Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: You’re Not Alone

Fear the Walking Dead Cindy Hawkins

One thing we learned about John Dorie Sr. in this week’s episode is that he is an alcoholic. Considering that he became a recluse who was presumed dead by his family for decades, it’s not surprising that he would develop a drinking problem.

Having said drinking problem was one thing before Teddy’s cult launched its nuclear attack; hell, it was one thing before the zombie apocalypse, but after it’s a liability.

Care for proof?

Let’s start with John getting the shakes. With fighting being so crucial to survival in a zombie apocalypse, having your hands working properly is pretty important, and having them not working properly can mean the difference between winning and losing a fight. Then, of course, you had the hallucinations. I’ll get into those a little bit later, but suffice to say: It’s bad.

Even if you were to argue that those only came about because John wasn’t able to drink after the liquor shelf fell, the fact remains that you have no guarantee that you’d even be able to get booze in the apocalypse. This means that it would only be a matter of time before a person suffering from addiction to the sauce could reach the desperate position John found himself in.

Of course, a lot of this could have been dealt with a few weeks earlier, maybe even before the nuke was launched, had John revealed his problem to his daughter-in-law, June. She has the medical expertise needed to help John get eased out of his withdrawals without having to suffer the more negative side effects he wound up with.

Instead, John nearly got himself bitten by a walker and exposed to deadly radiation because he suffered from hallucinations. Incidents like that could have been avoided had John just confided in June.

To quote Negan “People are a resource” in the zombie apocalypse. I don’t mean that in the sense of being laborers or soldiers, but in a sense that people in your group may have skills and knowledge that you don’t have. Skills that you may need one day, and you don’t even realize that the people around you have them. If you reach out to the people around you, they may be able to help in your times of need, get you through the dark times, and keep you surviving.

The people in your group will provide you with a helping hand; all you have to do is reach out and take it.