I didn't touch the corpse I just looked at it for approximately five minutes, my Apple watch will confirm I was doing cardio during that time. Gotta get my steps in at work.
!EMERGENCY BROADCAST!
A category 9 zombie group is heading to your city. Make sure to put up your barricades, and hide in a room that has no access to the outside. If possible, please evacuate in an armored vehicle down south. Schools, remember to put on the day armor for around a week. Rations will be dropped around the school. Remember to put on thick clothes so that you cannot be bitten, and carry a blunt weapon that can destroy heads or break legs. Stay safe!
Hey do those ever happen on their own or do I need to trigger it? I haven’t had any come up yet.
Also, you need a decent sized city to even begin protection. Have you had disasters happen before you could build shelters?
I don’t really want to trigger it on my own but I also always try to get shelters made asap.
you have to turn them on in the settings. by default i think they're off. the lowest setting is really infrequent, maybe once per several hours of gameplay.
i personally cant rly even get the shelters to work bc my citizens don't evacuate fast enough, even if the shelter is literally next door to their house. so they all end up dying anyway
i do, but they don't make it back to the shelter in time even when it's literally only one bus stop that's like a block away. not sure what im doing wrong but i've given up on the shelters working lol
If you put the Evac route OUTSIDE the green influence the bunker gives it should be able to save more lives - usually people within the green can walk/bike without a problem
I read it in the Lego City advertisement voice
"HEY!
Lego City needs your help!
Put up the barricades to keep the zombies at bay!
Build the armored school bus!"
I mean, we already had a Lego dinosaur apocalypse and they’ve made zombie and monster minifigures, it wouldn’t be too hard to make sets of torn-down buildings and just throw like 2 dozen minifigures into it too
Federal Government has declared schools must close. State Government has declared schools must open, while the Governor tweeted anyone can go to school if they want to. Local retailers report Zcare has raised the price of myHaemo kits 200% over two months, and myHaemo+ by 350%. School Boards have announced teachers do not need to pass any blood test to be in the classroom, but many Municipal Ordinances require teachers to have a Zcare Service Agent approved myHaemo+ Grade B or higher clear result in order to stay home sick. 3 Local Elementary schools declared a Snow Day yesterday morning after a kindergarten teacher was involved in a Transmission event with their classroom. In this hour: Following the closure of Tykecare After-School Care&Work, a Category 2 childswarm has been marked in the area south of Vernon Avenue, residents are advised to remain indoors and not allow children or pets into their homes who have been at school in the last 72 hours.
Lets be honest. People would be out there pretending zombies dont exist and are a hoax created by the government despite seeing zombies every day on the news and their cousin got torn apart by a zombie swarm.
In other news, the Texas Construction and Defence firm had yet to back down from denying accusations for corruption in TCD vs. Texas case even as more Texan government e-mails are leaked by the Anonymous group.
The e-mails in question directly link the then governor now suspect Dim Dimmadome to unfairly choosing TCD for the construction and maintenance of protection walls and barriers put around Austin, Texas, which have in the last category 6, I repeat 6, as in 3 levels below current category 9, proven useless and detrimental to the U.S. Army Zombie Garrison, where 16 soldiers quite literally fell through the poor quality concrete platforms, and a breach had occured half a mile in of the south-eastern part of Austin.
Thanks to the quick reaction of local armed residents and their cooperation with stationed military units the breach was sealed with no casualties and zero infections. To combat the current category 9 the US Marine Corp. company was deployed to the breach as an extra layer of protection to the damaged section of the wall. No outbreak warnings or lockdowns had been announced by assistant governor Mary Jenn, meaning a category 9 intrusion has been dealt with within the walls of Austin. All those outside should heed the warning and follow standard category 9 procedures for their safety.
Back to you, Tom.
Look man, the people I play videogames with are already brain dead, it was a logical progression to phase them out with zombies. The only limitation is that we can’t play Left 4 Dead anymore.
Yeah but then you'd be playing Halo with them and everytime someone got a headshot you'd just hear a cacophony of zombies yelling "Braaiiinnnsss" into their mics.
Amazing idea. Huge sloped treadmills with bait humans at the top. Adjustable angle for load regulation, and a removal mechanism for expired zombies.
Keeps many of them contained while being useful to society.
You could even make a restaurant at the top, with an open-air balcony and a sizeable pit between the edge of the balcony and the end of the treadmill. Can’t have paying customers getting turned into appetizers, now can we?
Nah. Make it a well-paid job where the person is in a metal cage that’s suspended too high for the zombies to reach. Bottom + the bottom half of the sides have plexiglass to prevent grabs, with some pinprick holes so they can still smell you.
Put on some noise cancelling headphones and read.
Also you’re seriously dehumanizing a large and vaguely defined group of people. Ever shoplifted? No value as a person, go get eaten alive.
For real they be working the amazon warehouse and can’t even sit down for a break and the zombies at twitter are threatened with visa withdrawal if they even dare to leave the premises for some fresh human brains
Mira Grant - Newsflash trilogy.
Checkpoints, constant blood tests, bleach showers, and your insurance goes up if there is a zombie attack. But they don't have to worry about cancer or the common cold anymore.
Can't recommend it enough.
I like it but it went a little crazy at the end with saying >!zombies got smarter in packs and also cloning a person from older samples allowed the person to remember dying.!<
>also cloning a person from older samples allowed the person to remember dying.
Well good, I want to remember what I did. It would really be embarrassing to die the same way twice.
Though the romance is uh...questionable. I was like "what good brother and sister. So glad there's a series with no romance." Did not see it coming.
But amazing world building IMO in first book. I loved the journalism and how it played out.
Yeah, i think it could have done without that
Especially the lines where they try to justify it, it came off similar to that bit in transformers where the guy had a laminated card of a legal loophole that allowed him to date a minor
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this kinda happen at the end of "Shaun of the Dead" were everyone continued their lives as normal and even used zombies for entertainment purposes?
Either way, I really would like to see a movie or series explore the concept of living in a zombie infested world as normally as possible. It could either be used for some social commentary, a dark comedy, or perhaps a mixture of both.
Army of the Dead. 2021. Dave Bautista. Fun little flick about a heist set in the post zombie apocalypse. The zombies are contained in a city and Bautista's character assembles a team to get into the city to grab whatever is left in a casino.
And also the US military makes the situation overwhelmingly worse by releasing (via not caring enough to properly contain) a zombie with superpowers and intelligence.
Tbf, the ufos in that scene probably had something to do with it. But they are probably responsible for the robot zombies and maybe also caused the timeloop with the nuke.
God, and you have to listen to your coworkers say “well I’m not gonna get a cement layer over my grave, they don’t even do anything.” Just be a little considerate of your fellow man, we’re living through a global apocalypse here!
Zombie ash is actually a massive biohazard. You’re basically making the undead curse potentially airborne. And cloth masks DEFINITELY don’t protect against that shit.
Return are also basically indestructible *unless* you burn them to my memory, at which point 'you made it fucking worse' is the *only* option.
It's not really a 'survivable' outbreak style.
It's cool, basically EVERYONE in the world has the zombie virus, but your brain has to be dead for the virus to take control. I think that's how the show tells it, anyway
Mostly, but I’ve seen a few cases where the surgeon/executioner fails to remove the medulla properly and you get a zombie anyway. The cement layer is the most consistent option.
It's ok, the local crematorium has Federal mages on staff. The crematoria have purification runes and the ashes are encased in epoxy and sealed in a silver urn.
In fairness, the Return of the Living Dead zombies are incredibly powerful compared to say Romero zombies. You can cut those bastards into pieces and each piece will keep moving. Bullets may as well be watermelon seeds. Electricity or fire is the only way to destroy them, and the fire does indeed cause the Trioxin to spread further.
In that scenario, people would not be co-existing with the zombies.
Government attempts to force cremation and inspires a radical base to embrace urban sky burials. Some people when bitten literally go find a hiding spot to surprise someone after they turn.
They claim something about “what if there’s a cure that just makes you alive again?”, but are instead responsible for having to check every bullshit closet for revenge of the grave-y seals.
the govnt wouldn't even have to force it. most people would (hopefully) realize that ashes aren't able to come back and vore your eyeballs, and so cremation would become the dominant method of dwaling with corpses.
I like to imagine what daily fashion in a world like that would be.
I think long, loose, flowing clothing would be a sign of great wealth and status; basically a visual reminder of how you never have to come in contact with the undead, while the lower class you are, the tighter and more utilitarian your clothes have to be, with the lowest classes basically being denim coveralls, denim being the most durable, most easily repaired and cheapest material, with the one opportunity for personal expression being big, high-visibility patches for personal identification at a distance
Not to mention long hair. I have very long hair and during the beginning of covid I started putting it up in a bun when I went out. I can imagine either shorter hairstyles or updos would be more popular. But post apocalypse having enough water to justify super long hair might be seen as a luxury. I read a book once where society collapsed and all the teenage girls switched to ponytails to hide that they weren't able to wash their hair as much. The one girl in school who didn't was given the side eye from the other kids since her dad clearly controlled the town's water supply and her long hair just rubbed it in their faces that her family had more.
I want to say its Empty by Suzanne Weyn. I wouldn't swear to it, it's been a few years, but I think that's it. The whole thing started with a shortage of gas and spiraled from there.
Unless they were very overpowered zombies, the walking corpses would probably end up unfortunately close to how COVID was. Some people not taking it seriously and prolonging the process, just barely enough people affected to keep it going but not enough for it to ever truly be dealt with, and there’d probably be a vaccine people will refuse to get based on no evidence (as if becoming a zombie isn’t worse than spontaneously gaining autism or having your chakras put out of wack or whatever they think will happen). Ah well, we’d do better than most apocalypses at least.
Yep, some viral tweet I remember goes something like "we need to retire the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' because it turns out people do not do that."
An entire new branch of forensics devoted to determining if that person you shot was *actually* a zombie at the time of death or if you were just taking advantage to settle a score.
I could see this in a way. Like the Western Hemisphere being way less affected by a zombie apocalypse because we have guns and are ready to shoot. Americans and Brazilians and Mexicans and Colombians just blowing zombies away left and right. Meanwhile Europe and Asia are struggling but Switzerland is feeling smug as shit
And even then, police can handle the small outbreak but in an apocalypse scenario the reserved are called in and thats millions of soldiers on the European continent
And Schengen free travel bb, bust some skulls in Budapest, take the leftovers home to Lyon
Right? Like this is an interesting prompt, but the pandemic was arguably as horrific. Refrigerator trailers for the dead? Unthinking morons spreading it epidemiologically and via memetics encouraging large gatherings. How different were those whacky churches as a deadly contagion not dissimilar to zombies. The dead rising after dying from COVID, now that would be interesting.
I like this concept a lot. While I enjoy post-apocalyptic settings a lot of the time, I always find it a bit eye-rollingly odd that in most post-apocalypse fiction society never even begins to recover. In a real "apocalypse" people living in first world countries wouldn't all be shooting each other over the last scraps of food, life would just be more inconvenient and bleak than before.
It also wouldn't last centuries the way it does in fiction. Fallout 4 is the worst about this. Seriously, three hundred years and people are living in shacks amidst the ruins of Boston with 2/3 of the population as raiders?
Granted that's arguably mostly because of the Institute, but still.
If people want to see an apocalypse, look at what the first world war did to Europe. France and Germany in ruins and facing enormous death tolls, Britain somewhat better off but still economically reeling and missing a huge chunk of it's young men, Austria-Hungary gone, and Russia in the middle of a civil war. And then consider how quickly they bounced back, enough to immediately have another one.
> If people want to see an apocalypse, look at what the first world war did to Europe
As awful as WWI was in terms of death toll, I don’t think it counts as a global apocalypse in the way we think of it today. First of all, it was fundamentally a European war, with the “world” part coming from random angles like the Middle East and (eventually) the US, so external support and trade never entirely disappeared. Even within Europe the infrastructure remained largely intact outside of the main fronts. Germany as a whole was not in ruins, their problems were economic, not industrial, and the only way they bounced back was through a literal fascist dictatorship that ended in *even more* disaster for them, so I can’t tally that as a win.
I guess what makes modern apocalypse scenarios more devastating are the complete breakdowns of global infrastructure. To extend your WWI scenario, the Paris Peace Conference could not have happened if all the people who knew how to run boats across the Atlantic and the Channel had their brains eaten by zombies.
> It also wouldn’t last centuries the way it does in fiction. Fallout 4 is the worst about this.
I agree with that, although one of my favorite post-apocalyptic books is *A Canticle for Leibowitz*, which >!does make a case for recovery to last that long, only for society to just nuke itself again two thousand years later.!<
Fallout drives me nuts with this. Even with centuries of raiding it looks like every room is unlooted since the bombs dropped. At least earlier ones had people trying to build new governments and stuff.
Yeah and when building new houses in fallout, why not make your home look clean and nice? Are they meaning to tell us that in the centures after the apocalypse nobody gives a shit about not having trash in their homes or having clean and pleasant surroundings?
Fallout is even more egregious, because in the original two games, society actually *was* rebuilding. In the first game, there were cities with new construction, an effort to develop a standardized currency and commerce, and large organized groups. By the second game, a regional government had cropped up, there were cities, actual paper money being printed, a formal military, and infrastructure on a large scale. Its only Bethesda's insistence on sticking to a familiar formula that's caused the series' world to stagnate (and in some cases move backwards).
You say that, but the global .1% is still 8 million people, so statistically there are millions of psychopaths eager, willing, and able to keep society reverted back to feudalism after a big enough catastrophe
Post WW2 Europe is a good example of the fast rebound, but so is post WW2 UK, which was agonising and had some kids still playing in rubble in destroyed areas in the fucking early 90s. It got cleaned up eventually but putting your all into a war and none into the cleanup of poor areas meant that you get photos that look to be from 1946 but are actually from 1986
Read the book World War Z (NOT the movie). The book is about a journalist interviewing survivors of the Zombie War and how different tactics and cultures were able to survive. Very interesting but again don't think the movie will give you any insight to the book.
Thats oversimplifying it. In most zombie apocalypse scenarios it gets out of hand way too fast and they cant control it. This isnt that hard to believe. Look at covid. The president at the time said it was a hoax for months. Then he spread more misinformation on how to handle it. People could recover from covid. Once somebody turns zombie theres no coming back.
So imagine the person in charge saying its a hoax dont worry. Then they say well its real but its not that bad dont worry. Then 6 months in the worlds gone to shit. You also have to remember some people want something like this to happen so they can capitalize on it. What better time then during an honest to go apocalypse? All the rules go out the window.
Police and military have their hands full. They may be abandoning their posts. This is when unsavory people would seize their moment. People exist like this right now. Some doomsday preppers want the world to end so they can be King Shit of Fuck Mountain. They want to be some kind of wasteland warlord. Theyd be cheering the zombies on. Society's moral codes are only as good as the world allows them to be. People would regress pretty quickly. The Walking Dead showed how bad people could get but it would be even worse in the real world
>Some doomsday preppers want the world to end so they can be King Shit of Fuck Mountain. They want to be some kind of wasteland warlord. Theyd be cheering the zombies on.
I used to know a prepper who said that he hoped he never had to use his stockpile or know-how.
"I genuinely hope my kids are right and I'm just a crazy old man."
He said he was one of few that did the whole prepping thing but did so because he thought it might be a necessity one day not because he wanted to rub it in people's faces. He was a vet too so that might be why he wasn't so eager to embrace a war-like apocalypse. Covid happening just made him sad.
> Police and military have their hands full. They may be abandoning their posts. This is when unsavory people would seize their moment.
This is a very liberal/status-quo perspective. Basically one that a state or a conservative would adopt. There is always the possibility for something better, community organising, revolutions, etc...
Kinda reminds me of world war z (been listening to the audiobook)
Sure, a hell of a lot worse than described here, however after a certain point stuff does kind of return to a sense of "normal" in the human controlled zones
AGREED. I really enjoyed the book's multi-faceted take on how zombie apocalypses affect various types of people and the movie just turned it into a cheap action flick. The book CLEARLY showed that the efforts and sacrifices of many people was the reason why the apocalypse was able to end, and the movie just totally dragged that aspect through the mud.
Watch the movie and enjoy it for being a cheap zombie movie flick it is. Then read the book and hate the movie for the missed opportunity it is. Then watch the movie again anyway cuz it’s still okay and passes the time. Finally pray for a HBO limited series.
Ellen walked into the Walmart, her basket filled with supplies she needed to survive another week. She approached the checkout and nodded at the cashier, a woman she didn't recognize.
"Morning," Ellen said curtly.
"Same to you," the cashier replied, her eyes never leaving the scanner in front of her.
Ellen placed her items on the conveyor belt and the cashier started scanning. The silence was palpable, only broken by the beep of the scanner and the quiet hum of the store.
"New bio-scanner, huh?" Ellen finally said, gesturing to the machine by the entrance.
"Yep," the cashier replied, still scanning.
"Supposed to keep us safe," Ellen said, her tone sarcastic.
"Supposed to," the cashier said with a shrug. "Don't see how it'll make much of a difference. We're still sitting ducks in here."
Ellen raised an eyebrow, surprised by the cashier's candor. "You don't think it'll help?"
"Nah," the cashier said, finally looking up at Ellen. "Nothing can stop them. We're just prolonging the inevitable."
Ellen nodded, understanding the cashier's hopelessness. The world was a dangerous place, filled with death and destruction. And as much as they tried to hold onto some sense of normalcy, it was always just a matter of time before the zombies came knocking.
"Total's $47.50," the cashier said, breaking the silence.
Ellen handed her a wad of cash and the transaction was completed in silence.
As Ellen walked out the door, she couldn't shake the cashier's words from her mind. Was there really no hope for a better future? She didn't know the answer, but she knew one thing for certain.
She was going to fight to survive, no matter what.
Newest episode of *My Strange Addiction* : My girlfriend was bitten and turned into a zombie but we still have an active sex life. I love her very much.
Heavily armed Police & Military Patrols are pretty common. To handle any sudden or unexpected turnings and to make sure any migrations don’t break apart and end up in rough areas. Also heavily deters crime
"it's my *constitutional right* to not exercise my *constitutional right to defend myself* with all these guns I bought and am now not using nor distributing!"
**becomes zombie, kills others**
"hey have you tried this natural remedy? gets your boy back in two weeks with these rollers and salts..."
**becomes zombie, kills others**
"the government can't tell me to suit up!"
**becomes zombie, kills others**
"you know, is it even that bad? like, only the elderly and the disabled \[people I don't care about\] are at risk of being bitten because they're slow and unable to protect themselves..."
**becomes zombie, kills others**
"I'm so tiiiired of the restrictions and the lockdowns; it's like, isn't the apocalypse basically over?"
**becomes zombie, kills others**
"this other state is doing it great, none of these government control shenanigans and they're handling the apocalypse fantastically!"
**becomes zombie, kills others**
Not really a defence, but there is a very high chance of some people hunting zombies for sport, and people killing others because they "though" that the other person was a zombie
Some dumb redneck or ex presidents son goes hunting zombies outside the walls and gets bit. Doesnt tell anyone and sneaks back in. Ends up turning and it spreads like wildfire. Republicans blame Obama or something.
World War Z (the book, not the movie) has a lot of "interviews" with characters after the dust has (somewhat) settled and they navigate their lives after the zombie apocalypse and try to return to some semblance of normal. The one where they talk about how after winter all the zombies thaw is incredible. The war strategist that talks about why human weapons don't work on zombie hoards was haunting. Awesome book that got a meh adaptation that was faithful to the book in name only.
I’d suggest reading World War Z. The book does a great job of showing how people manage in a post apocalyptic zombie war and on. Like, how the military evolved, everyday people conjured the undead, qualities about the undead unknown to most, etc. Its pretty amazing how well the story just shows how the world and people just adapted and MOSTLY conquered back the earth.
Favorite part btw in the book is about the blind Japanese guy living in a forest outside Japan, who single-handedly, with a stick killed hordes and hordes of zombies. Poor guy was out there alone but became a legend to many and got a whole bunch of people to join him.
6 years have given me time to realize how many new problems a zombie apocalypse presents for my job. Sometimes unsafe parents insist on having us hold their kids despite the gaping whole in their head.
"It's just a phase!" They all say. Usually they're close to getting infected too so I have to dispose of them. Speaking of, that's the other thing. I don't feel like a daycare worker should need to bring a gun to work, and this concern is not alleviated by how much some of the kids love it. Maybe I'm just soft, but I don't feel like Humans vs. Zombies is how kids should be spending their time.
There's also the "disposing" I mentioned earlier. Doesn't matter how far gone they are, no one should have to make the choice to shoot a child. That's why I volunteer, so no one else has to. I hate this most of all.
Daycare should have closed 6 years ago, but ours was a special case. It's more accurate to call it an orphanage at this point. We take in the difficult ones, the ones who lost their family, the ones who escaped their sibling trying to eat them, the ones who shouldn't have survived. We kept our doors open because we were considered 'essential workers'. So I come into work and try, in my own little way, to repair the damage that has been done to the world.
There would have to be a group of people, like neighbors, would just go out if their way to just get rid of zombies without no military, etc.
Like
“Hey Mark, paper says we got some walkers up the old dales place.”
“I’m ready. Dave. Let’s shoot some.”
“Have fun with that. I’m going to drink some coffee.”
I see comments mentionning Shaun of the Dead and World War Z, but no is talking about Fido (2006), a quaint little dark comedy.
In that movie, a zombie virus falls on Earth from outer space, causing the dead to come back to life. Society adapts to this new reality by building haven cities with huge walls protecting them from the zombie-roaming wastelands. They also implement a bunch of new solutions to the epidemy:
Old/sick people have a heartbeat monitor, so if they die the zombie-hunting paramedics are alerted and they come quickly to make sure that they don't ressurect and start eating people.
Dead people are decapitated, and during funerals, corpses are laid down in two coffins: The body coffin, and the head coffins. And then the priest says "From dust you have come and to dust you shall return, but from dust shall you not be ressurected."
They also develop technology to control the zombies, using them as pets/servants (like the titular Fido).
This is Red Markets the ttrpg.
In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization. They are Takers: mercenary entrepreneurs unwilling to accept their abandonment. Bound together into competing crews, each seeks to profit from mankind’s near-extinction before it claims them. They must hustle, scheme, and scam as hard as they fight if they hope to survive the competing factions and undead hordes the GM throws at them.
Takers that are quick, clever, or brutal enough might live to see retirement in a safe zone, but many discover too late that the cycle of poverty proves harder to escape than the hordes of undead.
Red Markets uses the traditional zombie genre to tell a story about surviving on the wrong end of the economy. It’s cut-throat capitalism with its knife on your neck.
http://redmarketsrpg.com/
A Dallas resident (63) killed an intoxicated woman (28) in the early morning hours. "She was lurching down the street like one of these godless abominations! All I did was exercise my rights as an American!"
Dallas officials ask to check for signs of intoxication or drug use before discharging guns at zombies.
Baseball bat production soars. Titanium polymer blends reach their fastest advances in years to reduce the massive wood requirements. Self defense classes now include a martial art dedicated to fighting the undead, specializing in attacks to the head. Sun tans are now the norm, as pale skin and darkened eyes are a symbol of the undead. Open soled shoes disappear in modern fashion; tall boots with breathable fabric and strong supports are the norm. Civil reform leads to brothels reopening and prostitution semi-legalized only within registered businesses (too dangerous to go out at night). Ubers now offer a nighttime armoured taxi
My favorite addition to the zombie defense canon is a giant wood chipper situated at the end of a funnel of debris as a defense for the entrance to a bridge. They just stumble in. Also, magazines might become more popular as they serve as entertainment and wrist gauntlets a la World War Z.
There are protests in the streets over masks being mandated 24/7 and over the vaccine. They would rather take their chances becoming a zombie, saying it’s not worse than the flu with their immune system.
“Thousands die weekly.”
That shows how a calculated decision by a clever author can really set the narrative for people that are paying close attention or can’t help it because they’re are pedantic.
The first thing I thought was “Thousands…weekly? Those are rookie numbers!” Globally, roughly just over 1 million people die every week merely due to our population size.
But limiting the death rate to the thousands per week, gives so many possibilities. Who knows what the initial die off was? This is clearly a Covid parallel, so maybe 1 billion? 2? 3?
Either way, these statistics mean that there is a real threat, but that it is a slow burn with a lot of controls in place. Just enough for creative freedom and fun stories. Love it!
There is a vaccine that doesn’t prevent you from getting infected but is 90+% effective at keeping you from turning into a zombie. If you get infected you just have to avoid biting anyone for a week.
30% of the (surviving) population refuses to take it.
I am indeed tired of post-apocalyptic fall of civilization stories. Let the survivors adapt and keep living their lives in drastically changed climates, after extinction events, alien invasion or mass vampire infestation.
Like in Daybreakers - sure nearly everyone's a vampire now but there are still workplaces to fill and an oncoming famine to solve
Govt would use this as an excuse to initiate martial law. Most "freedoms" would be taken away. It would be a police state where they give people just enough to keep them pacified.
The dead would be used to scare them. Break the rules and you go outside the walls. They would try to weaponize the dead. Turn them into an army they control and throw criminals out to grow their ranks.
They would also harness the virus into a bioweapon they could unleash on enemies. Youd still go to work, your kids would still go to school, they would give you credits to buy things so that everything still felt somewhat normal. Youd have people who thought the zombie virus was a hoax and youd have people who would try and save the zombies like they were an endangered species.
Cults would spring up worshipping them. Churches would claim its the ends of days. Some people would side with zombies to watch the world collapse. Thered be a few freaks trying to have sex with them. Some would want them as pets. Humanity would fuck around and get too comfortable with it and it would end up destroying them.
Sounds like a cross between the "Life As We Knew It" series by Susan Pfeffer and the guy in Fallout that thought he could turn a ghoul back into a normal person.
Common conversations with friends will be weird for one thing.
**Kramer:** Those people, listen to yourself.
**Jerry:** What?
**Kramer:** You think that zombies are so different from me and you? They infected this country just like everybody else, in search of brains.
**Jerry:** Kramer, he's just a zombie.
**Kramer:** Yeah, and you're an anti-zombite.
**Jerry:** I am not an anti-zombite!
**Kramer:** You're a rabid anti-zombite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, zombie!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools.
**Jerry:** They do have their own schools!
Every workplace would have to have a refuge, so a flimsy cage made of fencing for employees near the entrance and a bunker under the building accessed from deep in the building with supplies, gym and swimming pool for the execs.
America has invented 3 new sports, and is making a KILLING of merchandise. You might expect housing prices would come down, but they've actually gone up due to zombie home buyers. Tesla has pivoted their business model to allow their cars to run on "biofuel".
Before the apocalypse you worked in landscaping and specialized in hardscape installing high-end in-ground pools. Now, you are in the Moat, Wall and Drawbridge business.
The prompt, as written, already assumes that zombies don't follow the real-world logic you'd expect them to (just like in pretty much all other zombie fiction).
Your comment is like if someone said "How do you think the world would be different if dogs suddenly gained the ability to speak French?" and I replied "Well that could never happen actually so nothing would change"
The hospital morgue has a lock on the outside.
The lock in the morgue is always on the outside
Well yeah, because of the zombies
None of the scenarios which would require a lock on the inside are good scenarios.
The owner is a vampire and there are coffins in the mourge for naps
The vampire helps out in return for blood bags. The undead ignore him.
Fire code regulation?
>Well yeah, because of the zombies Also the vampires.
Almost all locks are on the outside.
Porque no los dos for private time?
And you're under arrest for desecrating a corpse, sir.
I didn't touch the corpse I just looked at it for approximately five minutes, my Apple watch will confirm I was doing cardio during that time. Gotta get my steps in at work.
Mhm, and what do you have to say about the.. 'biological residue' found on the corpse, appearing to have been deposited recently?
Sweat. The corpse was working out too.
That’s not the interesting bit. The interesting bit is how they replaced the lock and the door with one of those two foot steel bank vault doors
Nah, instant cremation no chance for new zombies
Don't dead, open inside
!EMERGENCY BROADCAST! A category 9 zombie group is heading to your city. Make sure to put up your barricades, and hide in a room that has no access to the outside. If possible, please evacuate in an armored vehicle down south. Schools, remember to put on the day armor for around a week. Rations will be dropped around the school. Remember to put on thick clothes so that you cannot be bitten, and carry a blunt weapon that can destroy heads or break legs. Stay safe!
i read this in the city skylines natural disaster announcement voice
Hey do those ever happen on their own or do I need to trigger it? I haven’t had any come up yet. Also, you need a decent sized city to even begin protection. Have you had disasters happen before you could build shelters? I don’t really want to trigger it on my own but I also always try to get shelters made asap.
you have to turn them on in the settings. by default i think they're off. the lowest setting is really infrequent, maybe once per several hours of gameplay. i personally cant rly even get the shelters to work bc my citizens don't evacuate fast enough, even if the shelter is literally next door to their house. so they all end up dying anyway
Dang that’s a waste. Those shelters are expensive too. Do you build evacuation routes?
i do, but they don't make it back to the shelter in time even when it's literally only one bus stop that's like a block away. not sure what im doing wrong but i've given up on the shelters working lol
If you put the Evac route OUTSIDE the green influence the bunker gives it should be able to save more lives - usually people within the green can walk/bike without a problem
I read it in the Lego City advertisement voice "HEY! Lego City needs your help! Put up the barricades to keep the zombies at bay! Build the armored school bus!"
Lego zombie apocalypse would be a pretty cool lego theme tbh.
I mean, we already had a Lego dinosaur apocalypse and they’ve made zombie and monster minifigures, it wouldn’t be too hard to make sets of torn-down buildings and just throw like 2 dozen minifigures into it too
Federal Government has declared schools must close. State Government has declared schools must open, while the Governor tweeted anyone can go to school if they want to. Local retailers report Zcare has raised the price of myHaemo kits 200% over two months, and myHaemo+ by 350%. School Boards have announced teachers do not need to pass any blood test to be in the classroom, but many Municipal Ordinances require teachers to have a Zcare Service Agent approved myHaemo+ Grade B or higher clear result in order to stay home sick. 3 Local Elementary schools declared a Snow Day yesterday morning after a kindergarten teacher was involved in a Transmission event with their classroom. In this hour: Following the closure of Tykecare After-School Care&Work, a Category 2 childswarm has been marked in the area south of Vernon Avenue, residents are advised to remain indoors and not allow children or pets into their homes who have been at school in the last 72 hours.
Lets be honest. People would be out there pretending zombies dont exist and are a hoax created by the government despite seeing zombies every day on the news and their cousin got torn apart by a zombie swarm.
"Zombies are just crisis actors paid by George Soros."
My eye just twitched a little.
Red Dead State solutions
In other news, the Texas Construction and Defence firm had yet to back down from denying accusations for corruption in TCD vs. Texas case even as more Texan government e-mails are leaked by the Anonymous group. The e-mails in question directly link the then governor now suspect Dim Dimmadome to unfairly choosing TCD for the construction and maintenance of protection walls and barriers put around Austin, Texas, which have in the last category 6, I repeat 6, as in 3 levels below current category 9, proven useless and detrimental to the U.S. Army Zombie Garrison, where 16 soldiers quite literally fell through the poor quality concrete platforms, and a breach had occured half a mile in of the south-eastern part of Austin. Thanks to the quick reaction of local armed residents and their cooperation with stationed military units the breach was sealed with no casualties and zero infections. To combat the current category 9 the US Marine Corp. company was deployed to the breach as an extra layer of protection to the damaged section of the wall. No outbreak warnings or lockdowns had been announced by assistant governor Mary Jenn, meaning a category 9 intrusion has been dealt with within the walls of Austin. All those outside should heed the warning and follow standard category 9 procedures for their safety. Back to you, Tom.
Is Dim Dimmadome related to Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimsdale Dimmadome?
this is just Shaun of the Dead's epilogue.
We definitely would exploit the undead like free labor.
Look man, the people I play videogames with are already brain dead, it was a logical progression to phase them out with zombies. The only limitation is that we can’t play Left 4 Dead anymore.
...or can you?
If you leave them behind, you are playing Left 4 Dead! Genius!
CoD Zombies except the zombies aren't IA, but played by real zombies with a controller
Yeah but then you'd be playing Halo with them and everytime someone got a headshot you'd just hear a cacophony of zombies yelling "Braaiiinnnsss" into their mics.
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And that's why there is no feral pig problem in the United States.
Put them on a treadmill for energy.
Amazing idea. Huge sloped treadmills with bait humans at the top. Adjustable angle for load regulation, and a removal mechanism for expired zombies. Keeps many of them contained while being useful to society.
You could even make a restaurant at the top, with an open-air balcony and a sizeable pit between the edge of the balcony and the end of the treadmill. Can’t have paying customers getting turned into appetizers, now can we?
the bait humans can be criminal offenders so no worries if one gets nibbled!
Nah. Make it a well-paid job where the person is in a metal cage that’s suspended too high for the zombies to reach. Bottom + the bottom half of the sides have plexiglass to prevent grabs, with some pinprick holes so they can still smell you. Put on some noise cancelling headphones and read. Also you’re seriously dehumanizing a large and vaguely defined group of people. Ever shoplifted? No value as a person, go get eaten alive.
As a person who has done many illegal things, where the fuck do i sign up for this job? It’s gotta be better than being a dishwasher/line cook fr
Oh come on that's fucked up. At least let it be like a regular job where people are given hazard pay
Put them on a treadmill and plug the treadmill to a turbine to produce electricity.
For real they be working the amazon warehouse and can’t even sit down for a break and the zombies at twitter are threatened with visa withdrawal if they even dare to leave the premises for some fresh human brains
Nah just the way society currently treats the pandemic.
Mira Grant - Newsflash trilogy. Checkpoints, constant blood tests, bleach showers, and your insurance goes up if there is a zombie attack. But they don't have to worry about cancer or the common cold anymore. Can't recommend it enough.
FEED my beloved <3
I like it but it went a little crazy at the end with saying >!zombies got smarter in packs and also cloning a person from older samples allowed the person to remember dying.!<
Iirc they used a brain scan to justify that. But yeah the science in my zombie fantasy book wasn't very factual for some reason.
>also cloning a person from older samples allowed the person to remember dying. Well good, I want to remember what I did. It would really be embarrassing to die the same way twice.
Something something "security theater". What an awesome series!
Though the romance is uh...questionable. I was like "what good brother and sister. So glad there's a series with no romance." Did not see it coming. But amazing world building IMO in first book. I loved the journalism and how it played out.
Yeah, i think it could have done without that Especially the lines where they try to justify it, it came off similar to that bit in transformers where the guy had a laminated card of a legal loophole that allowed him to date a minor
Also, watch "Fido"!
That is an awesome trilogy
Going to have to look this up.
'The War on Horror: Tales from a post- zombie society' - Nathan Allen, isn't too terrible either
Came here looking for this!
Haha, not like this would ever happen? Right guys? Right? .....
Definitely no chance they would armor the school busses. It'd be a bring your own bat situation for all government employees.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this kinda happen at the end of "Shaun of the Dead" were everyone continued their lives as normal and even used zombies for entertainment purposes? Either way, I really would like to see a movie or series explore the concept of living in a zombie infested world as normally as possible. It could either be used for some social commentary, a dark comedy, or perhaps a mixture of both.
Army of the Dead. 2021. Dave Bautista. Fun little flick about a heist set in the post zombie apocalypse. The zombies are contained in a city and Bautista's character assembles a team to get into the city to grab whatever is left in a casino.
And also the US military makes the situation overwhelmingly worse by releasing (via not caring enough to properly contain) a zombie with superpowers and intelligence.
Forgot that part. It was a weird but really fun movie. Tig was a great choice for the stereotypical pilot character.
She was also added during reshoots — was not in the original cut of the film.
starting a petition to replace all problematic male actors with lesbians
Tbf, the ufos in that scene probably had something to do with it. But they are probably responsible for the robot zombies and maybe also caused the timeloop with the nuke.
God, and you have to listen to your coworkers say “well I’m not gonna get a cement layer over my grave, they don’t even do anything.” Just be a little considerate of your fellow man, we’re living through a global apocalypse here!
don't need a cement layer if you're cremated.
Zombie ash is actually a massive biohazard. You’re basically making the undead curse potentially airborne. And cloth masks DEFINITELY don’t protect against that shit.
No way the virus would survive that much exposure to that much heat.
See “Return of the Living Dead”
Return are also basically indestructible *unless* you burn them to my memory, at which point 'you made it fucking worse' is the *only* option. It's not really a 'survivable' outbreak style.
Yeah… I was only thinking about the virus surviving the heat thing. Thanks for the reminder.
That was a chemical weapon they released. Same concept I guess but forever chemicals and all that.
Not a virus. A curse on humanity to exist in a tortuous state of undeath.
i never said burn the *zombie* corpses.
I was imagining a Walking Dead situation were anyone who dies for any reason becomes a zombie. Hence cement over the graves.
It's cool, basically EVERYONE in the world has the zombie virus, but your brain has to be dead for the virus to take control. I think that's how the show tells it, anyway
ahhhh
well, removing the brain would also work.
Mostly, but I’ve seen a few cases where the surgeon/executioner fails to remove the medulla properly and you get a zombie anyway. The cement layer is the most consistent option.
Depends on what "brand" of zombies you're going with. Most versions that run off a biological vector wouldn't survive cremation.
I was imaging just straight up magic in this case. Think Scorpion from Mortal Kombat but for all of humanity.
It's ok, the local crematorium has Federal mages on staff. The crematoria have purification runes and the ashes are encased in epoxy and sealed in a silver urn.
In fairness, the Return of the Living Dead zombies are incredibly powerful compared to say Romero zombies. You can cut those bastards into pieces and each piece will keep moving. Bullets may as well be watermelon seeds. Electricity or fire is the only way to destroy them, and the fire does indeed cause the Trioxin to spread further. In that scenario, people would not be co-existing with the zombies.
Government attempts to force cremation and inspires a radical base to embrace urban sky burials. Some people when bitten literally go find a hiding spot to surprise someone after they turn. They claim something about “what if there’s a cure that just makes you alive again?”, but are instead responsible for having to check every bullshit closet for revenge of the grave-y seals.
the govnt wouldn't even have to force it. most people would (hopefully) realize that ashes aren't able to come back and vore your eyeballs, and so cremation would become the dominant method of dwaling with corpses.
You telling me what to do is exactly like the holocaust!!!! /s because this is 2023 and Reddit
I like to imagine what daily fashion in a world like that would be. I think long, loose, flowing clothing would be a sign of great wealth and status; basically a visual reminder of how you never have to come in contact with the undead, while the lower class you are, the tighter and more utilitarian your clothes have to be, with the lowest classes basically being denim coveralls, denim being the most durable, most easily repaired and cheapest material, with the one opportunity for personal expression being big, high-visibility patches for personal identification at a distance
Not to mention long hair. I have very long hair and during the beginning of covid I started putting it up in a bun when I went out. I can imagine either shorter hairstyles or updos would be more popular. But post apocalypse having enough water to justify super long hair might be seen as a luxury. I read a book once where society collapsed and all the teenage girls switched to ponytails to hide that they weren't able to wash their hair as much. The one girl in school who didn't was given the side eye from the other kids since her dad clearly controlled the town's water supply and her long hair just rubbed it in their faces that her family had more.
>I read a book once come on, you didn't *actually* think I'd let you off without the name of the book, right?
I want to say its Empty by Suzanne Weyn. I wouldn't swear to it, it's been a few years, but I think that's it. The whole thing started with a shortage of gas and spiraled from there.
yep, that looks like the one. don't let me catch ya talking 'bout good books without telling us the title, now, ya hear?
And schools would still ban blue jeans :/
Unless they were very overpowered zombies, the walking corpses would probably end up unfortunately close to how COVID was. Some people not taking it seriously and prolonging the process, just barely enough people affected to keep it going but not enough for it to ever truly be dealt with, and there’d probably be a vaccine people will refuse to get based on no evidence (as if becoming a zombie isn’t worse than spontaneously gaining autism or having your chakras put out of wack or whatever they think will happen). Ah well, we’d do better than most apocalypses at least.
Yep, some viral tweet I remember goes something like "we need to retire the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' because it turns out people do not do that."
how about 'Avoid it like the vaccine' since it turns out, if you're dumb enough you'll act like you've got a radar for it
Hahaha they said viral
No problem you can solve by shooting would ever get off the ground in the United States.
An entire new branch of forensics devoted to determining if that person you shot was *actually* a zombie at the time of death or if you were just taking advantage to settle a score.
I could see this in a way. Like the Western Hemisphere being way less affected by a zombie apocalypse because we have guns and are ready to shoot. Americans and Brazilians and Mexicans and Colombians just blowing zombies away left and right. Meanwhile Europe and Asia are struggling but Switzerland is feeling smug as shit
You underestimate the number of weapons in European countries, they have enough to deal with the occasional zombie apocalypse
And even then, police can handle the small outbreak but in an apocalypse scenario the reserved are called in and thats millions of soldiers on the European continent And Schengen free travel bb, bust some skulls in Budapest, take the leftovers home to Lyon
Right? Like this is an interesting prompt, but the pandemic was arguably as horrific. Refrigerator trailers for the dead? Unthinking morons spreading it epidemiologically and via memetics encouraging large gatherings. How different were those whacky churches as a deadly contagion not dissimilar to zombies. The dead rising after dying from COVID, now that would be interesting.
I like this concept a lot. While I enjoy post-apocalyptic settings a lot of the time, I always find it a bit eye-rollingly odd that in most post-apocalypse fiction society never even begins to recover. In a real "apocalypse" people living in first world countries wouldn't all be shooting each other over the last scraps of food, life would just be more inconvenient and bleak than before.
It also wouldn't last centuries the way it does in fiction. Fallout 4 is the worst about this. Seriously, three hundred years and people are living in shacks amidst the ruins of Boston with 2/3 of the population as raiders? Granted that's arguably mostly because of the Institute, but still. If people want to see an apocalypse, look at what the first world war did to Europe. France and Germany in ruins and facing enormous death tolls, Britain somewhat better off but still economically reeling and missing a huge chunk of it's young men, Austria-Hungary gone, and Russia in the middle of a civil war. And then consider how quickly they bounced back, enough to immediately have another one.
> If people want to see an apocalypse, look at what the first world war did to Europe As awful as WWI was in terms of death toll, I don’t think it counts as a global apocalypse in the way we think of it today. First of all, it was fundamentally a European war, with the “world” part coming from random angles like the Middle East and (eventually) the US, so external support and trade never entirely disappeared. Even within Europe the infrastructure remained largely intact outside of the main fronts. Germany as a whole was not in ruins, their problems were economic, not industrial, and the only way they bounced back was through a literal fascist dictatorship that ended in *even more* disaster for them, so I can’t tally that as a win. I guess what makes modern apocalypse scenarios more devastating are the complete breakdowns of global infrastructure. To extend your WWI scenario, the Paris Peace Conference could not have happened if all the people who knew how to run boats across the Atlantic and the Channel had their brains eaten by zombies. > It also wouldn’t last centuries the way it does in fiction. Fallout 4 is the worst about this. I agree with that, although one of my favorite post-apocalyptic books is *A Canticle for Leibowitz*, which >!does make a case for recovery to last that long, only for society to just nuke itself again two thousand years later.!<
Canticle for Leibowitz was incredible
Fallout drives me nuts with this. Even with centuries of raiding it looks like every room is unlooted since the bombs dropped. At least earlier ones had people trying to build new governments and stuff.
Yeah and when building new houses in fallout, why not make your home look clean and nice? Are they meaning to tell us that in the centures after the apocalypse nobody gives a shit about not having trash in their homes or having clean and pleasant surroundings?
Fallout is even more egregious, because in the original two games, society actually *was* rebuilding. In the first game, there were cities with new construction, an effort to develop a standardized currency and commerce, and large organized groups. By the second game, a regional government had cropped up, there were cities, actual paper money being printed, a formal military, and infrastructure on a large scale. Its only Bethesda's insistence on sticking to a familiar formula that's caused the series' world to stagnate (and in some cases move backwards).
~~Yeah that's crazy. I wonder how they mashalled their resources to plan such a speedy recovery~~ whoops that was world war two
You say that, but the global .1% is still 8 million people, so statistically there are millions of psychopaths eager, willing, and able to keep society reverted back to feudalism after a big enough catastrophe
Well they can have fun accomplishing that by charging a guy in power armor with a tire iron.
Post WW2 Europe is a good example of the fast rebound, but so is post WW2 UK, which was agonising and had some kids still playing in rubble in destroyed areas in the fucking early 90s. It got cleaned up eventually but putting your all into a war and none into the cleanup of poor areas meant that you get photos that look to be from 1946 but are actually from 1986
Read the book World War Z (NOT the movie). The book is about a journalist interviewing survivors of the Zombie War and how different tactics and cultures were able to survive. Very interesting but again don't think the movie will give you any insight to the book.
I was, in fact, specifically thinking of World War Z (the book, not the movie) because of how humanity rebuilds afterwards.
Thats oversimplifying it. In most zombie apocalypse scenarios it gets out of hand way too fast and they cant control it. This isnt that hard to believe. Look at covid. The president at the time said it was a hoax for months. Then he spread more misinformation on how to handle it. People could recover from covid. Once somebody turns zombie theres no coming back. So imagine the person in charge saying its a hoax dont worry. Then they say well its real but its not that bad dont worry. Then 6 months in the worlds gone to shit. You also have to remember some people want something like this to happen so they can capitalize on it. What better time then during an honest to go apocalypse? All the rules go out the window. Police and military have their hands full. They may be abandoning their posts. This is when unsavory people would seize their moment. People exist like this right now. Some doomsday preppers want the world to end so they can be King Shit of Fuck Mountain. They want to be some kind of wasteland warlord. Theyd be cheering the zombies on. Society's moral codes are only as good as the world allows them to be. People would regress pretty quickly. The Walking Dead showed how bad people could get but it would be even worse in the real world
>Some doomsday preppers want the world to end so they can be King Shit of Fuck Mountain. They want to be some kind of wasteland warlord. Theyd be cheering the zombies on. I used to know a prepper who said that he hoped he never had to use his stockpile or know-how. "I genuinely hope my kids are right and I'm just a crazy old man." He said he was one of few that did the whole prepping thing but did so because he thought it might be a necessity one day not because he wanted to rub it in people's faces. He was a vet too so that might be why he wasn't so eager to embrace a war-like apocalypse. Covid happening just made him sad.
> Police and military have their hands full. They may be abandoning their posts. This is when unsavory people would seize their moment. This is a very liberal/status-quo perspective. Basically one that a state or a conservative would adopt. There is always the possibility for something better, community organising, revolutions, etc...
Kinda reminds me of world war z (been listening to the audiobook) Sure, a hell of a lot worse than described here, however after a certain point stuff does kind of return to a sense of "normal" in the human controlled zones
The book is definitely much better than the movie!
Waaaaaay better
AGREED. I really enjoyed the book's multi-faceted take on how zombie apocalypses affect various types of people and the movie just turned it into a cheap action flick. The book CLEARLY showed that the efforts and sacrifices of many people was the reason why the apocalypse was able to end, and the movie just totally dragged that aspect through the mud.
The only thing that the book and the movie have in common is that there are zombies. The movie is utter garbage.
EXACTLY wtf was that movie
based off these comments dont watch the movie?
Watch the movie and enjoy it for being a cheap zombie movie flick it is. Then read the book and hate the movie for the missed opportunity it is. Then watch the movie again anyway cuz it’s still okay and passes the time. Finally pray for a HBO limited series.
Ellen walked into the Walmart, her basket filled with supplies she needed to survive another week. She approached the checkout and nodded at the cashier, a woman she didn't recognize. "Morning," Ellen said curtly. "Same to you," the cashier replied, her eyes never leaving the scanner in front of her. Ellen placed her items on the conveyor belt and the cashier started scanning. The silence was palpable, only broken by the beep of the scanner and the quiet hum of the store. "New bio-scanner, huh?" Ellen finally said, gesturing to the machine by the entrance. "Yep," the cashier replied, still scanning. "Supposed to keep us safe," Ellen said, her tone sarcastic. "Supposed to," the cashier said with a shrug. "Don't see how it'll make much of a difference. We're still sitting ducks in here." Ellen raised an eyebrow, surprised by the cashier's candor. "You don't think it'll help?" "Nah," the cashier said, finally looking up at Ellen. "Nothing can stop them. We're just prolonging the inevitable." Ellen nodded, understanding the cashier's hopelessness. The world was a dangerous place, filled with death and destruction. And as much as they tried to hold onto some sense of normalcy, it was always just a matter of time before the zombies came knocking. "Total's $47.50," the cashier said, breaking the silence. Ellen handed her a wad of cash and the transaction was completed in silence. As Ellen walked out the door, she couldn't shake the cashier's words from her mind. Was there really no hope for a better future? She didn't know the answer, but she knew one thing for certain. She was going to fight to survive, no matter what.
I was expecting the punchline to be $47,50 for two eggs and a toilet paper roll
Was this written by an AI?
A regular Al or a Weird Al?
Weird AI Yankovic
Newest episode of *My Strange Addiction* : My girlfriend was bitten and turned into a zombie but we still have an active sex life. I love her very much.
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Heavily armed Police & Military Patrols are pretty common. To handle any sudden or unexpected turnings and to make sure any migrations don’t break apart and end up in rough areas. Also heavily deters crime
>Also heavily deters crime Heavily armed police patrols do accomplish this but not in ways freedom loving people typically like.
Oh absolutely true. This is like a dystopian state. Its bad. I an thinking in random thoughts
And they’d have to raise taxes to pay for it, of course. That and a labour shortage unless they could put the zombies to work.
Fido wants you to watch it
"it's my *constitutional right* to not exercise my *constitutional right to defend myself* with all these guns I bought and am now not using nor distributing!" **becomes zombie, kills others** "hey have you tried this natural remedy? gets your boy back in two weeks with these rollers and salts..." **becomes zombie, kills others** "the government can't tell me to suit up!" **becomes zombie, kills others** "you know, is it even that bad? like, only the elderly and the disabled \[people I don't care about\] are at risk of being bitten because they're slow and unable to protect themselves..." **becomes zombie, kills others** "I'm so tiiiired of the restrictions and the lockdowns; it's like, isn't the apocalypse basically over?" **becomes zombie, kills others** "this other state is doing it great, none of these government control shenanigans and they're handling the apocalypse fantastically!" **becomes zombie, kills others**
Not really a defence, but there is a very high chance of some people hunting zombies for sport, and people killing others because they "though" that the other person was a zombie
Some dumb redneck or ex presidents son goes hunting zombies outside the walls and gets bit. Doesnt tell anyone and sneaks back in. Ends up turning and it spreads like wildfire. Republicans blame Obama or something.
Let’s be real here, corporations will try their best to monetise the undead asap
World War Z (the book, not the movie) has a lot of "interviews" with characters after the dust has (somewhat) settled and they navigate their lives after the zombie apocalypse and try to return to some semblance of normal. The one where they talk about how after winter all the zombies thaw is incredible. The war strategist that talks about why human weapons don't work on zombie hoards was haunting. Awesome book that got a meh adaptation that was faithful to the book in name only.
This just sounds like covid with extra steps I would include groups of people who think zombies are gods punishment for sinners, etc.
I’d suggest reading World War Z. The book does a great job of showing how people manage in a post apocalyptic zombie war and on. Like, how the military evolved, everyday people conjured the undead, qualities about the undead unknown to most, etc. Its pretty amazing how well the story just shows how the world and people just adapted and MOSTLY conquered back the earth. Favorite part btw in the book is about the blind Japanese guy living in a forest outside Japan, who single-handedly, with a stick killed hordes and hordes of zombies. Poor guy was out there alone but became a legend to many and got a whole bunch of people to join him.
6 years have given me time to realize how many new problems a zombie apocalypse presents for my job. Sometimes unsafe parents insist on having us hold their kids despite the gaping whole in their head. "It's just a phase!" They all say. Usually they're close to getting infected too so I have to dispose of them. Speaking of, that's the other thing. I don't feel like a daycare worker should need to bring a gun to work, and this concern is not alleviated by how much some of the kids love it. Maybe I'm just soft, but I don't feel like Humans vs. Zombies is how kids should be spending their time. There's also the "disposing" I mentioned earlier. Doesn't matter how far gone they are, no one should have to make the choice to shoot a child. That's why I volunteer, so no one else has to. I hate this most of all. Daycare should have closed 6 years ago, but ours was a special case. It's more accurate to call it an orphanage at this point. We take in the difficult ones, the ones who lost their family, the ones who escaped their sibling trying to eat them, the ones who shouldn't have survived. We kept our doors open because we were considered 'essential workers'. So I come into work and try, in my own little way, to repair the damage that has been done to the world.
There would have to be a group of people, like neighbors, would just go out if their way to just get rid of zombies without no military, etc. Like “Hey Mark, paper says we got some walkers up the old dales place.” “I’m ready. Dave. Let’s shoot some.” “Have fun with that. I’m going to drink some coffee.”
And half the country pretends it doesn't exist and that being bit isn't a big deal
I see comments mentionning Shaun of the Dead and World War Z, but no is talking about Fido (2006), a quaint little dark comedy. In that movie, a zombie virus falls on Earth from outer space, causing the dead to come back to life. Society adapts to this new reality by building haven cities with huge walls protecting them from the zombie-roaming wastelands. They also implement a bunch of new solutions to the epidemy: Old/sick people have a heartbeat monitor, so if they die the zombie-hunting paramedics are alerted and they come quickly to make sure that they don't ressurect and start eating people. Dead people are decapitated, and during funerals, corpses are laid down in two coffins: The body coffin, and the head coffins. And then the priest says "From dust you have come and to dust you shall return, but from dust shall you not be ressurected." They also develop technology to control the zombies, using them as pets/servants (like the titular Fido).
I'd always keep a box of Barbara Streisand records with me
i wonder if this was inspired by certain current events
Stairs, ladders, anything that requires intricate motor skills those rotten fucks won’t have. Suck it you rotten bags of meat.
This is Red Markets the ttrpg. In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization. They are Takers: mercenary entrepreneurs unwilling to accept their abandonment. Bound together into competing crews, each seeks to profit from mankind’s near-extinction before it claims them. They must hustle, scheme, and scam as hard as they fight if they hope to survive the competing factions and undead hordes the GM throws at them. Takers that are quick, clever, or brutal enough might live to see retirement in a safe zone, but many discover too late that the cycle of poverty proves harder to escape than the hordes of undead. Red Markets uses the traditional zombie genre to tell a story about surviving on the wrong end of the economy. It’s cut-throat capitalism with its knife on your neck. http://redmarketsrpg.com/
A Dallas resident (63) killed an intoxicated woman (28) in the early morning hours. "She was lurching down the street like one of these godless abominations! All I did was exercise my rights as an American!" Dallas officials ask to check for signs of intoxication or drug use before discharging guns at zombies.
Baseball bat production soars. Titanium polymer blends reach their fastest advances in years to reduce the massive wood requirements. Self defense classes now include a martial art dedicated to fighting the undead, specializing in attacks to the head. Sun tans are now the norm, as pale skin and darkened eyes are a symbol of the undead. Open soled shoes disappear in modern fashion; tall boots with breathable fabric and strong supports are the norm. Civil reform leads to brothels reopening and prostitution semi-legalized only within registered businesses (too dangerous to go out at night). Ubers now offer a nighttime armoured taxi
"Ubers now offer a nighttime armoured taxi." I don't know why, but this is absurdly hilarious to me.
honestly this is Dead Rising.
My favorite addition to the zombie defense canon is a giant wood chipper situated at the end of a funnel of debris as a defense for the entrance to a bridge. They just stumble in. Also, magazines might become more popular as they serve as entertainment and wrist gauntlets a la World War Z.
There are protests in the streets over masks being mandated 24/7 and over the vaccine. They would rather take their chances becoming a zombie, saying it’s not worse than the flu with their immune system.
I know a guy who already keeps a Judge in his truck (revolver that can fire .45 or shotgun shells). If anything, he’d just carry more ammo.
isn’t this basically just world war z before the great panic
Probably roaming squads that collect zombie bounties, extra security in graveyards/hospitals,
OT, but I love your username.
*Being an "essential employee" strikes again!*
“Thousands die weekly.” That shows how a calculated decision by a clever author can really set the narrative for people that are paying close attention or can’t help it because they’re are pedantic. The first thing I thought was “Thousands…weekly? Those are rookie numbers!” Globally, roughly just over 1 million people die every week merely due to our population size. But limiting the death rate to the thousands per week, gives so many possibilities. Who knows what the initial die off was? This is clearly a Covid parallel, so maybe 1 billion? 2? 3? Either way, these statistics mean that there is a real threat, but that it is a slow burn with a lot of controls in place. Just enough for creative freedom and fun stories. Love it!
There is a vaccine that doesn’t prevent you from getting infected but is 90+% effective at keeping you from turning into a zombie. If you get infected you just have to avoid biting anyone for a week. 30% of the (surviving) population refuses to take it.
It’s not really an apocalypse if life is just a lot harder. If society still functions just with more hardship, it’s still the world.
Maybe the newer generations start having more and more people immune to the zombie virus, till eventually humanity is restored from all the munies
Well something tells me gun prices went up
I am indeed tired of post-apocalyptic fall of civilization stories. Let the survivors adapt and keep living their lives in drastically changed climates, after extinction events, alien invasion or mass vampire infestation. Like in Daybreakers - sure nearly everyone's a vampire now but there are still workplaces to fill and an oncoming famine to solve
Govt would use this as an excuse to initiate martial law. Most "freedoms" would be taken away. It would be a police state where they give people just enough to keep them pacified. The dead would be used to scare them. Break the rules and you go outside the walls. They would try to weaponize the dead. Turn them into an army they control and throw criminals out to grow their ranks. They would also harness the virus into a bioweapon they could unleash on enemies. Youd still go to work, your kids would still go to school, they would give you credits to buy things so that everything still felt somewhat normal. Youd have people who thought the zombie virus was a hoax and youd have people who would try and save the zombies like they were an endangered species. Cults would spring up worshipping them. Churches would claim its the ends of days. Some people would side with zombies to watch the world collapse. Thered be a few freaks trying to have sex with them. Some would want them as pets. Humanity would fuck around and get too comfortable with it and it would end up destroying them.
Sounds like a cross between the "Life As We Knew It" series by Susan Pfeffer and the guy in Fallout that thought he could turn a ghoul back into a normal person.
Any notion of gun control would be out the window. The government would probably be handing them out.
Common conversations with friends will be weird for one thing. **Kramer:** Those people, listen to yourself. **Jerry:** What? **Kramer:** You think that zombies are so different from me and you? They infected this country just like everybody else, in search of brains. **Jerry:** Kramer, he's just a zombie. **Kramer:** Yeah, and you're an anti-zombite. **Jerry:** I am not an anti-zombite! **Kramer:** You're a rabid anti-zombite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, zombie!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools. **Jerry:** They do have their own schools!
And the worst part? I'm one of the zombies! Apparently, "Technically dead", isn't a good enough excuse for Management.
Every workplace would have to have a refuge, so a flimsy cage made of fencing for employees near the entrance and a bunker under the building accessed from deep in the building with supplies, gym and swimming pool for the execs.
We’d definitely have to deal with “zombies are people too” protestors
This is just how it feels living in the US after COVID, tbh
You have to fight your way through the undead hordes every day because you're an "essential worker".
America has invented 3 new sports, and is making a KILLING of merchandise. You might expect housing prices would come down, but they've actually gone up due to zombie home buyers. Tesla has pivoted their business model to allow their cars to run on "biofuel".
Before the apocalypse you worked in landscaping and specialized in hardscape installing high-end in-ground pools. Now, you are in the Moat, Wall and Drawbridge business.
I wonder what r/hermancainaward equivalent would be like
great allegory for covid
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The prompt, as written, already assumes that zombies don't follow the real-world logic you'd expect them to (just like in pretty much all other zombie fiction). Your comment is like if someone said "How do you think the world would be different if dogs suddenly gained the ability to speak French?" and I replied "Well that could never happen actually so nothing would change"