Zombies
are everywhere. Movies, television (The Walking Dead on
AMC? Fabulous.), and novels. There's even a zombie erotic
anthology. Hey, say what you will - fear ramps up the libido.
Stress will be high and so will the horniness factor.
While
I'm not 100% sure that the dead will walk the earth - I do believe
that thanks to genetic manipulation and virus mutations, we will see
something similar to the 28 Days/Weeks Later movies. The
brain is a delicate machine. If something invades the brain we can
see behavioral changes very quickly. The only thing that keeps many
non-infected humans from attacking others for their belongings is the
fact that there are laws in place to prevent it.
What
if there were no punishment for those sort of crimes? What
if crime as we know it became a by-gone word with no meaning? What if
there were an infection much like the one in 28 Days Later that left
humans little more than an angry animal out to kill anything in its
path?
And
on an alternate path - what if in the government laboratories around
the world...what if just one had a virus that would restart a dead
brain? Even if a shambling corpse walked until it rotted too
far to move, what kind of damage would come before the thing fell
apart?
In
any of those scenarios, we're all
fucked. Yes, there will be survivors. At the
end of it all, who do you think would win? Will the survivors be able
to fight millions of walking corpses without eventually breaking
down? What about infected humans that may still have intelligence,
but no morals or empathy?
You
can increase your chances of survival. You can build a food
stockpile, grow a garden, bug out to some country fortress, or build
a bunker. There are thousands of things you can do to survive.
There
are also thousands of things you can do to die.
What
will you do?
We're building a stockpile, gardening, gathering rain water, and stockpiling ammo. We have a bug-out location, but we're trying to map alternate routes because (at the moment) we only know how to reach it using main roads. During a time of crisis, those roads will be swamped, so finding a few alternate routes is imperative. We don't have bug-out bags packed, but we do have a plan for loading trailers (two of them) if we need to leave convoy style.
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