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If you woke in the morning and all humans had disappeared

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SolitaryTree · 29/08/2021 16:03

What would you do?
How would you feel?
Who would you pick to be alive with you if you could pick a person/group of people?
I often imagine this scenario….

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ThirdElephant · 29/08/2021 16:06

I often imagine this scenario….

Why? It's quite depressing.

WaggleToWarlock · 29/08/2021 16:09

Presumably the gas & electricity grid will stop.working very soon, so I'd focus on finding a house with its own electricity generation plus a vegetable garden. Also amass a small fleet of electric vehicles.
And learn to fish.

WaggleToWarlock · 29/08/2021 16:13

I'm reminded of this question: "What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"

what-if.xkcd.com/8/

ClemDanFango · 29/08/2021 16:15

Become Mother Earth and be one with the flora and fauna.

WallaceinAnderland · 29/08/2021 16:19

I don't think I would survive. I don't know how to hunt or fish and everything I grow gets eaten by slugs.

GetInThereLewis · 29/08/2021 16:20

I would spend my days opening cages and barns, letting all the animals out.

SolitaryTree · 29/08/2021 16:21

@ThirdElephant just curiosity I suppose. I think of strange things at times!

@WaggleToWarlock I can see myself disappearing into a wormhole with that what if link!

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romdowa · 29/08/2021 16:21

I'd probably just take my own life , why delay the inevitable

SolitaryTree · 29/08/2021 16:22

@WallaceinAnderland bloody slugs! 🤣

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Tlollj · 29/08/2021 16:22

I wouldn’t notice until Tuesday when I turned up for work.
Did I read a book about this at school? Z for Zacharia. Or something.

ThreeWitches · 29/08/2021 16:23

It might be alright for an hour or so tops; total peace and quiet.

Then, it'd be terrible. No food, electricity and power would shut off. Blah.

CovidCorvid · 29/08/2021 16:25

I’d go to the nearest hospital and stock up on drugs like antibiotics and painkillers, first aid stuff.

Then raid a supermarket or six for long life food. Get vegetable seeds and chickens. Find some goats/cows. Candles, cigarette lighters.

Set up a self sufficient small holding. Mil lives on one so I’d probably go there….it has a fresh water water supply.

Mariell · 29/08/2021 16:27

Have you not ever watched any apocalypse films?

There is always a handsome survivor who saves the plebs like me!

I’m imagining a young Kurt Russell dressed in leathers and brandishing an array of weapons, so I would go and search for him!

Disfordarkchocolate · 29/08/2021 16:27

I'd be a bit lost. Water, electricity and gas wouldn't last long. I suppose I could break out the camping gear for a stove and then break into some camping shops for calor gas so I could cook. There would be plenty of tinned food about and our local garden centre sells seeds I could take. I think I'd struggle massively very quickly though knowing my family we no longer there.

SolitaryTree · 29/08/2021 16:27

@Tlollj I don’t think I’d notice for a while either!
I’ve not heard of the book but I’m going to look online now!
@ThreeWitches I can only imagine that everything that already exists on this planet, even in one city, would be enough to sustain a life until old age?

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Disfordarkchocolate · 29/08/2021 16:28

I've just though, there would be horrendous animal suffering. No one to feed farm animals or pets etc.

ufucoffee · 29/08/2021 16:28

I'd think I was in an episode of Black Mirror

SolitaryTree · 29/08/2021 16:30

@Disfordarkchocolate You could keep your family ♥️ One of my questions was “Who would you pick to be alive with you if you could pick a person/group of people?”

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2reefsin30knots · 29/08/2021 16:38

I'd keep DH, but TBH I think I'd let my parents and DS go. My parents because I think they'd be too old now to cope with how different life would have to be and DS because once DH and I were gone, he'd be totally alone. Bloody depressing thought though!

I might move to the farm in our town and have a go at keeping the animals and crops alive, I'm not sure we'd have the skills to do that though, especially without power.

234Pepperplant · 29/08/2021 16:43

Go back to bed and have a good sleep. Break into a pharmacy. Find a combination of drugs, bring them home, get back into bed and take them. I’ve no interest in being a lone survivor without resources, doctors, dentists, mechanics, manufacturers etc etc.

If my family were there? Depends. If there was still sufficient population for a reasonable community I’d probably keep going. If it was just the four of us then some variation on the first paragraph I expect.

Mantlemoose · 29/08/2021 17:07

Enjoy the peace!

HollyGrail · 29/08/2021 17:09

I’ve no interest in being a lone survivor
But haven't you watched post apocalypse movies - there are always others, you've just got to work out how to contact them and hope they are friendly

Hen2018 · 29/08/2021 17:10

I’d secure myself as much drinking water as possible.

Source as much firewood as possible for my stove over the winter as I would now need it for cooking and heating water as well as heating the house.

Get LOTS of books from the library as I’d need to research more DIY, how to do more serious first aid on myself etc.

God knows what I’d do for the thousands of farm animals that would starve to death in the fields around me.

HollyGrail · 29/08/2021 17:12

I was part of a book club and I started writing a book that was what happened when the electricity failed - everywhere -
Quite scary once you get going, food goes off, phones don't work, heating won't work (pump for radiators), no tv or radio, cars would work until they ran out of fuel, then pumps probably wouldn't work at petrol station, can't buy stuff, tills don't work etc etc etc

Gatehouse77 · 29/08/2021 17:15

If I’m the only human alive I’d end it myself. I’d shit myself in a world of only animals.

If I could choose a group of people - DH and kids, DS’s best friend (really practical and knows buildings) and my sister are the first that spring to mind.