Science Figures Out How to Deal With the Zombie Apocalypse
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Hiding isnt going to work(even if you can, it wont be for long enough). Most guns are a bad idea(too loud, attracts other zombies).
Ill take a quote almost directly out of the book,
.22 rifle, a bike, and a shovel.
You dont need to haul ass out of town, just move faster than them. Slow and steady pace wont tire you out as fast, the .22 ammo is really light and cheap for carrying/stocking purposes, the shovel is good for decapping a zombie at a decent length, ad well as batting them away. Find a group of ppl, go someplace inhospitable by unprotected humans (way up north) or get on a large ship/boat and sail out into the ocean and dont drop anchor. Doneskie. Wait till they decompose.
Or for smaller scale, engage in close range with the rifle only when you need to, preferring distance of course.
I personally think that the way it was portrayed in WWZ was really well done. Ppl will want to get out of the infected zone, even if their infected, and when presented with the opportunity to make money, ppl will let/help them. I think that if done correctly, a class 4 outbreak isnt totally out of the question. That and the obvious resistance ppl are going to have to killing family/loved ones. Fire to me is out of the question. Napalm is not worth it. The fire isnt going to slow them down, all your doing is making the zombie more dangerous to approach until the fire consumes the body, which id imagine takes a while.
Ill take a quote almost directly out of the book,
.22 rifle, a bike, and a shovel.
You dont need to haul ass out of town, just move faster than them. Slow and steady pace wont tire you out as fast, the .22 ammo is really light and cheap for carrying/stocking purposes, the shovel is good for decapping a zombie at a decent length, ad well as batting them away. Find a group of ppl, go someplace inhospitable by unprotected humans (way up north) or get on a large ship/boat and sail out into the ocean and dont drop anchor. Doneskie. Wait till they decompose.
Or for smaller scale, engage in close range with the rifle only when you need to, preferring distance of course.
I personally think that the way it was portrayed in WWZ was really well done. Ppl will want to get out of the infected zone, even if their infected, and when presented with the opportunity to make money, ppl will let/help them. I think that if done correctly, a class 4 outbreak isnt totally out of the question. That and the obvious resistance ppl are going to have to killing family/loved ones. Fire to me is out of the question. Napalm is not worth it. The fire isnt going to slow them down, all your doing is making the zombie more dangerous to approach until the fire consumes the body, which id imagine takes a while.
I have never mocked thee! I shall follow said kit and spread the word of the flesh gobblers uprising! hehe, flesh gobbler uprising.
This is why Canada is awesome. "We just got a grant from the government, what'd ya wanna do with it?" "ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SURVIVAL STUDY!!" "Isn't that a waste of money?" "Its the governments money, they'd waste it anyway." "Good point, Timmy's first, Zombie simulations afterwards!"
There was actually an addendum to their research relating to what happens if the zombies involved are the modern "fast" zombies. It says: "We Be FUCKED!"
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Like I've said before, a flamethrower would be more effective than what most zombie games depict. It's physically impossible (yes, I'm aware of the irony here) for a zombie to move if you burn away the muscles and ligaments.
Zerbye said:
Well, actually yes. If you have a truely virulent disease eradicating it is the key, and while it makes some people uncomfortable, killing off the infected would be the way to go. Unlike say horror movies and such where a town or building is simply quarantined... for reasons those movies demonstrate (the idea of someone getting out and spreading the plague).
It's inhumane, but simple morality by the numbers "kill a few, to save a lot".
Sort of like the ironic twist at the end of the Resident Evil trilogy where they use that exact statement (where the heroine is talking to a supercomputer much like the one who tried to kill them in the first movie, if the computer had succeeded quite probably the world would have been saved as I understand things... ).
So basically if I had a town or even a city of millions identified with some kind of plague like that, I wouldn't just try and lock it down and find a cure. I'd nuke the bloody thing and then kill everyone withou 10 miles of it just to be sure. This would make me an evil B@stard but if I was dealing with something like zombies or a true lethal, fast spreading plague even the death of millions in a city like New York or LA would be worth the potential risk of losing billions.
Really, when you get down to it there is only one sensible choice. Morality doesn't matter if your dead, and strictly speaking it's not even an immoral act when you get down to it. If you've studied ethics, most ethical systems would very much define that as the right desician.
Now granted the less contagious/dangerous the plague is, the less extreme the measures needed. Stopping a Zombie Plague or a "Hot Zone"/"The Stand" type epidemic represents a threat level (extinction level event) unlikely to ever exist off paper. More realistic situations are of course going to require an appropriatly measured response. However even when humans are involved there is a point at which killing them to halt an infection is going to be appropriate. Chances are that unlike most movies intended to inspire tear-jerking reactions, your dealing with mercy killings anyway since people with anything that lethal are not likely to be in good shape.
>>>----Therumancer--->
You guys are forgetting that ANYTHING needs energy to move. If there IS a virus outbreak, and people ARE reduced to braindead shufflers, chances are they dont remember how to eat. or drive cars. Or speak. I call zombie population dying out within the week. They still need 1500 Calories a day, more cause they're constantly moving. I'd get out, come back when my food is low to find a bunch of idiot zombies starved to death.