This is why I watch the walking dead..

So the apocalypse has hit or so it would seem but I am comforted by all the knowledge I have picked up over the years of watching zombie apocalpyse series/movies that I think will help me and my family survive!

It all starts with one nasty little virus working its way into our communities bringing about initially panic and extreme reactions to the possibility of being hit by the virus. Everyone tries to run away from it and start to stock pile everything they need for as long as they think the outbreak could last (this would require serious amounts of toilet roll by the way).

There are those who will be defiant and dismiss all claims of worry and just go about their usual business regardless of advice and those that go to the other extreme of being fearful of everything and anything that might possibly be infected. The contagion spreads, cities will get locked down and all of a sudden we are all isolated.

Now in Walking Dead we watched the initial fear of the zombies in the first few series where people just didn’t know what to do. They didn’t fight back, they let them over-run due to the fear of the unknown and not actually knowing how to kill a zombie (always a head shot in case you did not know). As time progressed, zombies actually became the norm but by now there are different factions of people setting up. Some have kept their morality, sanity, etc. and others have gone to the fight or flight extreme and lost their ability to reason. It is no longer the zombies we have to fear but the people themselves.

Now I’m not saying we are all going to get to this extreme, and I am not taking it lightly, but we need to take action ourselves whilst waiting to see what sort of lock down hits our country and we need to remain calm. Be healthier, don’t treat isolation as the end of the world, find things to do that you never get time to do (sadly for me that would be tidying up the whole house).

In the meantime I have been wondering whether I should now learn how to build my own camp, set up a water filtration system and start getting used to eating raw food. I have also been consideirng aligning myself with people who have the different skill sets that would be required to face the apocalypse as Walking Dead always seems able to have a scientist and a doctor to hand and they never appear to complain about lack of loo roll!

The reality is that coronavirus will spread and yes we will hopefully take the right steps to hinder the pace of this contagion but we do need to try and keep our senses and also be mindful of helping those who are not as able to get about to get what they need during this time.

Be safe, be kind.

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