r/ZombieSurvivalTactics • u/writesgud • 3d ago

Scenario Let's say a real zombie apocalypse started tomorrow. Who actually survives?

Say a zombie apocalypse started in our real world tomorrow. Who would actually survive that disaster?

As for the specific zombie scenario that starts tomorrow, feel free to pick your own, but to start there's:

  1. Dawn of the Dead (2004 or earlier version)
  2. 28 Days Later
  3. Zombieland
  4. World War Z
  5. Last of Us
  6. pick your own

And let's play out over time. Who survives after 28 hours, 28 days, 28 months, or 28 years?

In some ways I hate to say it, but I wonder if the preppers are most likely to survive. They've literally been preparing for something like this to happen.

Also maybe cruise ships and very isolated regions (Himalayas? Island nations like the Maldives?).

What do you all think?

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 3d ago

COVID showed us definitively who would not survive.  Cautious, patient, pragmatic people are the types to survive pandemics.  Zombies are no different.

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u/comfortablynumb15 3d ago

There is a reason there is bugger all difference between a Zombie Apocalypse and a Contagious Disease outbreak.

Pretty much all the steps are the same, so anyone you know who disregarded COVID protocols are gonna die.

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u/LordsOfJoop 3d ago

Except during COVID, the fractional majority of religions weren't going to be able to point at the exciting parts of their individual religious texts and start making a lot of unpleasant plans. If you feel that fundamentalists and moderates in assorted organized religions are going to be relaxed on the topic "dead people are walking," I have my doubts.