I think it is time I shed a little light on the subject for the general population who do not understand the zombie apocalypse.
Being ready for the zombie apocalypse means you are ready for anything. Some preppers are getting ready for one devastating event or another. You could prep for the Yellowstone caldera to go up in a volcanic inferno devastating the USA. Prep for an asteroid impact, financial collapse, nuclear war, or any other possible catastrophe that will destroy civilization as we know it. If you are getting ready for the zombie apocalypse you are working to be ready whatever may happen. Anything from losing your job to a planet wide catastrophe.
So why the zombie reference? If there is a massive catastrophe there will be zombies. Yes, strange as it may seem zombies will rise up and come after you or you may be a zombie. Where are all the zombies going to come from? I'm going to tell you.
There will be several groups of people who are at various stages of preparedness when a disaster strikes.
Group 1. People who have food, shelter, supplies, skills and a way to protect it all for the long term, more than 2 years.
Group 2. People who have some food, some means of protection and skills for the moderate term, 1 to 2 years.
Group 3. People who have limited food, skills and means of protecting for several weeks to months.
Group 4. People who just do not have anything ready.
Group 5. People who have weapons and are willing to use them to take food and supplies from other people.
The Zombie apocalypse begins with a devastating event that effects a large geographical area. This may be several states, nations or the world.
The people in group 4 who have nothing ready run to the store to buy goods. The shelves are emptied in a few minutes to hours. They are joined by the people in group 5 who bring their guns to be sure they get their share. A riot breaks out and people begin to kill each other for food and supplies.
The people in groups 1, 2, and 3 get ready for the impending zombie attack. The people who are left in groups 4 and 5 begin to form a zombie mob. Some of the people from group 4 find shelter with friends and family who are in groups 1,2, and 3. The rest try to hide or shelter as best they can.
A zombie is anyone who has sunk into a depraved social structure with the base ideology of "I will do what ever is needed to survive." Zombies can not grow their own food or make their own goods. They are the people from groups 4 and 5.
As the zombies consume their food and supplies they begin to look for new opportunities to fill their stomach. Some as individuals, some in small groups and some in mass start to look for a way to get what they need.
The people of group 4 who have so far escaped with some supplies are easy targets. Lacking adequate weapons and shelter they are the first victims of the zombies. Most are killed for their supplies.
Because zombies do not have a supply of food they must be out searching for new food sources. All animals will be consumed. Cats, dogs, rats, mice and insects will be caught and eaten. Some will also begin to cannibalize the dead. Zombies will readily kill each other.
After 3-4 days without food zombies will eat the dead.
The next targets for the zombies will be people they know who may have a supply in their home. They will try to overpower the home, kill the people and take whatever they can use. The elderly will be considered easy targets as well as the disabled and chronically ill. People who are dependent on medications to live such as diabetics will be on the zombie target list. They will take on the weak first. Then they will go for individual single family homes. With their numbers and weapons they will over power the homes.
Within 90 days all the chronically ill, elderly and medically dependent people who are not in groups 1, 2, and 3 will be dead. They may have passed away from their disease or been killed by zombies. Many single home peppers will also have been over run.
Group 3 will begin to fail before the end of the first year. As their short term supplies run out they will need to locate new supplies and food sources. The sick, weak and elderly may be expelled from the group in an attempt to conserve the supplies for the younger and stronger group members. The expelled members become zombies or die. Some group 3 people will seek to join with group 2 and group 1 people. If they can show they have the skills and supplies that are needed by them they have a chance to join the new group. Anyone trying to join a group at this point will be viewed with extreme caution and most likely not admitted to a new group. Some smaller groups may join together for mutual protection. The zombies will continue to attack where ever they can find a group they think they can overpower and each other.
After 1 year, groups 5, 4 and most of 3 will be zombies or dead. Zombies will be much fewer in number, ammo will have become scarce, vast numbers of people will be dead. Without new food production, starvation and cannibalism are epidemic among the zombies.
As the population decreases, people in groups 1 and 2 may determine to plant new crops if they are not under pressure from zombies. Almost all animals have been eaten by the zombies. Animals in the care of preppers have their next generation.
After the 2nd year almost all of the zombies are dead. Some few as individuals and small groups still exist and may try to join stable groups. Other zombies will continue to raid and plunder to exist. People from groups 1 and 2 who have survived begin to rebuild what they can of a civil society. The society will be considered primitive, most likely similar to life in the 1700 to 1800s. Natural resources will have been depleted and destroyed by the roving zombie hoards. We will have to regrow from our stores all the food, forests, animals and fuels.
The unready will not survive.
The unready will not survive.
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