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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

Assuming they're the type of zombie with no viable circulatory system to help stay warm, I'd relocate up to the Arctic for a while.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Buy a shotgun. Shoot myself. πŸ˜†

Oh, and get drunk.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

Have two days of just absolute living it the absolute fuck up.

And buy a bottle of nitrogen and a non-rebreather mask.

[–] Sunlightl@fedia.io 62 points 1 day ago (5 children)

My plan would be "go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over"

"Two pints and a packet of crisps please love"

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Go online.

Research how many sleeping pills it takes to die.

Go out and buy them.

Spend time doing things I enjoy with people I like.

Crush the pills up into a drink and pound it.

Go to sleep.

Life's already hard. I don't need to live in a post-apocalyptic world.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Realistically the military will eventually clear everything, I just have to survive the weeks it would probably take.

Id buy a bunch of shelf stable food, a wood burner, bunch of lumber for barricading, nails, portable batteries for keeping out phones charged, a big battery for the router (even when thr power is down, internet isnt), guns. A bunch of bottled water too. A bunch of hand sanitizer too to clean out hands constantly if needed

I think thats all I'd need to sit this out. I think the hardest part would be convincing family that theres gonna be a zombie Apocalypse

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 19 hours ago

We going camping Boyz!

You only have 2 days before news finds out anyway. You can convince them somehow.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Can i get cardio in two days? This changes everything.

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[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago

Probably procrastinate for 48hrs.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hole up in Costco for two weeks or so.

The rotting corpses who only hunger for flesh are going to be eaten by animals and bugs. Because they don’t have regular ways to maintain water balance for muscles they will atrophy and become immobile. They will pretty much be a non threat while I have plenty of food and shelter to last me.

Many of the more modern and realistic takes have it caused by an organism that's gone endemic. Meaning anything or anybody that dies changes, regardless of if they were bitten. This provides a constant source of new zombies. In addition to the fact that other survivors are usually a bigger threat than the zombies themselves.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

I remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson explaining away zombies. Really took the immersion out of any zombie movies. Basically what you said, but more of it.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Stock up, stay inside, and wait for the zombies to die from either dehydration or starvation.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Get some plants to fight them

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Go shopping. Enough to last for a couple of months. Bring some water, as well. Buy some lumber to reinforce the doors. A few steel panels to close off a few strategic places. Raid the library.

Wait a month and allow flies and the weather do their thing.

See the not-so-dead fall apart.

After I stop seeing movement for three straight days, start blasting noise on a high visibility location from my location and wait to see what crawls out.

By this time, I risk two months have already elapsed.

Go out, with a shovel and an axe.

Dig a large pit, fill it with fire wood. Lay down a few of the corpses. Stack it as high as I can make it. Cover with more fire wood.

Syphon some diesel from a random car.

Light it up!

Rinse, repeat, until all the corpses I can find are disposed of, grouping together all the survivors I come across.

Start over.

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 13 points 1 day ago

Buy a lot of toothpaste and toothbrushes.
And I would ask those hordes of zombie to brush their teeth before they try to bite me as I would not want to get sick and maybe contagious right before I'm eaten alive.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Get gun, fishing rod and tackle, salt water filters, and those mre buckets bible thumpers are always selling on tv. Go to the marina and steal a keelboat. Dab on all the land lubbers still on shore.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Living on an upper floor comes in handy for once, as it's actually fairly easy to barricade the front door. Alert some key close friends and family members who will actually believe me. Then stock up on canned goods, fill every possible thing I can with water, and grab some camping solar kits for power once the grid goes down.

After that? Hunker down. Avoid being clearly seen in windows or heard to prevent attracting the undead. I reckon I need to last about 6-9 weeks.

See, the thing is, zombies are going to die out. The average human can go 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. Let's assume zombies have a magical lack of need of hydration, so they last 3 weeks. Double that for the time they'll have ample food. Assume another 3 weeks that they'll cannibalize each other or something.

At that point, I can begin to venture outside. Small numbers of capable zombies may still exist, but most will be dead or starving. Other survivors are my greatest worry.

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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Stock up on canned food, ammo, batteries, fuel etc. Go to a cabin in the wilderness far away from everything. Check that I've got the essentials, realize I forgot something. Go back to town to pick it up. Go back to cabin, go back to town to print out some guides on how to preserve food, go back to cabin.

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Get black market explosives so I can blow up my brains and don't risk becoming a zombie.

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