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[Lewa Greenleaf]

Glamtron

ok because of that obnoxious picture I'm going to repost


I wanted to know what people thought about what would happen to the physically handicapped? It seems to me like this is never explored enough in the literature/films I watch on the subject.

A lot of people in this country would need to stock up on pills that they need to survive day to day; but the more I think about it, the more I wonder if that would be a good idea to stock up immediately because most pharmacies and hospitals would be over run with the sick, dead, and undead.

Any one have thoughts on this? I've pretty much decided that in the event something like this does happen, I'm going to bring my pills and sew them into my clothing; you can lose your backpack or have it stolen, but the odds of having your underpants taken off of you... well you'd probably be too far gone to care.

Well... I guess you'll just have to find some way to get your medication... There really isn't a whole lot of options for you if you need pills or medication, other than go to a pharmacy and get it.

Plain and simple. If you need it, go get it.

I'm sorry if I sound like an a**, but that really is the only answer.

[Lewa Greenleaf]

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Lewa Greenleaf

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Lewa Greenleaf

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Well, I'm not going to go back and see what the picture was of... Mind filling me in?

And what ideas, if any, have been the best so far?

Dunno. Made my mozilla crash every time I tried to load it.
So far we have come up with standing in thick smoke or dousing yourself in deer urine.

Deer urine? Why?

Well, zombies identify targets by sight, sound, and smell. Deer urine will definitely mask smell, a ghillie suit would mask sight, so if you're quiet, you can avoid them.

Well, in accordance to your hypothesis you say that they identify smell, right?

Well, if you are covered in deer piss wouldn't you just attract zombies closer to you? Regardless of being hidden, they would still be able to follow a scent trail.

Zombies would be attracted to the smell of humans. A deer's latrine would hold no appetizing treats for a zombie to munch on, and so they would be overlooked.

Well, there really is only one way to see if that would work or not... so.

If you want to risk it, go ahead. I will personally stay "doe in heat" free.

[Glamtron]

Lewa Greenleaf

Glamtron

ok because of that obnoxious picture I'm going to repost


I wanted to know what people thought about what would happen to the physically handicapped? It seems to me like this is never explored enough in the literature/films I watch on the subject.

A lot of people in this country would need to stock up on pills that they need to survive day to day; but the more I think about it, the more I wonder if that would be a good idea to stock up immediately because most pharmacies and hospitals would be over run with the sick, dead, and undead.

Any one have thoughts on this? I've pretty much decided that in the event something like this does happen, I'm going to bring my pills and sew them into my clothing; you can lose your backpack or have it stolen, but the odds of having your underpants taken off of you... well you'd probably be too far gone to care.

Well... I guess you'll just have to find some way to get your medication... There really isn't a whole lot of options for you if you need pills or medication, other than go to a pharmacy and get it.

Plain and simple. If you need it, go get it.

I'm sorry if I sound like an a**, but that really is the only answer.

I get you, but if it was you- would you use the medication you had until it ran out and then go grab some? Or would you go immediately?

I pose the question because by going immediately you risk running into a lot of ill and undead. If you don't go immediately you risk the supply being straight up gone.

Additionally; I have FibroMyalgia, which is why I'm raising the questions. It's a muscular and neurological disorder that makes a lot of physical activities pretty excrusiating. If you ran into some one like me, who couldn't run a long distance but could make an impressive shot, wasn't spooked and had an above par knowledge of first aid, would you take them along?

[Spoot-Mule-One]

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Additionally; I have FibroMyalgia, which is why I'm raising the questions. It's a muscular and neurological disorder that makes a lot of physical activities pretty excrusiating. If you ran into some one like me, who couldn't run a long distance but could make an impressive shot, wasn't spooked and had an above par knowledge of first aid, would you take them along?

Answered that last page.

Is there any herbal alternatives you could grow and use?

[Fresnel]

Fresnel

Glamtron

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, and if it has I apologize, but I always wanted to know what people thought about the survival of the physically handicapped in a zombie situation?

As a "disabled" person I know the first place I'd have to hit would be a drug store of some kind, because I'm pretty much non-functional with out my medication, physically.

What do you think? Could some one use other survival skills, ie hand to hand combat skills to fend off the undead if they were unable to do long distance running?

Excellent thread by the way.

I hate to sound like a d**k, but I think that most disabled people will be pretty screwed. When Darwin comes back in full swing, the stupid, the slow, and the disabled will be the first to fall.

[Glamtron]

thanks for reposting, I'm sorry if I was annoying by not seeing that but my browser is still hating me for the ******** image.

Any way, I have to agree- most of us would be ********, but on that note, it would stamd to reason that some of the physically disabled (if not most) would in turn become the UnDead. Assuming this, what would you expect from a zombie who in life was bound to a wheel chair? Who had been amputated?


Oh and I have successfully tried some herbal remedies; it would behoove me to get a few books on plants and herbal medication -adds to list-

On a totally different note, I want to know what you think would happen to the UnDead in these places:

DEEP underwater (IE places only submarines could venture)
Freezing conditions

I've run into these a few times through my reading, and I've never found the answers to really explain everything.

[Spoot-Mule-One]

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DEEP underwater (IE places only submarines could venture)
Freezing conditions

Deep water is too hard. You'd have to find a working submarine and know how to operate it.

The cold has been discussed but its too hard to survive in unless you have hardcore survival training or thousands of years of survival from your ancestors.

[Glamtron]

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DEEP underwater (IE places only submarines could venture)
Freezing conditions

Deep water is too hard. You'd have to find a working submarine and know how to operate it.

The cold has been discussed but its too hard to survive in unless you have hardcore survival training or thousands of years of survival from your ancestors.

I hate to quote World War Z, but in it the author decided to have the zombies running around on the ocean floor, accesable only by submariners who chose to go for them.

My question is, does any one else go for the theory that zombies are somehow able to withstand the constant pressure that deep? Does any one else here hold with the "super-powered" zombie theorem?

Again, putting up another question; does any one know what The World ship is? If you don't it's basicly a huge cruise liner that offers apartments that you can buy and live in year round; while it is aimed at the elite, it gave me an idea; do you think that eventually large groups of survivors would come to form floating communes? I personally think that it would be a pretty good idea.

[Spoot-Mule-One]

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I hate to quote World War Z, but in it the author decided to have the zombies running around on the ocean floor, accesable only by submariners who chose to go for them.

My question is, does any one else go for the theory that zombies are somehow able to withstand the constant pressure that deep? Does any one else here hold with the "super-powered" zombie theorem?

Again, putting up another question; does any one know what The World ship is? If you don't it's basicly a huge cruise liner that offers apartments that you can buy and live in year round; while it is aimed at the elite, it gave me an idea; do you think that eventually large groups of survivors would come to form floating communes? I personally think that it would be a pretty good idea.

We hate it too. Zombies need to breathe. Find me one creature that doesn't. And yes, the pressure would make them implode.

A floating commune would only work if you could set it up before Z day and could keep it completely disease free.
It would bee too hard to stock and build after. Then you'd also have a good chance of someone infected being brought aboard.
If that happens, your commune becomes a floating zombie island.

[Glamtron]

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I hate to quote World War Z, but in it the author decided to have the zombies running around on the ocean floor, accesable only by submariners who chose to go for them.

My question is, does any one else go for the theory that zombies are somehow able to withstand the constant pressure that deep? Does any one else here hold with the "super-powered" zombie theorem?

Again, putting up another question; does any one know what The World ship is? If you don't it's basicly a huge cruise liner that offers apartments that you can buy and live in year round; while it is aimed at the elite, it gave me an idea; do you think that eventually large groups of survivors would come to form floating communes? I personally think that it would be a pretty good idea.

We hate it too. Zombies need to breathe. Find me one creature that doesn't. And yes, the pressure would make them implode.

A floating commune would only work if you could set it up before Z day and could keep it completely disease free.
It would bee too hard to stock and build after. Then you'd also have a good chance of someone infected being brought aboard.
If that happens, your commune becomes a floating zombie island.

Some how I just know that is going to become some sort of SciFi Channel movie.

I digress; what if it was set up within a few years of the initial outbreak? There is some kind of a sense of order restored, and people have begun to organize themselves on a broad, military scale (not too broad but, you know, more than three dudes with two by fours.)

Say they have the ability to screen for the infection, and one of any number of otherwise abandoned cruise ships.

Could it definetly not work? I was thinking that it would be easier to stock; and any compound with a large group of people would run the risk of some one with infection spreading it around, so, do you think that it would be better to avoid things like that and live on your own?

Additionally, do you think that eventually you would just break down? Or that you would see the zombies as not unlike deer (sorry to bring that up again) that you could fell with out feeling?

[Spoot-Mule-One]

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Some how I just know that is going to become some sort of SciFi Channel movie.

I digress; what if it was set up within a few years of the initial outbreak? There is some kind of a sense of order restored, and people have begun to organize themselves on a broad, military scale (not too broad but, you know, more than three dudes with two by fours.)

Say they have the ability to screen for the infection, and one of any number of otherwise abandoned cruise ships.

Could it definetly not work? I was thinking that it would be easier to stock; and any compound with a large group of people would run the risk of some one with infection spreading it around, so, do you think that it would be better to avoid things like that and live on your own?

Additionally, do you think that eventually you would just break down? Or that you would see the zombies as not unlike deer (sorry to bring that up again) that you could fell with out feeling?

With Steve Guttenberg.

You could have a flotilla but I don't think it was sustainable.
How would you stock your ship? By that time food would be grown again but it would all be perishable and you'd have nothing to trade for it.

I'm not sure how you could scan for the virus without medical equipment or some form of study on the zombies since we still won't know what caused it or what the zombies will be like.

Yes, we'll all break down. The difference will be whether you eat your gun or keep on surviving.

[Glamtron]

Spoot-maker

With Steve Guttenberg.

You could have a flotilla but I don't think it was sustainable.
How would you stock your ship? By that time food would be grown again but it would all be perishable and you'd have nothing to trade for it.

I'm not sure how you could scan for the virus without medical equipment or some form of study on the zombies since we still won't know what caused it or what the zombies will be like.

Yes, we'll all break down. The difference will be whether you eat your gun or keep on surviving.

You are so awesome in so many ways E:

Any way, I guess you're right about the ship; and about the option of eating the gun, I had an idea. If you, personally, were to find a woman with which you did a quick bump and grind in a moment of post-zombie-killing jubilation; if that woman were to become pregnant with your child, after giving birth (ignoring the complications for this particular question) would you kill the child? Or would you abandon the mother before she gave birth because she would slow you down?

[Spoot-Mule-One]

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You are so awesome in so many ways E:

Any way, I guess you're right about the ship; and about the option of eating the gun, I had an idea. If you, personally, were to find a woman with which you did a quick bump and grind in a moment of post-zombie-killing jubilation; if that woman were to become pregnant with your child, after giving birth (ignoring the complications for this particular question) would you kill the child? Or would you abandon the mother before she gave birth because she would slow you down?

Why thank you.

I'm not one for quick bumping and grinding. And especially bumping and grinding without a rubber. But on the extremely slim chances I find a girl willing to (I'm really not a looker. Or have that nice a personality) Then I'd look after her. She and the unborn child are the next wave of humanity. Plus I've never been able to hit a girl and I know I'll have even more trouble with female zombies than male ones. We'd need to repopulate the earth regardless.

Oh and you forgot an option. Shoot her while she is pregnant.
Just saying.

[Aegis_Guard]

sordstaker2

i could sharpen the spoon and jam it into the back of the head.then tear off the arrm and beat the zombie to death with it's own arm.if im stuck in home depot i could rig a blow torch to explode.just think propain is flamible and if it caches it exoplodes and blows up multiple zombies.i d never need to touch a chainsaw.

Please......get some better ideas or be silent.

"It is better to stay silent and be thought the idiot than speak and remove ALL doubt"