would depend on the type of zombie in question.
Not if it’s airborne they won’t
Even ones life World War Z and 28 Days Later would be wiped out easily
@@Baboonmomma cordyceps sporse from tlou, special infected from l4d, necromorphs in general, rakghouls from star wars eu(can retain the skills they had before turning), poxwalkers from wh40k(a spiritual infection that you can get just by being near them) and the multitude of zombie viruses/parasites that umbrella corp plays with could easily throw a wrench in that. So I reiterate, it depends on the zombie (or zombie adjacent) in question
@@marltonmanks9891 some are very powerful but ones like, The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, World War Z, 28 Days Later and ZombieLand stand no chance
I once read someone describe their idea that going to higher altitudes, like hills and mountains, would be generally better, as it forces the zombies to walk uphill. This would cause them to degrade their leg muscles faster, so while running uphill would be a bad situation, once you are significantly higher than the majority of them, it should make it less likely to run into them in general. Depends on the version we're going with, but sounded pretty plausible if it's simply a virus that animated dead flesh, as the physical components would be stressed harder
Nobody seems to consider that stores would likely be stripped bare, be traps used by criminals,or be occupied by other survival groups.
Also most survival groups would be extremely distrustful,and slightly greedy,so the surrounding houses and other stores would be rendered unliveable for the sake of security.
Coffee,energy drinks,and other energy providing dry consumables would also be a highly valued resource that would likely replace most currencies. Many people would kill for a spike of energy that could very well save you in the long run.
Second to this would be entertainment such as books,and if you have power,movies and video games.
Mosquitoes carrying the virus.
Depends on the virus.
Only a handful of viruses are transmittable via mosquitoes.
If mosquitoes transmitted all blood-borne pathogens, we'd all have AIDS.
Holy shit your right
Welp, it was nice knowing yous… 👋
everyone is dead
shit
Plus the mosquitoes themselves would not be zombe as they do not digest the blood, but would instead bite just as good and give birth to hundreds of zombie mosquito eggs
The reality of the lack of medication will cause. If you're a person that has diabetes or high blood pressure then you'll have a bigger risk of dying long before a zombie gets to you. And also sadly, if you suffer from mental illnesses where you have to be medicated in order to fuction normally; the likelihood of others wanting you in their survival group will go down drastically. You'll be considered a liability, even a ticking time bomb of unstabliness, or even a threat to everyone else's safety.
dying
not dieing
Luckily, you can make insulin with some chemistry equipment and enough fresh pancreases.
The walking dead comics talk about mental illness in the zombie apocalypse a lot.
I suspect that 90% of people with mental illness would find out they never had any type of mental illness and never needed any meds. They just needed to close their mouths in awe and stop buying every free bs out there.
instability
The thing that scares me is this. The world is full of Nuclear powerplants, what happens when there's nobody around to keep check on the cores? Would we end up with Global Chernobyl events? Or is there some sort of emergency unmanned kill switch?
Modern reactors just melt into themselves and contain themselves into a hunk of concrete. The emergency unmanned kill switch is the fact that it figures itself out without becoming a danger.
Modern nuclear reactors have a ton of safeguards for situations like that
if crews left right now after about 5 years reactors would either melt and olders would explode
I call this the Chernobyl Effect. No elaboration. Just know that the nations and their physicists are not m_rons, and people overestimated Chernobyl.
Many modern reactors can turn off safely automatically. But I am not sure how many older designs there arre
9:40 how did he find that out 😂
When the society crumbles, it's your fellow humans you should be worried about, not zombies.
No one seems to consider the fact that the wilderness will not be desolate anymore. Thousands of people will now be forced to hunt the local forests, making them extremely crowded and dangerous. Not to mention there arnt enough deer to go around
And some Deer carry diseases that are very deadly and will kill a human, I forgot what the exact disease was called. But it’s incurable and while we theoretically can’t contract it, it would still be a poor decision to eat that meat.
@@QuestionQuestionMarkyou are referring to Chronic Wasting Disease or Mad Cow Disease. The symptoms are really easy to spot so you’re fine as long as you know you stuffs.
@@bleacher333isn’t prion disease how the zombies in zombieland survived?
@@Justarandomtexantumbleweed836 I haven't watched the full movie so idk. Only like 20 mins of it with my parents.
Not sure if anyone talked about armor in the zombie apocalypse, but the idea of wearing extra protection against bites and scratches is something
Medavel armor would be crazy no human bite can pierce thru
And will look totally bad ass, depending on the armor design.
Would only work if you're fighting very little amounts of zombies and the zombies are weak
Armour would be good but you wouldn't be invincible
Yeah, just pull up in the middle of a horse with a T-60
*horde
No one considers working together, besides the ones who go crazy during an apocalypse the ones who don’t should work together, gather resources, plan things out.
Yeah allot of people seem to have very big trust issues or are just very introverted and believe that they would be some badass lone wolf when the reality is the majority of em will be grouping together with friends family and probably a few surviving neighbors and whoever that neighbors friends and family are in order to survive since sticking together and helping each other out is how our species survived for so long in the first place
@@elishafollet5347A lone wolf is a dead wolf. Sticking together in a group is the best option for any possibility.
@@lizzy1876 yes that's what I was saying
People overlook the fact that, they are zombies, rotting corpses, rotting, most of the bodies in graves and stuff are only bones at this point, and those who arent, give them 5-10 days and they will be rotted away
Literally just wear chainmail or shark-resistant wetsuits. No bites will get through.
Are you so stupid that you think people have those lying around the house?
Also, how EXACTLY does a bite proof suit help you when 100 zombies and crawling all over you?
I suppose it depends on the type of zombie you're dealing with. But, lets just say it's like the ones from The Walking Dead or something. Basically, they're just dead bodies with the ability to walk. Since their bodies technically don't have ANY sort of proper function like a living person, such as, heart beat, blood flow, brain function, etc, etc, they would literally just turn into a puddle of goopy rot within a few months. (Depending on what season were in of course)
Also, there were times in TWD where i would see zombies with entire chunks of flesh taken out of their arms, and the bone would be exposed and everything, and were able to grab onto a person, or rip them apart. Now, I'm no doctor, but i do believe you need to have a good amount of muscle, nerves, tendons, and other bodily parts and functions, to be able to grab, and hold onto something. You can't sit there and tell me that a rotten, reanimated corpse, with an entire chunk of muscle and such taken out of it's arm, has the strength to grab, and hold onto a living human. Naww, that's wack.
Yeah, basically, just give the zombies a few months to rot away, and humans will be back to living their normal lives.
Tip: learn carpentry its a useful skill when wanting to build walls and wanting to repair places to live at in the apocalypse and most people aren't as good as they think they are at it
I mean if Jesus could do, I don’t see why not. 😂 Ah but in all seriousness, it’s a useful skill, along with other (functional) artisan skills.
At least 80% of people will become zombies but nobody considers they themselves will end up as a zombie. So where do they come from?
I'm straight up getting someone to shoot me if I turn
@@Useless_singing you wouldn't want to experience life as a zombie then ;0)
Nowhere, because the concept of a Zombie is pretty stupid.
People don't realize that if a human bites the zombie it turns back into a human
I think the number one thing people overlook when talking about the zombie apocalypse is that it cna just, HAPPEN.
Everyone talks about having a bunker or hauling up at home. What if you were at the grocery store? What if your car broke down THE DAY BEFORE the outbreak happens? what if you used a majority of the food at home and then immediately had to start living off canned goods? What if you forgot to pay the water bill and couldnt bottle any while there was still some leftover in the tap? What if you had a shovel but it broke?
People always talk about being prepared but if its anything like the movies, then it just STARTS and you wouldnt really be able to pre-emptively plan for it. Even with the bunker idea you'd basically never be allowed to leave it/ or leave your home otherwise the outbreak could happen when you werent there.
No it cannot. Were you high when you wrote this comment?
The amount of diseases that would return without regular medical care. Especially with so much rotting flesh around. TWD did a few episodes on it with one zombie that died from something infectious infecting the group at the prison.
Something people don’t seem to consider, is that pets, (except for REALLY well trained dogs/cats), would have to be put down…. If you don’t put them down, you risk them dying a fate worse than death. And I for one, would rather my pets dies a fast, painless death, than suffer in a zombie apocalypse…..
Some people may think/say that they could keep their pet alive, but think about it. Could you? The dog that barks every time a leaf touches the side walk? You could keep that animal alive?
Another thing, people ALWAYS overestimate their survival prowess. Everyone thinks that they would be the hero, the last person alive on Earth. Well guess what, you’re not, and you wouldn’t. Don’t try telling me that the teenager who always stays inside playing video games, the overweight person who thinks that they’re healthy, the people with mental disabilities, the people who need medications in order to stay alive, etc, don’t tell me those people are going to live for long…. They’re not….
I don't know about you but I think I would survive a long time in a zombie apocalypse and I could keep my pets alive, I live on a farm I have crops and livestock, I would get a bunch of precast concrete panels from a place I used to work and also get a bunch of heavy equipment and build a 40 foot concrete wall with a mote around my farm, I would have my family there to help and I could probably get the Amish that live nearby to help, they're great builders and they have a lumber mill and a sheet metal factory, I would also use the heavy equipment to clear everything outside the wall for about a mile, I know how to forge so I can replace tools and make knives and I could also make ammunition, I could make canons for the wall, I would like to get a few 50 caliber machine guns for the wall as well but that might take more time, but honestly building the wall wouldn't really be difficult at all, I think I would do fairly well in a zombie apocalypse
@@johnhostetler2167 What da frick? Bro is who Doom Slayer would be if Doom Slayer was a Minecraft character XD
@@johnhostetler2167 You most likely wouldn't, either everyone is infected and you're fucked unless you're somehow immuned, or the disease is transmitted by scratch / bite and the army eradicate the zombies in the first day.
You’ve commented this three times now. You’ve made slight changes each time. If you’re gonna do it then at least edit the previous comments or something
I mean, like copying and pasting
I like how 95% of these are things that most people consider in a zombie apocalypse
No one seems to consider that the zombies will not only die of starvation, but at some point they will become only bone. Usually for a body to decompose till bone, it takes around 2 to 3 years and it also depends on where the corpse is exposed. So thinking that the bodies will be exposed to absolutely everything, they would desintegrate even faster. If enough people could find a place to actually settle up, the actual method to stop the zombie apocalyse would be to wait . Once they lose all the muscles that keep them going, they'll literally die.
This is what I'm saying! The only actually possible thing would be like Patient Zero type zombies. People who are still alive with a rabies like virus who retain intelligence, but are aggressive and think themselves evolved.
We’d be good if they don’t wield bows.
The talk about people liking the idea of doing zombie survival IRL because of the modern monotony (11:00) reminded me of "Zom100: Bucket List of the Dead". It's quite philosophical in how modern people are just like zombies going through the same motions each and every single day.
Ah we just lazy and don't want to go to work even if there wasn't zombies.
3:17 First of all, This guy plays way too much Project Zomboid.
Second, blow up the bridge? With what? Are you implying you have explosives stockpiled somewhere in your house for SHTF?
yeah idk what that guys talking about, major "and im gonna do this and im gonna do this" energy
And if one this not go to his plans like picking a house and only finds the owner of the house with a weapon or doesn't have a boat as people would already took it and drive far away from the land and zombies, he would have shock Pikachu's face.
Honestly he gives off the dead by day 1 vibes.
this guys plays way too much project zomboid, because why should you use a rope ladder, if it would be 10 times easier to just find a more durable and more reliable wooden/metal ladder that almost everyone living in a house owns, and if this genius survival expert manages to break down the stairs (that's if they're wooden) in one day without attracting any zombies by slamming down a slegde hammer all day, then he could also lift up the ladder to the 2nd floor when needed.
not to mention if he SOMEHOW finds explosives that are detonetable from afar (which if the military is still functioning then these types of explosives are going to be insanely heavily guarded, so say goodbye to that plan), and he tries to blow up a bridge in f*cking LA, then he'll attract every single zombie to the bridge and he'll have only a few minutes to escape death.
And with no one keeping the oil rigs maintainance and routinely checking for any errors, it will just sink into the water after a few years (this has happened several times before)
People like him are bound to die in the first hour of the apocalypse😄
homemeade explosives are a thing you know
and who will stop him? dead police?
it's not like he wouldn't have time to make perfect bomb
The gasoline issue would be a problem for the first while, but survivors would absolutely find ways to refine gasoline again. It would certainly become one of the main issues of conflict between groups as it is monopolized.
What if freshly turned zombies were still smart like uninfected people and didn't immediately try and eat people on sight?
Then we'd have a bunch of resurrected dead friends and relatives walking around. Or just people with bites and strange zombie appearance markers.
Apart from the rotting, it'd probably be pretty much fine.
that would make sense cuz their brain wouldn't rot the second they were turned
Isn't that Tokyo ghoul?
Undercover zombies
Virals from dying light basically
the closest we got from zombie rn is rabies immagine if that virus never kills it's host and just focuses on spreading.
Nobody seems to think about how it basically wouldn't even be an apocalypse for very long since after probably a couple weeks all of the zombies would be extremely decomposed and wouldn't be able to walk or probably move anyways
Libraries are full of educational resources that could help you. Not to mention if you get a generator running you may be able to access an online database. The place is literally designed to be comfortable with AC and heats.
And how do you power this though? Gas goes bad if you can find a diseal generator or a propane one your set a solar generator would be best depending on werebyou are
@@timfrank7461 Get your hands on some solar panels and find books on how to install it in the library.
You can make gas and gas substitutes in a variety of very easy ways, first is pure alcohol, very easy to make, second is wood gas, basically free, third is just making diesel, it's literally just refined oil, in theory you would have many engines with a variety of roles to run on these different fuels, there are many other possibilities too, such as "half diesels" that run on peanut oil.
Tldr liquid shit that burns is easy to make.
@@Mark-te5bf you can even make a wood gas
@@timfrank7461 ?
Well, the zombie movies do consider the downsides of ballistic guns (Guns make a loud noise attracting ever more zombies, and sourcing bullets is too difficult when manufacturing and distribution infrastructure shut down) They seem to gravitate too much to melee weapons as their answer, not enough of them seem to consider how archery whether it is long bow, or cross bow, gives you more or less the same range as guns, enabling survivors to take to the rooftops and sniper shoot the hoards of the undead all the same, all well being perfectly silent, and as long as the survivors do get opportunities to retrieve the used arrows/bolts, those arrows/bolts are easily reusable, well producing archery arrows/bolts on your own is significantly easier then producing bullets, making sourcing ammunition easier.
I like that but nobody is talking about how good an airgun would be, like if you have an airgun a lot of lead a airgun pellet molder and a hand air pump your probability of survival is greater also ad a suppressor/silencer for extra quite
I bow hunt, archery isn't something you just pick up and get good with in a short period of time especially trying to hit moving targets it takes months to years most people firing bows without a guard for the first time will flay their forearm and wrists. Crossbow is easier but it has a much longer reload than a compound bow and they aren't that common.
Apparently nobody considers ever stocking up on food, water and supplies, which any responsible adult should do anyway. Im not raiding stores for stuff i already have.
None of these people would survive my rendition of the zombie apocalypse. Except the guy about the condoms.
If you have a car, grease it so zombies slide off. I often hear from a couple of friends how they would turn a car into a war machine covered in spikes, that stuff, right? Well, that means you have either a still live zombie on your car OR chunks of flesh that will attract MORE zombies later on. Zombies can't cling to a greased car
bikes require maintenance. not as complex as a car but you still need extra chains and parts for the bike to replace older parts. plus, you are exposed and the amount of energy it takes to get a bike moving is more than the amount of energy it takes to start running.
To keep them in tip-top, factory-fresh condition, running at peak efficiency, you may be right, but how many millions of bikes across the world manage well enough with an occaisional squirt of oil and a strategic whack with a hammer now and then?
Well i've once have a bike that lasted 6 year with only oil and tire being a problem
a wd 40 is pretty much all you need if the bike is in top tier condition but you need a pump to pump the tire if it goes low or a spare tire if it pops
To counter your point on the inefficiency or biking to running biking is actually more energy efficient as you can stop moving the pedals and glide down hills or on flat areas whereas running requires constant effort and acceleration to maintain speed that really isn’t that fast where bikes go faster for longer now this only applies when the bike is in decent condition as it wears down it will become less efficient and eventually it will become unusable
3000 miles between chain swaps that could be pushed to like 8k miles. Who's doing that many miles?
And there's millions of bikes around
I really wish the dude who talked about the zombie book with the zombie whale gave the name it sounds like a rlly good read 😢
I believe it's "Dead Sea" by Brian Keene.
if you mean the one with the oil rig and zombie whale it says its from a book called sea of dead, you probably just missed it in the video
@@Zero-ei8jn Dead Sea was scary as shit. Hardly anyone I know knows about it, mostly because it’s just a book, never got adapted, and people seem to hate reading. Glad to find so many other knowers/fans of it in the comments here
I just got a new read. That and possibly world war Z. I didn't know about their ocean floor walking zombies.
I remember someone commenting that the outbreak in l4d kinda made sense, everyone was already infected. Only some people were immune(The survivors). And others just had different amount of times when the virus begins to completely takeover(Getting bit accelerates it). So basically, it didn't start with a crowd biting people until it became a problem. Literally a huge chunk of the population started turning within a week/month. Even if the military had the power and resources. How would they respond to their own forces turning randomly at any set time.
Yeah that and the fact that Green Flu mutates (according to the comic) DAILY which makes it impossible for any medical researchers to develop a cure. Not to mention the special infected like tanks that could wipe out a whole crowd in minutes.
MOPP gear bro
That's not true, all of the survivors in the games are carriers and everybody is not infected
3:50 All the food in all the stores will go bad very, VERY fast. Like, all refrigerated food will begin rotting in a couple days. Go look up the story of the Mexia TX supermarket biohazard.
11:44 don’t stock tampons, stock reusable menstrual cups, you wash them after each use
The discussion continues and its my kinda weird!
You should still stock tampons because they make fantastic fire starters in a pinch.
that the US government wouldn't have their thumbs up their assess when dealing with zombies, unless you make the zombie stupidly OP most governments would easily handle them.
Half the population would believe the zombies were a hoax.
@@nelsonhill4625 imagine if the Zombie virus could spread through air, people would still not put their mask 🤣
I don’t think I’ve seen a single zombie movie where someone pulls up to a gas station and pumps some gas. Lol.
There's a lot
28 days later
@@Fightzpike lol, in which case it’s literally been only 28 days, so the gas isn’t expired yet.
@@Kink_Shaman thats true, i feel like in a walking dead scenario it would be way harder
@@Fightzpike to be fair, in TWD season 11 we're only 9years ish into the apocalypse. Gas breaks down, but doesn't get useless in that amount of time
I do think northern Scandinavia or somewhere in eastern siberia might be the best places to survive an apocalypse since they are sparsly populated and full of game fresh water mountain streams and cold springs plus completely covered in trees and shruberries so forraging for berries and mushrooms and stuff will be quite easy to get aswell. The only major downside is winter BUT i think if you manage to find a log cabin with some firestove you should be alright.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b Luckily i know all of that since i live in a rural area of northern Sweden so i got experience in all way shapes and forms of hunting and forragining in my local eco system. So i know which shrooms are poisionous and which are fine too eat, i know which berries are fine too eat, got alot of experience fishing with net and rods. Also got experience of hunting/drying meats the question about getting enough salt too dry the meat is though but probably solveable. we also happen to have a cabin in the woods with a cold cellar or whatever its called in english. Its about 250 km from where i live so it will take a while to get there definantly but with a bike and or car (since its sparsley populated you would most likely be fine getting away with) shouldnt be too much trouble.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b i love your "how are you going to get there"
now i know I'm not OP but it's really rather simple for about 50 million of us. step one: wake up. done! you're here! wahoo!
Finding a "log cabin with some firestove" shouldn't be too hard, either. There's about a million and a half (actual statistics) of households in Norway alone that have fireplaces/places to burn wood in their house, and that's not counting cabins (of which there are about half a million in Norway alone), many (if not most) of which are in the mountains. Sure, you'd need to get to the mountains, but there's plenty people who live there already.
If you already live in a cold place like this (like most of the people surviving in places like this) you'll be better equipped at dealing with it simply from exposure. We know how to dress, to ski, to traverse snow and cold - we learn to dig snow shelters in school - I've personally had courses on edible plants (and how to FIND edible plants!) interspersed with other education from as early as first grade. I'm by no means a wilderness expert and would probably die within a week (disabled! yay!), but there are plenty of people who would be able to get by long enough, I think.
I think it's also important to remember, when we're sitting here discussing things like these and planning out what we would do, we're trying to find ways to make things work. It's a puzzle, a game, a way to put knowledge to the test. I, for one, enjoy thinking of all the ways A person (not 'me' person, or 'any' person, or 'every' person) could survive, should they have the right tools and knowledge. I'm also a fan of survival stories as a storytelling tool - it's a very literal way of learning to work with a character's knowledge :)
0:16 they provide absolutely no armor tho. They’re heavy and hard to carry when you need to, wich will be a lot because safe biking terrains will be destroyed. And they’re so slow. Also may I suggest The Zombie Survival Guide? Great book.
Also electric cars exist now. Until the power plants stop working.
The bloody tampons caught me off guard but oh man thats hilariously brilliant😂😂 will need to try that if there ever is a thing as inconcievable as a zombie apocalypse lmao😂
For me it's going to be the fear of being torn apart and how absolutely agonizing that has got to be. Zombie apocalypse no thanks.
I haven’t fully watched the video so someone might’ve brought this up but something no one ever considers is that zombies are dead so their heart isn’t working anymore. Just go to a really cold place and take shelter there, but not Antarctica. To cold. The zombies hearts are inactive so it isn’t pumping out warm blood, they’ll just freeze to death almost instantly.
So they’d all die in the winter
@@ashark1419 if cold enough, yeah.
Uhm biology? If their hearts don't work they'd also be dead in summer or wherever. Main point of blood is not to keep you warm, it's to keep you alive. You can't survive without a heart in a heated room.
If we would talk about a "realistic" zombie apocalypse, since that seems to be the idea of the video, the zombies would not be dead, dead zombies in the real world would not be a problem since they would be unable to perform any actions after a short time.
A "realistic" zombie apocalypse would be 28days/weeks zombies, they are still alive, they are still "humans" they are simply infected with a virus (Rage-virus).
Now, there could be "dead zombies" but like I said they would not require you to go anywhere since they would simply drop dead after a while....they would have no energy to perform any actions if body functions stop working (heart stops etc.)
I have always wondered how these "dead" bodies stay moving for years after they start decomposing
The problem going into remote places like islands is that everyone would have the same idea
Good luck finding an actual boat,
And if you do find one. Pray that the island you are going to is not already filled with bad people or zombies
what if the zombies are chill? like theyre just people who came back from the dead they might be happy.
4:57 Oof, zombie spiders, what a horrible thought. Everyone sing along! "The itty-bitty zombie climbed up the water spout"........
I feel like in most zombie shows, can’t you just wash the bite mark with soap and water to decrease chance of infection
If you manage to get to it before it enters the blood stream, then possibly. You'd have to be real quick tho
Waste-disposal systems. Once they begin to fail, you are doomed, if you live in a city, or almost any concentration of humans.......
Also, proper waste disposal and correct placement and managament of "toillet"-areas is usally not considerated in almost any show or book adressing the topic of an apocalypse.
Yeah! Shelter, heat, water, food and security are esential, but will be of no use if yourself contaminate your water-source or your partymembers by not managing in an adecuate way your depositions (we have gotten used to see them disapear just by fushing the toilet and have NO idea of how much even a small group can generate with enough time).
Also the smell can atract predators (zombies/animals/humans), if not correctly managed.....
Finally, the idea of just going casually alone to a isolated place, to do your "buisnness", putting yourself in risk is simply ridiculous. Encamped survivors would probably use buckets or similar, in some tent or cabinet in the same camp, and dispose of the resulting waste several times a day, in company of an armed group........
I know, I know, waste disposal is not as glamorous as fighting zombies, or searching for food or weapons, but on long term, it is of the outmost importance........
I mean i think ir sucks as well, think about it, why do people never have their gun when they are taking a shit, even if it is just breaking into a grocery bathroom and leaging a mess.
Ye and what about power plants...
And also the zombies will be shitting everywhere, and nobody will clean up their waste
in shows and movies the characters dont have human functions apparently
Season changes. In the winter, they would freeze. Clean water. Fleas, rats, disease. Sanitation. Nuclear meltdown. Wild animals.
a zombie apocylpse wouldn't survive for more than 6 months.
best case scenario: zombies don't have any water logistics to rely on, quickly chopping down their population and ending the issue within a week
mid case scenario: zombies would decompose. unless the virus somehow hijacks the immune system, all zombies would be super prone to decomposition, it'd come to a point where their bits and pieces just fall off and they die randomly, this would probably happen within 3 months. this is supported by the fact that all zombie illustrations are always already half decomposed.
worst case scenario: they run out of food. assuming they know how to eat, their primary food source would be other zombies. eating their own would just cut their numbers down. which would be a steady process of months
Appendicitis, if you develop it during a zombie apocalypse you're pretty much dead.
Not just zombies, but any emergency or survival situation: People expect to get superpower when it is a matter of live and dead. You can't jog a mile, but when zombies are after you, you think you can run 5 miles easy. But the reality is your ability drops hard when it counts. Most people wouldn't be able to add 2 plus 2 together when their child's life is on the line. Animal brain takes over, you freeze up or scatter into a random direction. When something heavy drops onto your 5 year old and they are pinned down the parent would run head first into a wall 10 feet away and knock themself out.
You forgot about one thing, adrenaline and adaptability, I have been in situations before where I had to survive and I pulled it off, and I'm a lazy fucker, but when it counted I pulled thru, most people would surprise you. I think if someone had a panic attack they would mess up because they are in a heightened state.
You watch way too many kids cartoons if you think that's how people actually behave in life or death situations. No, people are not going to run head-first into a wall and knock themselves out. Sure there are situations of extremely, exponentially stupid people doing stupid things while stressed and hurting themselves as a result, but that is a rare case and most definitely not the majority. "Scattering in a random direction" is not even an instinct that animals have except for maybe spiders, which most people are not spiders (and spiders only run in random directions because they can't see well). You'll never find an animal running in a random direction when frightened. Just like other animals, humans will run, fight, make threats, etc, toward a threat, and will experience an increase in adrenaline which makes them significantly stronger and able to act quicker. This applies to any emergency situation. Freezing up is a response that some people have, but they grow out of it after exposure to multiple threats over time. And freezing is done under specific circumstances, otherwise they would behave as normal and run or fight.
Fuxk off, in an emergency people become morons. This is why NO ONE ever does the hero ahit they always imagine they will do when they talk with friends.
@HellhoundsHunt jumping spiders don't scatter in random directions, the only spider not to because they're much smarter and rely on their vision. Sorry, I'm just a spidey nerd. Everything else is 100% spot on and I completely agree.
Bullshit
"vegetarian zombies" got me so hard
If zombies are people who just act on basic impulses, put them in a farm and they'll eat all the crops 😅
It got you what now? Ayo
Suppressors! Use suppressors on your guns, find suppressors, or make one. Even if you're using ammo that isn't subsonic, the crack of the shot through the air won't give a clear indication of where you are to zombies
Thank you for using the term SUPRESSORS and not silencers lol plus if it's a 22. That thing will be hell quiet
I'd just use my crossbow. Once I run out of bolts I can just make my own. Much more silent and reliable.
@@caiuscosades1791 wind
@@caiuscosades1791 You can only make arrows if you can find a stick/branch straight enough to not veer when you shoot it. In any case, something is better than nothing. I'd personally use spears. It doesn't need to be straight or aerodynamic to do the maximum amount of damage as melee. All you need is a stick and a relatively sharp rock.
@@Whatthefudgecookie true, but I do have a pretty decent compound bow with a 35lb draw. Can't go wrong with a design that's been with us for 70 thousand years.
In a zombie apocalypse, no one consider how rough things will be for Vampiers .
It's very easy to get little cuts on your skin, and that can easily lead to infection without correct treatment (which a lot of people won't have access to in this situation, because they wouldn't have access to hospitals, supplies and/or knowledge to deal with it), which could lead to an amputation of a limb (which, as the guy below this comment said, you probably wouldn't be able to do that in a safe way if you weren't able to treat the infection) or death
An amputation makes it worse because nobody is going to have a proper sanitized place for amputation none to less how to do one or wrap up the chopped part. Depending where the amputation is the person is cooked. And if the virus is airborne forget it. Also the pain . . . One loud noise and the team is also cooked.
things like diarrhea or urinary infection would be an absolute NIGHTMARE without being able to get medication
Mosquitoes would become a huge vector of infection
Thank you for have one these with no music or robotic voice. It's funny too!
As a professional landscaper:
In regards to the mowed lawns:
Short grasses and lawncare arose as a safety precaution against hidden assailants. Tall grass hides.
As for how to trim it. A simple scythe was the first "lawnmower"
Women having their periods and there is no more pads or tampons left! So they just have to bleed in their pants... 😰
As a woman, this part grosses me out.
Women will likely just go back to using cloths or whatever they can find that is absorbent. The main issue is keeping your hygiene up, so you will need water to clean your clothes and yourself. Of course, cramps will be an issue, but I do think that most will eventually get used to the routine.
@@honestgenz4413 Yes thats a good solution however it will remain difficult and im also afraid groups will be less likely of accepting young women (especially men) because this is another problem (risk) for them. Besides the cramps being one thing, most women also have migrains which makes them extra vulnerable. Ah im happy the zombie apocalypse is just fiction 😊
Periods would be less of an issue than most people think because when a woman is under great amounts of stress, her body absorbs the extra blood that usually makes up the period.