Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week:People In Your Corner

The Person Who Watches Your Back Against The Walking Dead Is An Important One.

As I said initially, it’s essential to have somebody watching your back in a zombie apocalypse. Yes, you can try to go it alone, but, out in the wilderness, sooner or later, you’re going to leave yourself exposed because you have to sleep sometime, right?

I know that some out there would say that they could simply sleep in a tent or a sleeping bag out in the woods. And while you can do that, you also run the risk of being found by animals, zombies, or worse, other people, who may just as soon kill you rather than run the risk of you killing them.

So, your best bet is to find some shelter that won’t stick out in the apocalypse. For example, an abandoned building (which, fearing zombies, other survivors may avoid). But that requires you to be in a place that may have or could be invaded by zombies. The solution is obvious: Have someone watch your back while you sleep, whose back you’ll watch in return.

This is a crucial choice to make when you think about it. You’re choosing the person you’re relying on to protect you when you’re most vulnerable, i.e., when you’re sleeping. You can’t just select any old stranger you run into, can you? In a best worst-case scenario, they’ll rob you of whatever valuables they can carry and scurry off, a literal “thief in the night.” In a worst-case scenario, they’ll kill you, then rob you of any valuables they can carry, so the choice is pretty important.

But it isn’t just sleeping you have to worry about because this person will also be the one you’re counting on to literally watch your back when fighting zombies. If you make the wrong choice, that person may do like Strand tried to do at the end of season six of Fear The Walking Dead, and throw you to the zombies to save their own skin.

Perhaps most important when selecting someone to watch your back in a zombie apocalypse, and the biggest test of loyalty will be how your second is when it comes to other people. You see, from a pure pragmatism standpoint, an utterly disloyal person might still be willing to protect you against the dead because, if it’s just the two of you, they’d still reason that there’s strength in numbers and do what they can to ensure that you are there to protect them. However, once other people enter the picture, this potentially gives whoever is with you the option of “trading up” and trying to sell you out in favor of the newcomer(s).

This is why making the right choice in partners in a zombie apocalypse is so important, because you don’t want that person’s loyalty to last only as long as it takes to find another person.