Guess this is an ad hoc poll for where on the spectrum would you be on the zombie apocalypse, but I do expect halo effect to alter the results.

The question is would you be hostile or friendly to other survivors you come across if they had no recourse for their actions

The main assumption is that You have the inherent resistance to the plague so that way you can you can start in a heavily populated area and make your way out or live in there.

I would be curious if people would hide away for the rest of their lives in a cabin in the woods.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • Jerb322@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      Yeah interesting to see old age would affect people’s outlook of the apocalypse. I’d like to think the older I get the more I’d look more to the future and leaving the a legacy even in a shitty cataclysm

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    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…

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      I forgot to add an assumption that there would be plenty of food and resources since their would be empty houses with food in them at people’s time of death. You could be the 1 survivor in 50 or 1 in 1000 so like you’re gonna get enough food for years to come. Of course there’s farms that might be planted that will be ready for harvest.

      It’s weird to think you can invade a power plant and raid the fridge.

      You could take on a small structure and move up to a small town then cities once you’re conditioned.

      But that’s just me musing

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      Fortunately, a samurai is probably better equipped to handle the undead than the average person.

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 days ago

      Yeah I’d try to bring power back to whatever survivors are left so that fridges could run to preserve food longer. It’s funny to think we would start to like each other when we start sharing expertise

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      I’d be weird and leave radios for people to find and then have them contact me from a distance

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    32·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    I’ll probably just kill myself. It’s either get killed by a zombie and become a zombie or die on my own terms and spare the world from my undead corpse.

    Also, a zombie apocalypse isn’t going to “end” when the majority of the population are already zombies (which are functionally immortal given that they’re already dead) so there’s nothing to look forward to afterward. Like exactly zero zombie apocalypse stories have any sort of end game where the minority human survivors win or even how they could conceivably win. What am I living for then? To spend a decade or two starving, afraid, paranoid of everyone living and dead, and surviving just for the sake of surviving? Fuck that, I choose death. Survivors of even the nuclear apocalypse have something to live for because it can still get better with time and humanity might still have a chance to rebuild, but not a supernatural apocalypse orchestrated by forces literally beyond our rational and scientific comprehension.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      8 days ago

      I don’t think starving would be a big issue because everyone would have food in their house and we have plenty of domesticated plants and animals that can produce way more food per plant that was possible 20,000 years ago. Fear would be a constant since theirs zombies and the lack of humans would mean nature takes over and scary animal make a rebound.

      To put an optimist spin on zombie apocalypse, if you struggle paying off a car then we’ll it stops and you’d have hundreds of cars at your disposal just to test, you’d have all the buildings materials your ever need, you could Milky way at night, pick up any hobby and get good at it. Personally I like to see that I could rebuild society get electricity back up again.