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 [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    391·
    3 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.

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
    23·
    4 days ago

    Zombie apocalypse or not, I’d love to hide away for the rest of my life in a cabin in the woods.

      • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        In a zombie apocalypse, perhaps not. I might keep a radio for listening and communicating when necessary. In real life… Maybe, depending on the state of the internet by the time I leave civilization. I might just download a bunch of stuff and keep it in multiple drives, (and/or do the radio thing) radios are cool

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      51·
      3 days ago

      Factually not true. You’ll notice that even in Gaza, people shove each other to get at the scraps, but that’s it for open inter-civilian violence, and extended families are still looking out for each other.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        That’s mostly their religion keeping the social fabric together. Israel can keep their entire family and they will say God is sufficient for them 5 seconds later. These things don’t happen anywhere else. And even in Palestine there’s opportunists like the Abu Shabab gang.

        • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Nah, Muslims are just slightly remixed Christians.

          The same scene played out across many continents last century.

  • CrocodilloBombardino@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    The best strategy in an emergency is always mostly cooperation. There will be some awful behavior to look out for, plus with zombies you’ll need a means of keeping them out and screening people for signs of zombification, but it’ll be hard to survive and do that stuff without a community. Many hands, diversity of skills, people to talk to, etc.

  • Jerb322@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 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
      2·
      3 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

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 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
      2·
      3 days ago

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

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 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
      3·
      3 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

  • cannon_annon88@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I dunno. I actually think about this sometimes. I’d like to think I’d be friendly, but it depends on how everything went for me leading up to wherever I end up. If I lost my entire family, I would probably become pretty hostile towards everything. If I wound up in a big safe place with lots of supplies and people, I’d probably be more friendly, but also wary of anyone new.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 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…

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    3 days ago

    Friendly. Humans are a social species, that’s the way it works; the battle royale thing is mostly good for television. Even the fucked up shit we do is done socially.

    What do you mean about the halo effect? I thought that was about physical attractiveness.

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 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
      2·
      3 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