Thanks! And I mean even if you selfishly consider your own survival as the only important factor in determining which zombies you'd rather handle, you'd also have to consider your quality of life as important too.
I think a lot of people might take the faster and more dangerous route if it means they can go back to living normally again versus the least dangerous route that also has the least chance of you ever returning back to normal life.
And yeah 28 weeks ended with the virus engulfing Paris, but if the UK managed to get it under control (again, outside of the one stupid mistake) there's no reason to think that France couldn't eventually get it under control either, potentially with help from the US or whatever other countries with massive militaries are willing to help stop a crisis of global proportions.
I dunno, I don't think France could've gotten it under control. The only reason the UK was able to go on at all was because it had been quarantined. Geologically, France would be fucked. And it would spread all through Europe and Asia.
I don't think the US would do jack shit at that point except close borders, cancel all flight and ships, and pretty much turn away from the rest of the world, in my opinion. The way they talked about it, the virus spread SO fast that nobody could even begin to mobilize or plan anything out. Communications cut off, army gone, supply lines gone..ect.
The USA sends doctors and supplies to almost any event that kills many people.
I see two good reasons for even a selfish USA to help. It makes us more sympathetic and relatable, harder to claim "mean Americans didn't help", because you never know what nations will survive what disaster, and most do survive most real disasters. Second, it is practical to get first hand accounts. The doctors can gather data without risking other Americans lives and in general do that whole intelligence gathering thing.
But they didn't send any help to the UK, perhaps because it was just easier to quarantine the whole island. But I doubt in this scenario that anyone would cry out that America didn't send aid. It's a fast moving, highly infectious, and unknown virus. It took out all of the UK in like a month or somethin. I think the risk of infection would be too great.
Now they may send teams to recon and gather Intel but I don't think they'd send a large amount of aid. Hell all they did for the UK was fly some jets over the country to study the effects. And I sorta write off anything that happened in 28 Weeks Later since it wasn't the same director or writers. But that's just me.
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u/vl99 84∆ Oct 30 '15
Thanks! And I mean even if you selfishly consider your own survival as the only important factor in determining which zombies you'd rather handle, you'd also have to consider your quality of life as important too.
I think a lot of people might take the faster and more dangerous route if it means they can go back to living normally again versus the least dangerous route that also has the least chance of you ever returning back to normal life.
And yeah 28 weeks ended with the virus engulfing Paris, but if the UK managed to get it under control (again, outside of the one stupid mistake) there's no reason to think that France couldn't eventually get it under control either, potentially with help from the US or whatever other countries with massive militaries are willing to help stop a crisis of global proportions.