DaftyduxIn a zombie apocalypse where do you hold up assuming you can secure any location you chose?
Dr. WeskerIt entirely depends on what kind of zombies.
toiletobserverOk, fast zombies
There are a lot more considerations.
Types of Zombies
A Zombie, in its broadest sense, is a person who has lost his or her sense of self-awareness and identity, and cares only for the destruction (and often consumption) of any human around, no matter what the circumstances, or cost to his or her self. They make up for this loss of intelligence in sheer numbers, as the state of 'Zombieism' is almost always contagious, and spread virulently, at a devastating cost to surrounding society. Technically speaking, true zombies are always dead, and...
turboSnailAs long as they aren’t evil magic zombies, I think the zombie threat is overrated.
As magic keeps those muscles moving, dehydration, infections, rigor mortis, and decaying flesh don’t really matter. After all, the whole point of magic is to violate the laws of physics and chemistry. With the other types though, decaying flesh does matter, which means that the problem will solve itself within a few days. Just keep the doors locked and windows closed in the meanwhile.
If you happen to be outdoors camping when the outbreak occurs, you don’t really have any doors and windows to keep you protected. If you have enough food to keep on camping for a few more days, you might be fine. After all, zombies are in the city, where there are lots of people. You’re out in the woods, so you might miss the whole zombie apocalypse when you come back home a week later.
if the zombies are raised by a necromancers, we will have more problems. if its just the run of the mill pandemic virus.
If you’re dealing with a necromancer, you bring a team of clerics and paladins to deal with the problem.
The larger threat is based on if they are virus zombies, and not living-dead zombies. To your point, living-dead zombies will just deteriorate are die off. But virus zomies have a chance of still being able to survive for long periods of time. There’s also increased threat depending on how the virus is transmitted, it’s lifespan outside the body, mutations, so forth.
The way viral zombies are depicted in movies and games, they seem to lack basic survival insights. That’s going to make them vulnerable to dehydration, which will stop their conquest within a few days. Infected wounds are the next problem they’ll face if they somehow manage to drink enough water.
Yeah, viral zombies won’t last long in the southwest. I ought to be good with just shutters on the house.