Initial outbreak? Wouldn't take much to get in here, my only real news source is the net so I'd hear about it pretty early at the very least. Shit, I hope it dont happen today as it's April the first and I wont believe shit for the next few hours. Damn serve me right if I get bit this morning, and I still wont believe it! I have to put my chances of survival pretty low, mostly because I am a lazy fuck, I have a gf and a baby... overall, I'd say 2% of surviving my first day of contact with zomebies.
If they are the 'Dawn of the Dead' remake/'28 days later' zombies, then I'm totally fucked and I give myself a nice even zero percent chance. In fact I'd just pop the top off the sleeping pills and go quietly in my sleep.
The real problem isn't the initial outbreak, it's if the zombies kill enough people to cause a breakdown in utilities and services. When your water and electricity go off, you're pretty fucked. Food will vanish from the shops if it hasn't already from either looters or simply bulk panic buying. Fuel will have vanished in much the same way and the only way you will be able to refuel a car is by siphoning off the remains of other cars fuel tanks.
Cold, hunger, and disease are the real enemies. People want to survive so given a choice between you and them, it's always gong to come down to 'I want to live' so you have to watch out for sombies, disease, starvation, freezing to death, and the nutcase next door. You really ought to think of killing everybody you meet in fact just in case they get the idea of killing you first. Mankind if doomed.
So once that threshold is crossed and there aren't enough people to keep things running, bang. We are all fucked. Except for the survivalists and Rambo clones of course.
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