In an apocalyptic scenario, would you survive long?

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Thanks for this escapist thread OP I love reading them

Depends on the apocalypse really.

I can light fires, recognise a fair amount of wild food, and know how to fish, plus I can grow my own food.

But in a nuclear scenario I'd rather be wiped out because those skills are useless.

I have the menopause advantage - a few extra pounds as a calorie cushion and years and years of pent up rage barely held in check by hrt. Once that runs out, nobody near me will be worrying about zombies.
I also have adhd and already forget to eat and sleep; regularly mislay my glasses and have to adapt on the fly to my own stupidity. I think I’d come into my own in a survival situation.

I always have this conversation with my OH! He'd last for AGES. Loads of skills. Fit and well, strong.
Whilst I'm fit and well, I just couldn't be ARSED with surviving. It always looks so difficult and stressful, and life is shit in a zombie apocalypse so what's the point?!
I'd just lie down and give up

Id be rubbish.. first of all I wear contact lenses so worry about losing one.

I'm overweight and unfit so wouldn't be able to outrun any zombies.

I have no upper body strength to pull myself up out of harms way.

I often think about how I'd fare in different scenarios and have decided in any disaster I'd quite simply just die.

Our rabbits would die quickly. Any shock spooks them so they would have a heart attack.

Only humans. But animals get a bit scarce on the ground with zombies and humans eating them. As far as I know, no one ever eats their pets, but watch your neighbours very carefully.,

Are there zombie dogs or can only humans turn into zombies?

@Shannith my dog too. 😂 Should a branch have fallen down in the garden, she’d shit herself. Zombies, she’d be fine!

The cars would be fine as they seem to exist in their own version of the apocalypse anyway. One dog would die by my side, the other would probably join up with the zombies at the first opportunity and hunt for them.

I like to think the horse would be useful in a quick escape scenario. DD would have to get over her current ambivalence towards them but I think this might be just the push she needs.

However, hers would stop to eat grass every 30 seconds. So probably dead before they really hit going. Sorry DD.

Mine would be unfazed by zombie hordes, nuclear explosions and wild dogs but if a leaf moved in a slightly unexpected way she'd spook and ditch me on an instant, merrily galloping off to freedom evil I am eaten.

I like to think we have a good chance. DH is pretty famous for his survival in the wild skills. We live very rurally, he knows how to hunt, we have water purifier products, guns, cans, generators, a cellar, lots of other equipment we might need. Ultimately though, I’m not sure we’d want to survive. If things were really bleak, like in The Road, I just don’t want to potentially subject my children to that. My DH is the complete opposite though and says there is always hope. He’s been in some really bloody bleak awful situations where plenty of people would rather just go to sleep and not wake up though, so I think his perspective might be a bit skewed. Let’s all hope this doesn’t happen! And yes to the PP, you want Ray, not Bear.

Not a chance, not if there are hungry enemies about. Can't run. They'd catch me and render me down for soap and candles before turning me into a stew.

In a more friendly communal scenario, I'd be useful for cooking (as opposed to being cooked) and telling stories around a fire. But I won't be useful for long without a ready supply of heavy duty painkillers, which probably brings us back to the hungry enemies scenario.

Our terrier would let us down as she would have to bark when we were hiding from zombies/aliens/baddies.

My husband and I concluded that the moment civilisation deteriorated to the point where Waitrose stopped delivering, I'd just have to lay down in the road and die then.

Fundamentally, I am lazy as fuck, the zombies can have their apocalypse, I'll eat myself to death with my chocolate stash.

We think dog number 2 would survive though, she's small but smart and cute - she can get people to do anything!

Everyone heads to supermarkets and gun shops. They are the last place you want to go.

If we have an apocolyse Im heading to Costco. Our local one is staffed on the door by a staff member who makes a Drs receptionist look like Miss Honey.

Failing that I have a house full of stuff as DH did a costco run saturday, I have a scout, a cat who thinks if it moves its prey, a ferret who likes chomping any flesh she can get her teeth into and a pair of teens who currently are possibly rabid pitbulls.

200lbs of unmedicated ADHD and anger problems? I'd be the big bad, swinging a club, rounding up people to eat 😁

picked for sure

I would last for about... ooh, three minutes or so! Was talking about this last night after watching The Last of Us.

The only plan I have in that scenario is an exit plan.

When I was young I would have survived ages , good at running but more importantly climbing! I did karate when young but not sure how helpful that would be. I could survive in the wilderness, know plants, starting fires etc. DH and DS both did their firearms qualifications in cadets and DH is a master sniper or whatever it’s called but we have no guns.

Like in Last of us! Didn’t work. The fungus spread anyway.

If it really happened it would make sense for the government to bomb the affected cities/towns to eradicate the zombies.

When Covid started I thought of it as a zombie apocalypse to see how long I managed to evade it and I lasted very long before I became a zombie (got Covid).