r/ZombieSurvivalTactics

Guns draw a lot of attention and you would have limited ammo

Is there any unique thing other than like movies?

Suggestion to avoid during the worst scenario

on paper it's good idea given most would have their own generators to operate, some have second floors so it be easier for the first to be blocked and anything higher is resting.

Heres why I am never gonna be in any. Not just zombies, but the kinds of zombies. Kids.

one kid. I might be sad and give them a burial. but to find the nursery in the hospital or for the school to been an school kindergarden to 12 grade? I would just be having a panic attack just thinking of killing them.

so whenever I would come across people saying how they improve these locations or say how they won't do this or that or how schools and hospitls might be great locations. just know, there are and will be zombies lingering around and its not gonna be adult zombies at all. and there will be a story or evidence of what happened which makes it so much worse.

so again. I will NEVER gonna be living in a school or hospital if a outbreak happens. I much rather be in train cars and buses, or a post office. cause atleast the chances of kid zombies are too low and woun't be as a lot.

sorry for this random rant. I just have to do this because I been seeing a lot of deaths on news about kids lately and its just made me think of the dark side of outbreaks if it happens. I just hate seeing kids hurt or killed.

Which is better to loot during zombile apocalypse.

An arts school. Idk if this is what it's called in other places but basically a college for kids to go and learn more hands on stuff. Building houses, furniture, sewing, stuff like that. I remember one year in highschool I went to one and you had like the normal building where I assume classes are at. Then you have the gift shop where student made items are sold and across from that there was a building. We only went into a few of the classrooms but it was filled with domestic sewing machines and full of all kinds of fabric, materials and buttons and stuff. Another room and the industrial stuff with those large cutters that cut layers of fabric at once and the large sewing machines.

Idk if it would be a good place to like or keep your group. There is one behind my house that's not as advanced as the previous one mentioned but I've never been over there so idk

Also places that keep food shipment. When I was younger my mom worked with this place for a bit where certain things were shipped there for companies. Fruits kept in large freezers, huge crates of food like ramen and cup soups. I only ever went to the food section because that's what my mom worked with but passing some other sites had like large tanks for like waste and stuff. Toilets and just home stuff.

Brought that up because they were all in the same area. Government owned property, huge area mostly concrete though. Loads of buildings filled with freezers and stuff. Large walls and hard to get through gates without security.

Also in the same food trip we were shown this other building (same place btw) that independent businesses could go and rent and use the items. Idk how effective they would be during the apocalypse but they had everything for smaller scale food processing. Large freezers, those things that crush food into power. Stuff like that. Dehydrator. There was a section for jewelry and clothing making as well so rock tumbler and a lot of different kinds of art supplies that can be put to other uses.

There was also this room where you could make essential oils. I don't remember the details about the room but I remember relating it to what I was doing in chemistry class at the time where it was like separation of mixtures or something. The room was dark and the floors were like the kinds you shouldn't run on because you will fall. Large machines that got really hot.

Yeah its long sorry I was just thinking this place would be good. Even some of the smaller arts schools might be useful.

Here is the basic idea, how do things change if each zombie is unpredictable. Some are slow, some are fast, some crawl at freakish speeds up walls, some have perfect balance despite wobbling about all the time.

Mentally they also vary. Sometimes zombies just, stand there watching you barely able to recognize you are prey, other times they are hyper aggressive, sometimes when sleeping they will whisper about needing help, and being sorry.

Damage to the brain does work most of the time fortunately, however in rare situations damage to the brain stem will also be required. Fire and electricity can also shut down their nervous systems and therefore lead to them dying.

The virus is spread through bodily fluids, so in most cases bites will spread it, but things like sex or blood transfer can spread it.

Time to turn is pretty much up in the air. Some turn in under a minute, others take a week to even start to feel ill.

A few people are asymptomatic, simply acting as carriers. Their symptoms is pretty much only being in horrible pain all the time.

Oh, and for the sake of spicing things up further, in one in a million cases, zombie zombies will mutate. Into what? Who knows, but it'll be something so rare you hear many stories about them before you ever see one.

So, how does utter chaos affect your survival strategy? When every zombie you meet can vary in locomotive ability, when zombies can go from peaceful to violent or vice versa in a instant, when the time bites take can't be predicted in any way, what do you do?

Okay, so in Part 4: Turning the Tide, it talks about a woman who traveled with her folks to Manitoba during the start of the outbreak, eventually setting up camp with a whole bunch of people. Towards the end of the story, she talks about how the "community" eventually starts in with infighting and everyone looking out for themselves.

The question is, how does a community form but have no form of leadership come out of it? In pretty much every Zombie media I have ingested, it seems like that is one of the first things that happens. What are the odds of that actually happening instead of infighting?

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Imagine that Patient Zero appears in an American or European city. How effectively would government institutions respond?

Surviving in the ZA is going to be some tough work; it's going to take a lot of effort and energy in order to sustain yourself and your community.

Everyone knows that you have 3 days w/o water, 3 weeks w/o food, 3 months w/o shelter and yada yada. But that's the time limit you have before you die.

How far you do think you can last without these crucial necessities? Now how long do you think you can last without one of these essentials without being completely useless?

Yeah, you may be able to survive up to 3 days without water, but you'll be completely dehydrated and you won't have any energy to try and survive. You may be alive, but not as all useful enough to make smart decisions & not be a detriment to yourself and everyone around you. Not to mention you have the stress of zombies around you.

I've heard that some people can be somewhat functional by the end of the first day water-fast, but any more they felt like they couldn't do anything. I feel like food-fasters would fair a bit better as there are accounts of people not eating for a week or two (but still having salts & water).

What do you think?