Poll: So,when do we get back to normality?

[fix-the-spade]

Define normal?

After all major wars life does return to 'normal' but it's always a very different normal to the one before.

Just look at the society changes after WW1 and 2, things would calm down but they would never be the same, especially considering the scale of destruction a Zombie apocalypse would entail.

 

[darkless]

It would take centuries, imagine it lets assume a generous 1% of the worlds population survive that's not nearly enough to get a country up and running again after so many casualties and it may very well end up that you may not have anyone who understands how to work some of the more elaborate and complicated machinery around.

Imagine it you would try go back to your daily life but no one knows how the countries power grip works, what do you do? you cant chance it you could very well blast a seizable chunk out of your county killing some of the few survivors and permanently cutting a section of the city off from power or at least until we progress to a point where we know how to rebuild it, if we survive that long.

no more oil shipments so now cars to get around, no more imported food so you have to live on what you can grow but what do you do until the first crops are harvested or until livestock is found that isn't infected, how do you guaranty you have enough for everyone?

I do believe in such a situation we would be thoroughly boned

 

[Cryofthewolf]

I don't think that we would ever get back to normal, as we know it now. As people have already stated, a new normal might emerge, but what we know today would never be the same.

I'm also wondering here what kind of zombies we would be dealing with. If there is a plausible chance for people to come back from the dead, would they really go after the flesh of the living? If so, that leads to more questions: How would we kill them? Do you have to aim for the head? Can the brain function without the rest of the body? What about animals? Would zombies target them? Would the virus be able to survive on an animal host?

I think that if there ever is a 'zombie invasion' that we shouldn't all rely on what the movies and books tell us. They might not be correct. For example, I've read the Zombie Survival Guide and have thought to myself 'how much of this could we rely on?' There are a couple things, such as transportation, ways to keep healthy, etc. For example, if the zombies do moan and make other noises, earplugs would be very useful when in a safe-house. Traveling at night or in the day is also an interesting choice. Most likely the dead wouldn't develop night-vision, so night would probably be the best time to travel, but if zombies are encountered while on the mood how would you handle that? Can they run, or do they slouch and shuffle towards their prey? does their moaning alert other zombies that dinner is nearby or are zombies all on their own?

What do we do if someone in the group is infected? We can't know how long the person has to live, what side-effects the virus has, how long after death does it take to reanimate, is being infected guarantee your death? Can the virus be stopped?

I know I'm posting a lot of questions here, but they are good things to think about if you have a zombie plan.

One day, perhaps. But there'd be less people.

Presuming only Britain gets infected, we'd probably be quarantined and then the UN would blast in to help us.

I think you're right Orange, you'd be quarantined, if the governments are still functioning. You guys are an island, so if the virus is wide-spread throughout Britain and Scotland than I would think you are all screwed. =-/

The same goes for any Island. I live on Cape Cod (The little peninsula-looking thing that sticks out from Massachusetts into the water) and they would probably keep us quarantined. Cape Cod was turned into an island back in the (30's?) when a canal was dug, separating us from the main-land. If there was a bad infection on the Cape, then they would probably set up a safe-zone on Otis, the military base (That I live almost steps away from, by the way) on the Cape and destroy the two bridges that connect us to the main-land. That probably wouldn't do much though, seeing as most Cape Codders have boats and would probably sail to Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket or maybe even be ballsy enough to sail towards the mainland. Survivors would probably all be contained in at Otis, to be transported out by the military to someplace safe. (That is if they aren't busy with more populated areas.)

Wow, I'm starting to think too much into this. Time to get back to reading about the Byzantine Empire. x-P

 

[Jharry5]

If something as massive as a zombie apocalypse ever did happen, I don't think we'd ever get back to exactly the way things were before it happened. There would be too many people gone, whole skill bases lost to the virus. Plus, with all the widespread devastation caused by the anarchy of the initial outbreak, it'd take the survivors ages to clear up...

 

[Caligulove]

what do you mean as normal?

Normal is always changing. there are people who wonder when we'll return to being Normal NOW, in the 21st century. as if we stopped being normal... before now.

Normal is what we adapt to.
It's just a matter of time. Eventually you might just have a Zombie or Vampire culture or something... like in I am Legend (the book)

 

[Cryofthewolf]

Yes, Normal is a very wide term.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

After the initial shock of an unexpected zombie uprizing, people would start to adapt, becoming skilled at zombie-land survival (not an intentional reference to Zombieland, I have always thought of post-zombie Apocalypse as zombieland). Soon, survivors (and given the number of zombie movies-games-books-etc there would be a LOT of survivors, a good 30% I would bet) would gather and create zombie free refuges around the world.

Despite lingering technology, the lack of attainable raw materials will devolve the societies to a sort of hunter-gatherer state, and communities will likely war over the dwindling resources (weapons-ammunition, non-perishable foods, usable tools, drinking-water, etc..).

Between settlements being wiped out in petty wars, or being unable to sustain their numbers, there will eventually only be a few, powerful settlements left. These settlements will have gained the structure and organization to venture more fully into the dangerous, zombie-filled world, aided by a now thorough understanding of their dim-witted enemy. New, smaller settlements will crop up, their loyalties to the major settlement that they originated from.

By now, zombies themselves will be dying out, because their dead bodies would start to rot away into nothing. This is not to say that the pandemic will vanish entirely; rather, it will be a lingering threat, one of many hazards in a dangerous world. However, understanding of the creatures would make it unlikely for a similar outbreak to occur.

As generations come and go, there will be many wars, tragedies, success and even golden ages for the super settlements, which will eventually become as independent nations, once people are able to grow crops and domesticate livestock in relative safety.

And so, the world would slowly rebuild itself. Humans would adapt, and human life would go on.

Until the aliens come 80

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

I still think that Shawn of the Dead got it right in having the zombie apocalypse end later in the day that it started.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Life?
Of course.
After a million years, life would return to the surface of planet. Plants would grow, animals would kill each other.
Humans?
We'd be fucked. Utterly.