I really loved the theory about sewers, in that as there are less people (read that no people) using them, they will be cleaner. Yeah, the rats and cockroaches will immediately move out smartly as there is no ready supply of poopywater.

Let's see here - less people = more bodies lying about (recall the one on the lawn?). Rats eat the dead bodies, and possibly spread the unnamed plague thru contact with foodstuffs, ratbites, fleas, rat droppings, who knows? So yeah, I am going down into the sewer.

On another note, if I was avoiding people, why would I be broadcasting to find them?

And why wasn't our guy carrying a weapon? Did gunpowder suddenly take a turn south? All the dead people = more guns and ammo lying about. Break into a gunsafe if you have to, who is there to complain?

Personally, I am finding an National Guard armory. Weapons, food (if you can count MREs) and equipment.