Basically, in any sort of supply disruption cities will become unlivable very quickly.
Everyone thinks they can go camping and fishing. You could only survive like that for a few days - most fisheries cant support thousands of people from the city.
If you dont already live on a farm, your only chance is to find a farm and offer your Labor and help defending it from thieves and refugees in return for food. Dig in and prepare to be over run by desperate refugees in the coming days. Pay special attention to sanitisation. If possible scavenge medication.
You can easily go without food for a month. So. At least weeks. And if you play it right, with a few fish, some backpacker meals, a bag of rice, and seeds to start growing greens, beans, and corn, you’d be fine for a long time.
Yes, its possible for an adult to not die for a month or so with no food in the right circumstances.
However, your physical and cognitive abilities are severely limited. You’re definitely not going to be fighting off other groups or zombies if you haven’t eaten for a week.
If the supply chain is interrupted anywhere you can think of to catch a couple of fish is going to be overrun with desperate idiots trying to survive on a bag of rice.
Growing beans and corn is non-trivial. You need good soil and fresh water and fertiliser. Anywhere you can catch a fish, get clean fresh water, and grow something within a few hundred metres is going to be very, very desirable property.
Farms are already set up with all this stuff but they already have a resident with weapons. However, a lone farmer can’t defend his livestock and would need to enlist workers.
Farms are already set up with all this stuff but they already have a resident with weapons. However, a lone farmer can’t defend his livestock and would need to enlist workers.
In the walking dead they managed to defend against intruders by taking shelter inside a prison. Not sure if this would be a viable strategy or not but it made for interesting TV
Everyone thinks they can go camping and fishing. You could only survive like that for a few days - most fisheries cant support thousands of people from the city.
But how many people die from the initial zombie attack + human infighting + how many people are physically fit enough to do this sort of thing to begin with? The longer you can hold out, the more the human population would decrease, and the easier this would get
I think about this a lot.
Basically, in any sort of supply disruption cities will become unlivable very quickly.
Everyone thinks they can go camping and fishing. You could only survive like that for a few days - most fisheries cant support thousands of people from the city.
If you dont already live on a farm, your only chance is to find a farm and offer your Labor and help defending it from thieves and refugees in return for food. Dig in and prepare to be over run by desperate refugees in the coming days. Pay special attention to sanitisation. If possible scavenge medication.
You can easily go without food for a month. So. At least weeks. And if you play it right, with a few fish, some backpacker meals, a bag of rice, and seeds to start growing greens, beans, and corn, you’d be fine for a long time.
That’s just not true.
Yes, its possible for an adult to not die for a month or so with no food in the right circumstances.
However, your physical and cognitive abilities are severely limited. You’re definitely not going to be fighting off other groups or zombies if you haven’t eaten for a week.
If the supply chain is interrupted anywhere you can think of to catch a couple of fish is going to be overrun with desperate idiots trying to survive on a bag of rice.
Growing beans and corn is non-trivial. You need good soil and fresh water and fertiliser. Anywhere you can catch a fish, get clean fresh water, and grow something within a few hundred metres is going to be very, very desirable property.
Farms are already set up with all this stuff but they already have a resident with weapons. However, a lone farmer can’t defend his livestock and would need to enlist workers.
In the walking dead they managed to defend against intruders by taking shelter inside a prison. Not sure if this would be a viable strategy or not but it made for interesting TV
Great defense but no fresh water, food, or sanitation.
But how many people die from the initial zombie attack + human infighting + how many people are physically fit enough to do this sort of thing to begin with? The longer you can hold out, the more the human population would decrease, and the easier this would get
Yes but my point is, you can hold out longer more easily by not going where everyone else is trying to go.
Fair enough