How Long Should You Wait to be Rescued in an Apocalypse?

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• CK

  @CK-xz6wv · 3 weeks ago

  When the military handles the outbreak in the first week but I’ve already finished building the Femur throne

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• LA

  @laupatual7137 · 3 weeks ago

  This is why you should always ALWAYS have access to a radio, radio is the most reliable form of communication. If the government ever stops broadcasting then its over, its every man for himself.

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• JO

  @JoshuaTXI · 3 weeks ago

  This is a VERY interesting question. My personal take is already pretty well depicted in the TV show. Once the military is gone, places like the CDC have admitted &quot;defeat,&quot; and no single group is actively &quot;taking over&quot; the country to establish some kind of new order, it&apos;s basically a free for all and it&apos;s time to accept help isn&apos;t coming. <br> <br>The only sticking point for me is that I think morality would last way longer than &quot;hope.&quot; I don&apos;t think people are suddenly going to start eating each other or violently clashing the second their hope dies. Most people would need some kind of justification, prolonged pain or personal tragedy to meaningfully change their humanity. <br><br>Again, that&apos;s a ladder though. People will be breaking laws like &quot;hunting without a license&quot; far before &quot;premeditated murder&quot; LOL.

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• AL

  @alexcaplan9271 · 3 weeks ago

  I always say one year. If in one year things aren&apos;t being handled you have to assume this is your new reality.

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• EZ

  @Ezzrahhhhh · 4 weeks ago

  Man I immediately thought of The Mist with this sort of question. Such a great movie, I’ll never forget how I felt after watching the first time lmao

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• NI

  @nicomirabal1525 · 3 weeks ago

  I would wait about a month or two before thinking the government will not going to respond. But it a good idea to have a radio so you can hear what’s going on and that there might be some places or people that can tell us what happens.

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• JA

  @jasohavents · 3 weeks ago

  Even in the Last of Us the Government and Military are barely holding on. They lose more ground over time than they gain. When do you ask yourself: &quot;Should I start actually just rebuilding or are we just keep waiting?&quot;

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• TH

  @thedoomer141 · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  I&apos;d love a drama TV with this premise: Some type of disaster (not zombie related because that already exists) shuts society down for like 2 years. Think like an EMP, limited nuclear exchange or supervolcano eruption. During this time the protagonists of this story and the small community they formed had to do a bunch of morally dubious and even downright evil stuff to survive, until 2 years later the army rolled in, re-established order and eventually got society working to almost pre-disaster capacity. And this drama show would show the fallout of how hard it would be for people who had been fighting to survive to just re-intergrate into normal society.<br><br>I mean imagine having to go to work and your co-worker used to be some bandit leader who spent years trying to kill you and your friends. <br><br>Having to do taxes while you and everyone around you is dealing with unimaginable lvls of ptsd

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• UL

  @ultraman3014jc · 3 weeks ago

  If you haven&apos;t seen it, I&apos;d recommend the show Jericho (2006). It involves a small community dealing with the immediate aftermath of multiple bombings targeting all the major cities in the U.S. It tackles a lot of this stuff: When will help come? Should we accept foreign aid? Can we trust people from the outside? Feuds with other neighboring towns, etc. I think you&apos;d like it 👍

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• RU

  @rubythetrotman · 3 weeks ago

  The yellowjackets handle this really well. It takes them around 3 days of rationing to decide they need to take things into their own hands to survive until they are saved. A week from that to send people out to see if they can find society. And after that fails they give up hope, have a party out in the wilderness using anything they can as theyve accepted their fate.

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• CY

  @cyndaldees9380 · 3 weeks ago

  Honestly me personally with movies/shows I&apos;ve seen that (I&apos;d say) accurately depicts how chaotic it would be between people and the inability to truly rely on the military (or like how in The Walking Dead it was depicted that basically all the military run bases and safe zones were destroyed/overrun by the first 2 months) I wouldn&apos;t wait around for help.<br><br>I would hold out hope, but in terms of actually staying put in a not so fortified &quot;safe spot&quot; or looking for help, I wouldn&apos;t. I&apos;d be focused first on finding family/friends and building community.

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• PI

  @pinkpeppers5580 · 3 weeks ago

  I think about this all the time! Because in movies like shaun of the dead and world war z the outbreak is contained after a while, but in many others it&apos;s just &quot;survive until you can&apos;t anymore&quot;

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