The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Survivable City Myth

Will there really be zombies in an apocalypse?

4) Who will believe there are Zombies?

This is kind of a big deal regarding whether any place will survive a zombie apocalypse. How quickly and how much society believes that what they’re dealing with is, in fact, a zombie outbreak will determine how quickly and how well they’ll react. The longer the government and society take to accept that the problems are zombie-related, the longer they’ll take to start dealing with them properly, and the more people will die (And probably be turned into zombies) as a result.

I know that a few city governments and even the CDC have started looking at a zombie outbreak as a good catch-all for disaster preparedness. They have sent out warnings and suggestions for what to do in such a scenario, which is good, but even if a real zombie outbreak were to happen, how long do you think it would take before people realized that that was what they did were dealing with? A few hours? A day? A week? Whatever the answer is, I sincerely doubt it would be immediately. Meaning, every second, people don’t accept they’re dealing with zombies; people not only die but become zombies.

Part of this problem isn’t simply people not realizing that zombies are out there, but people reacting the way they normally would under chaotic circumstances. Have you ever wondered why I make a point of discussing why rioting and looting are so bad in a zombie apocalypse? It’s because I’ve seen where, under bad circumstances, large numbers of people do both of those things. It’s one thing when there are no zombies, but once there are, that’s suddenly a mass gathering of people being loud and (If they’re looting) destructive. This will draw zombies like a magnet. If people don’t realize they are being approached by zombies and won’t get the hell out of there, they will wind up getting bitten and turning into more zombies!

Society will never believe they’re dealing with zombies when they first arrive. Never. There will be people like me who will, but that won’t be enough to protect the rest of the population of any city in the world from the dead.