How long do you think people would survive?
not only main characters, but any human beings on Earth in this Kirkman's world.
The walkers are multiplying, their number is increasing too fast.
in TV show, farms around Atlanta and port benning got overrun in less than a year. (Not sure about the date of outbreak....in TV show it's still only been a year, right?)
I guess in 2, 3 years every corner of Earth would be covered by walkers. How can people survive? Even if they can find some shelter, water and soil would be contaminated by the corpses.
More and more I watch and play this great piece of art, I get more depressed, feel the complete hopelessness. Well, i guess that's the point of the WD.
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Where the fuck is Lee? I gues he's dead...
I don't think even a TWD syle apocalypse would wipe everyone out.
The cities would be complete no go areas of cause, with millions of walkers in the streets, buildings, bathrooms, cupboards, subways etc, and there would probably be larger and larger herds moving around, but they rot, remember? You have rapidly have a huge number, and things would go bad really quick, but one of the key factors in whether a species can survive a mass extinction is distribution.
There are billions of people spread out over a considerable portion of the globe.
Of cause this would also mean no where is safe from walkers, and we all know the implications of everyone who dies turning, so things would be very bad for a while.
But eventually the huge herds would rot away, leaving walkers now as crawlers, zombie landmines, unable to move, but still able to bit, that would lie concealed in the long grass and rubble. Things would remain dangerous for a long time, and there would always be people dieing or being killed and returning, so always fresh walkers.
I think life would be much as you see it in the Last of Us, with quarantine zones over run or dieing out in the cities, and bands of scavengers roaming the land, but also communities like Tommy's, where decent folk had banded together for mutual security and company.
It would be a very different world, much quieter, but I don't believe people would die out all together.
For that, you'd need a situation like in Cormac McCarthy's The Road (There's a movie with Viggo). In that situation, even the plants and animals were dying out. As long as there's life though, there's hope.
2-3 years. In the end the dead always win. The problem is that everyone is infected, no matter how many safe zones are set up eventual someone will die and rise. Given a long enough timeline the dead will always win.
I'm not sure how you could dead with the threat of someone having a heart attack in your base and setting off a chain reaction like when Anna escaped from Crawford.
I mean, you could say you'll lock everyone in at night, but that's only half the problem, plus what does everyone get locked in a seperate room?
At least on TLOU not everyone had it, you COULD quarantine, to an extent, but my guess in this situation you'd be better moving constantly.
Get above the frost line to where the zombies freeze. It'd be hard, but better than being surrounded by rotting millions.
Shit imagine living in China?!?
That why I always say I would not join a large group, eventually someone will die. Kirkman created a no win situation, eventually we all join the herd.
Well people are stupid. They would much rather have petty squables with each other than deal with the matter at hand. I have a theory on the whole apocalypse, when people come into contact with walkers, they become carriers, aka, they spread the disease, the "when you die, you turn" disease. I believe I would survive longer periods of time then the common person, having been in a military family all my life, knowing basics to survival, first aid, and the number 1 factor, THE DAMN ABILITY TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE. In this apocalypse...it seems people are worse than the walkers. You have to stay in groups, but the group has to have a set of rules (nothing like Crawford or Woodbury). This group has to have children (which are protected, but taught by the elderly), middle aged men and women (soldiers, teachers, mothers, fathers), and elderly (teachers). Elderly will pass down knowledge of survival, basically farming, survival techniques and first aid. Even though the world goes to hell, that doesn't give you the right to lose your humanity.
Human beings are incredibly resilient.
Not just physically, but also in spirit.
I know I'd survive.
I don't give up for anything!
Well it depends how smart is the person
If people are smart, we'd survive. Yes everyone's infected but if the group is smart and the dying individual accepts his/her fate, the crisis could be averted if the situation is handled with precaution.
What about the walkers? Yes, they'd be walking this Earth for a while but not forever. Walkers rot, and eventually rotting materials decompose. There was even one incident in the comics where a walker was too weak/rotten to even stand up and take a munch, so we can take this into account.
I'm reading a really good novel at the moment called "Zone One" which is about the beginning of civilization's recovery from a zombie apocalypse. There is a provisional government and an ongoing military effort to recover certain urban areas from infestation (the novel is set in New York). The protagonist is part of a civilian clean up unit who go through urban areas that have been cleared of the really dangerous zombie hordes by the marines. It's fairly easy to imagine that kind of scenario being a few years in the future of the world depicted in TWD (game at least, I'm not up to date with the comics).
Ultimately survival of larger groups would require a complete change in attitudes to death and illness. Old and sick people would likely be quarantined until they had either recovered or turned and were properly disposed of. There would still be outbreaks due to sudden death but social conditioning would give us new norms for how to react. You'd likely get a lot fewer people rushing to the aid of someone who fell out of a tree or got hit by a car, for instance. Think of the change in attitude to personal hygiene since the understanding of the germ theory of disease.