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I probably wouldn't

I wouldn't.

These survivalist fantasies where people paint themselves as capable and not fodder...

Hell, you outlast the outbreak/bomb you'll probably die of sepsis the first time you get a bad cut or a tooth that goes rotten.

If it is truly the apocalypse, you are best just letting go, because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.

I'd head to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this whole thing to blow over.

I would not survive.

As I’ve grown older, survival has become a burden. I’ve decided to embrace chaos by traveling in my shark suit and detonating any reactors I encounter. I’ve always been a morally upright person, so I believe I deserve to sought a little chaos in my life.

Poorly.

I could last a bit. We have outdoorsy supplies and can do without electricity, but it's probably inevitable I'd just wind down or lose focus once and that'll be that.

Defensive Plants

Wizard Island is a 5 hour drive. Deep freshwater lake, surrounded by water on all sides. Fish. In a volcanic crater so any zombies coming have to summit the volcano first, then be visible on the rim before getting to the water, where they sink.

Highly unlikely that anyone would actually "survive" a zombie apocalypse. It's more a question of how long you'd last, and for the vast majority of people that would be just days.

For example, if you live in a major city, it's highly unlikely you'd have enough supplies at home to wait out the initial chaos. Heading to the supermarket to fist-fight over a can of beans, or going to the gas station, is exactly what everyone else is doing too - and that's where you either get killed by a panicking human or bitten by the infected.

Even if you had the foresight to stock enough supplies to bunker down in your apartment for a few weeks (by far the safest place for you to be), you'd still be trapped inside a city full of the walking dead. The odds could not be more stacked against you.

Idk, not sure I really want to live in a post-apocalyptic world. Life is already hard enough as is.

It'd be just my luck that I wouldnt die quickly, being forced to trudge through worse and worse conditions.

By pretending to be a zombie and hoping I don't run into Jessie Eisenberg.

1. Padded riot gear
2. Bicycle
3. Halberd
   

Form a citizen militia, go door to door and instruct people to start making spears out of what ever parts we can obtain. Train to fight in a formation.

Picks and shovels, construct earthworks to defend against a siege. Hold them out, funnel them into killing zones.

Driving (and living in) an 18-wheeler, I've got shelter and transportation already sorted. Got all the comforts of home on board. Enough food and water to last a couple weeks, maybe a month if I had to. I can carry enough fuel to drive ~2500 miles if I ditched my trailer, or to run my APU for nearly a year in "standby" mode. Sure, replacing that fuel once it's gone would be tricky, but it's a diesel. There are plenty of alternative fuel sources out there.

I suppose my plan would be to run away from civilization, but off the beaten path so as to not get stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. No need to go that far; a few dozen, maybe a couple hundred miles down a non-interstate highway should be sufficient to avoid most humans/zombies. Plenty of random warehouses and parking lots out in the middle of nowhere.

Then it'd be a matter of relaxing for a few weeks, keeping my head down, and listening to the radio for any news about a safe zone or what have you.

I would die during the opening credits

I might survive the zombies by not going outside like a shut-in but then die from something stupid like accidentally tripping over a rock.

By running faster than the people around me.

I think about this a lot.

Basically, in any sort of supply disruption cities will become unlivable very quickly.

Everyone thinks they can go camping and fishing. You could only survive like that for a few days - most fisheries cant support thousands of people from the city.

If you dont already live on a farm, your only chance is to find a farm and offer your Labor and help defending it from thieves and refugees in return for food. Dig in and prepare to be over run by desperate refugees in the coming days. Pay special attention to sanitisation. If possible scavenge medication.

Join the zombies 🧟

Water, shelter, food, security. Everything is viewed through the lens of those priorities, in order.

I wouldn't. I have an extroverted, anxious child who doesn't know how to be quiet or careful.

I believe it's generally accepted that zombies can't climb, or at least, they are really bad at it. So you basically just need to take the high ground. If you can get up a ladder or something, you would basically be safe and could easily pick off any zombies below with a spear or other ranged weapon.

Long term, I would probably go to the mountains, find a clean water source and plant crops. The mountainous terrain would be a big obstacle and most zombies probably wouldn't even try to go up. For any that do, I could probably set up some traps to lead them off an edge where they would fall back to the bottom.