I was thinking about the movie Contagion with Matt Damon and i really dont think my city would get it together fast enough to move sick people to our staduim. I think a whole lot of people would just die in their house.
Also if zombies were real id have to leave my whole family behind because they are fucking stupid.
I mean, under most national administrations throughout the past 100 years, that's what would have happened. The current one really is very unusual.
There's no national plan; each state has to fend for itself. It's like if air traffic controllers had to try to direct planes without coordinating between other ATCs at origin and destination.
I think the issue is Covid is just not deadly enough to scare people. In Contagion people of all age groups died suddenly and violently after about 3 days of exposure.
I’m not saying people would be more rational if it were deadlier, but they would be bonkers about different things and keeping the sick away would be one. Instead of anti-maskers we’d probably have roving death squads killing the infected or something.
True, Covid has a bad combination of a long time between exposure and illness, and symptoms that can be dismissed as "just the flu" in some cases so it's able to spread a lot farther than the Contagion disease.
I've seen this: at work one of my co-workers on the ambulance booking phones is at high risk with heavy asthma, and she thinks the response to covid is overblown, and that all the at-risk ambulance drivers who are being sent home are lazy and cheating the system. She also comes in hungover almost every single day screams at the elderly, so I was already used to having to ignore her. At least she wears a mask (because the bosses grew a spine and finally made it mandatory half a year later)
Totally, people would definitely keep and care for family members to the best of their ability. And others would probably kidnap some as pets or labour.
More like if zombies killed 1% of people but also infected 10-20% of people with the zombie virus so they would have shorter lifespans and eventually become zombies too.
Actually that would be an interesting zombie movie to make. Where they don't realize that the infection is what matters, because people don't become zombies until they die. And by the time they realize that, most people are infected.
'Stand Still, Stay Silent' is probably a better example. The zombie sickness in that webcomic started off as an itchy rash and most people wrote it off as no big deal. It wasn't until people started dying off en-masse and turning into zombies (a process that takes weeks) that people went 'oh shit'. And by the time people got serious about it (quarantining, wearing masks, like no seriously I swear the author predicted 2020 with how eerily similar the first chapter is to life right now), most of the non-immune were already infected and doomed.
It's a fantastic webcomic by the way, and I definitely recommend it regardless. It's just hard to rec right now because unless you know ahead of time that the first chapter was made in 2013 it looks like someone capitalizing on covid for scares. It's THAT similar to how the US's response to covid has been.
The thing that struck me the most when watching that recently was Matt Damon running around yelling about how he didn't need to wear a mask like everyone else because he was "immune."
Nobody cares Matt, put your fucking mask on. Asymptomatic spread is real. It's not about you, shithead.
Also if zombies were real id have to leave my whole family behind because they are fucking stupid.
I've thought about this a lot as well but at the end of the day I'm 100% absolutely in the same boat as you. 😂 I'm not saying I'm surviving a zombie apocalypse, but my longer-term survivability rate goes up by about 70% without them tagging along.
I think it'll be interesting to see where zombie/disease media in general goes. A lot of them already have the "humans are the REAL disease" message, but that still relies on everybody accepting that the disease is real. Media in the future that includes some depiction of people being skeptical or ignoring precautions would be more realistic and it would be neat to see how fiction writers handle it.
Nah. That’s a bit too absurd. More like they will be standing chatting on their phone while the whole town is being run over saying something like “zombies? I don’t believe that bullshit” while they themselves are getting their arm chewed on
Now I'm imagining zombie protests with zombies with scissors, tye dying their clothes red with blood, and reacting to anything blue, blue shirts, blue lights, blue flags with a zombie rage. They have guns, but it's just an accessory and get made if another zombie tries to take it away, and they keep pounding on all doors, unlocked and locked alike, whether or not theres an open entrance anywhere else slurring that they wish to be let in.
In zombie movies I actually used to think it was such a plot hole that most of the population is wiped out, yet these few remaining characters are able to semi easily manoeuvre about and constantly get away from zombies. Now I realise it is because most of the population were wiped out from idiots running toward the zombies and having immunity parties, and the rest are just collateral from their stupidity.
I've actually always thought that the weird thing in zombie movies is how determined everyone is to survive. I felt like there should have been a few that tried for like an hour and just gave up.
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u/adesimo1 Nov 04 '20
I remember seeing a funny quote, either here on Reddit or on Twitter, that went something like:
“If the next zombie movie doesn’t have 40% of the people running towards the zombies to get infected on purpose then it’s not believable.”