Tips to Survive the Upcoming Zombie Apocalypse
The folks over at NerdBastards.com obviously have the undead on the brain, for they recently culled a list of the top ten ways to survive the upcoming living people buffet. That’s good news if you are a member of the very inclusive living dead. It’s bad news if you are reading this.
Of course, running my own zombie site, I have to raise my complaints to a couple of different items. On the section about clothing, the author mentions:
BE SMART. Wear athletic style clothes that are somewhat tight fitting and make sure you are in shape. Play it safe and try not to be a dumbass.
While athletic clothing may make for agile movement, it does little to nothing in terms of protection. Seriously. If all it takes is one bite to send you to your doom, you’ll want to wear protective clothing that isn’t heavy enough to be cumbersome but it will protect you from gaping jaws. I think leather would do quite nicely. Granted, you might look like, er, interesting and you might find a new liking to the Village People, but you’ll be protected from zombie bites which is better than being a zombie in running shorts.
If you have a loved one that is infected it is vital that you immediately dispose of them. It will hurt, bad. But if you want to survive this is what it takes. I’m not saying that you should say you think your little sister got bitten and use that as an excuse to shoot her, but if it is a legitimate threat then you must take care of it.
I’m in the camp that tries to everything possible to save my loved ones. Even if I know they will die and come back for my brain, I would take steps to protect my love one and deal with the zombie after they died. After all, what’s the point in surviving if you are going destroy the very reason for your survival? Granted, it makes good pragmatic sense to chuck the dying person out the window, but you’d be less of a “human” for doing so. Mind you, I might not last long in such an apocalypse, but I’d be dying on my terms (Ironically enough, I argued just the opposite in another article, but it’s a little different when you replace “faceless survivor” with wife or daughter).
‘Nuff said … check it out and tell me what you think. Did they miss anything?
Top 10 Things You NEED To Know In Order To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse! (nerdbastards.com <- new window)
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Not terribly accurate. At all.
Slings are a good anti zombie weapon? Really?
Mind you, the M4-M26 picture was pretty much awesome.
Modern slingshots, like the Daisy Powershot, can do quite a bit with a piece of gravel or a .50 cal ball bearing, enough to knock out a human. It is hard to run out of gravel, and doesn’t ID your location like a firearm.
Otherwise, the suggestions were lame derivitives of Max Brooks.
K so i agree with u on the 1st point, but as for the 2nd point i agree more with them. if a loved one is infected, say a quick goodbye, and blow their brains out (if u r lucky enough to have a gun, but if u don’t u will probably be dead already anyways). granted u want to be sure u do it somewhere where u don’t have to clean it up, preferably outdoors. also be forewarned that any gunshot is likely to attract attention to your position, so keep that in mind.
Meh. idk. There seem to be as many “experts” as there are alphamales who are into zombies.
When it comes to clothing I suppose the best thing to wear would be the same clothes you would use for camping and living outside. I would think the capability to move a better defense than armoring yourself up.
I would have to say I am on the side of eliminating every threat to your survival. If a family member is infected with no possible cure and they will turn into one of those things then it’s time to do what is necessary for the survival of the group. As distasteful as it is you will have to make tough decisions in order to make it out alive. I disagree that it would make you less human. Whoever survives IS humanity, so there you go.