Asklemmy

How my fellow USians handled (and are still handling) COVID-19 showed my wife & me that there are only four or five people we can actually trust in a zombie apocalypse. Everyone else would get got for either not taking it seriously enough or not being reliably vigilant.

Zombie apocalypse or not, I'd love to hide away for the rest of my life in a cabin in the woods.

My zombie apocalypse plan is to fucking kill myself

The best strategy in an emergency is always mostly cooperation. There will be some awful behavior to look out for, plus with zombies you'll need a means of keeping them out and screening people for signs of zombification, but it'll be hard to survive and do that stuff without a community. Many hands, diversity of skills, people to talk to, etc.

For a long time the plan was to head up to my friend's house. Cuz he was big into guns and lived basically in the middle of nowhere.

We talked about being defensive but helpful as possible, without sticking our heads out too far.

He passed away a couple years ago and now I'm not sure what the hell we'd do. I've always been outdoorsy, so probably go to one of the woods I'm familiar with and hide out, at least for a bit, to see how things pan out.

So, very defensive, but not very aggressive.

Edit: I'm also pushing 50. I'm still pretty fit, but it better happen soon or we'll probably end up sitting here. Defending the house as long as possible.

I'd be dead.

(It is my firm opinion that I would be one of the first people killed in a zombie apocalypse.)

I dunno. I actually think about this sometimes. I'd like to think I'd be friendly, but it depends on how everything went for me leading up to wherever I end up. If I lost my entire family, I would probably become pretty hostile towards everything. If I wound up in a big safe place with lots of supplies and people, I'd probably be more friendly, but also wary of anyone new.

We are all only three meals away from absolute savagery

Zombies are so dumb, they don't even know where the brains are, they always go after the abdomen.

If you can't defeat a slow moving undead creature with fewer active brain cells than Donald Turnip, then that's on you..

Shit, I'm hostile now.

Legit, I'm usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don't trust any motherfucker at my back until they've proven they can be trusted.

That's how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

Friendly! I have experience growing food and I'm pretty good at cooking it too. Someone else can teach me how to kill and eat the deer that infest this area so that we can have a balanced diet. We will do mutual aid and survive against challenges that we could not face alone. Apes together strong.

People tend to change when facing true hunger and scarcity. Hard to tell. It can go really quickly into shoot first ask questions later, but really depends on the depth of desperation.

At first, hostile. Once things settle and communities start to form, I’ll be friendly. But for the first few months, I’ll be protecting family and possessions aggressively.

Friendly. Humans are a social species, that's the way it works; the battle royale thing is mostly good for television. Even the fucked up shit we do is done socially.

What do you mean about the halo effect? I thought that was about physical attractiveness.

BRAINS

Hostile, how else am I going to kill zombies?

I assume zombies function like in Plague Inc. They eventually just starve to death after some months, so just being closed in couls be okay for some months imo.

But I would be a cautiosly friendly one prob who eventually gets exploited by trusting in people sorta.

Depends. I'd focus on participating in a disciplined community that can develop some degree of self-sufficience, and if feasible focus on producing some surplus goods to trade with other groups, like alcohol as disinfectant or fuel for goods we need. We would still practice self-defense.

If I wanted to isolate myself from society altogether I'd probably already be doing that a lot more than I currently am. I keep to myself more than most, perhaps, but I'm not interested in becoming a recluse

I’m generally a nice person who wants to help and do right by other people. But, I also have to balance that with my abundant paranoia and distrust of people. So I dunno.

As much as I would like to be friendly, I live in America. The reality of the situation is that a lot of the people who will survive the initial hardship are going to be conservative preppers who currently try to deny my right to exist. There's no way I could be friendly with them, just as I would not expect them to be able to be friendly with me.

Assuming I've already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I'd try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I'd die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn't cut it being alone and starting out I'd probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of "friends". To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

I would be friendly to those playing coop and hostile to those who are not.

Hostile as fuck, stay the fuck away.

Oh haha, Gee whiz neighbor, I wish I could say different but I'm quite certain I would eat the lips clean off your head if I had to.

That's not to say I would never consider doing that with some friends though.

I’m usually friendly but in a scenario like this it’s better to be very cautious of people.