can you survive a zombie apocalypse?

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1894905

mathematicians calculated the humans have little chance of survival.

What would you prepare for zombie apocalypse.

I agree that handling a problem like that would be similar to any other disease control. But a more likley scenario to zombies would be how do you deal with the hoards of hungry people around you if some disaster were to affect the infrastructure. I wonder what the mathematicians would say about that?

No.



Mathmegicians can prove anything - and I'm not being derogatory; if the model is right and the math is right, you've got it figured out. Problem is that the model's always flawed.



Keep tools to destroy the staircase up to my third story apartment. The problem there is that I'm pretty much confined to my third story apartment (even though I can tie a lot of knots while on rope, behind my back, hanging upside down in the rain - I can exist in the vertical world)... yup. Still confined. Still doomed.

Does anybody out there have a happy ending?

Bringing up infrastructure problems is a good point. Unless you can go completely off the grid and find a way to isolate yourself from refugees, people carrying a disease, ect; the chances of surviving any type of deadly pandemic are pretty slim and rely heavily on luck.

It actually amazes me how overtaxed we've allowed some of our infrastructure systems to become. For example, our power grid. Near cities, in the summer, we experience brownouts and blackouts simply due to the extra strain that comes from people using their air conditioning units. Now Chevrolet is bringing out a car that runs off of electrical power from the same electric grid. If we're having blackouts now, imagine how taxed the system will become if people are running their a/c units and charging their cars at the same time? Makes me glad I have a generator and fuel on hand.

Chicken Turds & Clorox will suffice for Most Frontal Zombie Attacks,Poly-styrene w/Acetone/M.E.K. & a few Bottle Rockets w/Beehive reports should take care o' the rest!

Now that have hung out with the New York Chapter of Zombie Squad, I'd say there is a moderate increase in my chance of survival. It's good to have a more all-hazards approach to life.

Lots and lots of bird shot rounds for my shotgun. Go for head shots, or leg shots to slow them down. I think they eat their wounded. Then once the immediate area is cleared, start for the nearest Walmart, taking shotgun. Stock up on more ammo and food. Thems with the ammo gets the food.

Then to the nearest HD/Lowes, wall making stuff. Try to get concertina wire from nearby army post. Improvise molotov cocktails and claymores. Pungi pits too. Build a small fire base and expand as needed.

Can we make this the newest survival series on Discovery??

check out todays Boing-Boing site for a math model of zombie outbreaks..

The vast majority of zombies have problems raising their feet and when they fall they have difficulty getting up. Some stout wire strung on stakes as tangle foot can slow your average wave of zombies down to a crawl. This gives you time for carefully aimed shots. Or to bonk them with a club.

Always keep a sturdy club handy. An axe handle doesn't jam or overheat and it will keep working after the ammunition is long gone.

Thank you Canoedogs for the Boing Boing alert.

The paper
http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
is an interesting read.
I have not worked all the way through it yet. So far not bad at all. (Yes, Zombies are a fine metaphor. I have no problem with that)
I am sure I will question some of their assumptions, but it is a good example of the math problems and is quite clearly worked out.

edit: I am especially disappointed at how little effect quarranteening Zombies seems to have, and that is without any loose vectors.