Are YOU Ready?

[Vareiln]

...Wow.
I'm the only one in the poll who would kill myself if the world ended.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

I have my towel all packed, and the rest of you hoopy froods should as well.

Nothing else is required.

[Horsefish]

We spent an entire 7 hour shift thinking about this. Yes, we are losers

Don't worry. My mate and I spent two 5 hour shifts doing it.

[United Dependencies]

Taking down their own economy in the process! Those slanty eyed bastards, I knew they were vicious, but not THAT vicious!

This was my 9,000th post? Everything I've said here and I reach this milestone with ironic racism?

I guess that means your post count is
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over 9000

[Manahakatouki]

No. I'll die alone and among the masses...

If I live longer than that, I'll die shortly after from lack of basic survival skills and cooking in my own home...

And if I find a way out of even that, I'll gladly read libraries filled with books until this disaster thing blows over...

[AETEN II]

Well ignoring the fact that in reality Zombies would be roflstomped by the Vatican Army, yeah, I'm good. Besides, if I needed resources I could 'borrow' stuff from one of my neighbors. Not to mention that now I'm eighteen, I intend to eventually buy a gun for sport (M1A1 carbine), so I'd think I'd be pretty damned safe. Not to mention I don't live far away from my police department.

And if Aliens invaded, I'd simply join them.

[Azrael]

My plan for the end of the world is that once it becomes apparent that it's a forgone conclusion we're all gonna die, I'll turn it into a game and see who survives longest. Might as well make the most of it.

btw, people who are still raving about the Mayan calendar, just stahp.

[Grave_n_idle]

On the other hand? I'm somehow glad to see that a lot of you would die. That makes my "sit tight for a few months and wait for the general population to die off" plan much more logical.

Not really. Surviving an event apocalypse is almost entirely about luck. If the pandemic hits your town while you're in Starbucks, or your bunker happens to be within the immediate radius of the supervolcano, you're dead, dead, dead - and no amount of extra ammo or tins of corned beef are going to change that.

So who survives the event... is a coin-toss, and anyone can loot. The real test is what happens AFTER the fall, and a couple of popguns and a few cans of soup won't make any long-term difference.

Can you purify water? Generate electricity? Do even you know how to make metal tools?

Flip a coin to see if we both survive the event. A year later, I'm living in civilization, and you're in the Stone Age.

[Imsogone]

I didn't see an option I could choose.

Anyway, let's Ragnarok and Roll.

[Fixdeluxe1]

It occurs to me that, although the Mayan calendar ended a while ago, we're not really out of hot water yet. There's still quite a lot of ways that the world as we know it could come crashing to a halt, from the outlandish (zombies, alien invasions, the Second Coming) to the terrifying (meteor impacts, nuclear warfare, nuclear terrorism) to the inevitable (supervolcanoes, pandemics). So here's what I'd like to know, concerning your potential survival:

-Have you ever put any serious thought/preparation into an apocalyptic scenario?
-What manner of defenses, if any, do you have against looters, raiders, and zombies?
-How much non-perishable food do you have, in terms of time?
-Do you have any method of establishing a quarantine in the event of an NBC-compromised environment?
-What is your long-term plan, if you have one, in a situation like the ones above?

Don't forget to do the poll as well! I'll have my stuff up in a moment.

I live in an isolated, rural area so hopefully if the disaster is of any of the previously mentioned scenarios then my main advantage will be warning. The primary defense will be in the difficult access to the location (I also have a secondary safe house which is basically a cabin out in the thick of the woods that is only ever used when hunting or on holiday near the mountains but is like 400km from where I live) as well as in ease of mobility. I suppose different circumstances require a different response.

[Great Nepal]

I am usually lucky, so yes.

[Horusland]

Yeah, none will end the world, but what if that natural disaster was in your area?

What natural disaster? Be specific.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, or even global warming/cooling. Those always bring human deaths, sometimes even thousands. Though not the end of the world, those are still dangerous situations.

The more lethal a virus is the slower it spreads and the more likely it can be safely contained.

I agree.

I don't think it's paranoid to be prepared for the inevitable.

Inevitable? Of course. Like the 21st of December was! Nothing happened, except that one of my friends locked her keys in her car and had to pay 60 dollars to get someone to reopen the car! That was like the end of the world for her. But except that, nothing disastrous/global happened that day.

Packing away a few soup cans, drinking water and extra batteries for a flashlight in a cupboard somewhere is a reasonable precaution for such things. Stockpiling ammunition, 10 months of food and buying a biohazard suit is not. Hence the paranoia internet diagnosis.

And, again, there are reasonable precautions to take and there are unreasonable precautions. You crossed the border into Crazytown a while back there.

Yep. There are people that exaggerate about this matter. They just can't realize that this is not a sci-fi movie, that this is real life. The zombie apocalypse and other things like that won't happen, and a giant meteorite hitting the Earth is a probability, but it's really small. But a natural disaster might happen anywhere (almost).

Also, the world won't remain at peace for long. A major war will happen in the future, and the impact of the last two major wars was disastrous to many.

[Esternial]

The more lethal a virus is the slower it spreads and the more likely it can be safely contained.

I agree.

That very much depends on the virus. Temperate viruses can infect millions of people before they even notice it, and as long as the virus remains in it's 'dormant' status the host will not exhibit any symptoms.

Then it's only a matter of time before the virus enters its lytic phase and kills you.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Don't worry. I'll loot a shop selling generators and I'll be posting here as my face is gnawed off.

[Horusland]

I agree.

That very much depends on the virus. Temperate viruses can infect millions of people before they even notice it, and as long as the virus remains in it's 'dormant' status the host will not exhibit any symptoms.

Then it's only a matter of time before the virus enters its lytic phase and kills you.

Has that ever happened before? No. And now that hygiene and medicine has advanced so much, that's not likely to happen.