Saturday 5 January 2013

Are you prepared for Zombies?

By Terrance Franklin


Between the premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead yesterday evening, and Halloween approaching, people are sure to be speaking of zombies again. While the immortal have been a part of famous customs ever since George Romero's Night of The Living Dead, men and women have only recently bridged the distance between prepping and a potential zombie apocalypse.

Are Zombie Preppers Legit?

Due to the imaginary nature of a zombie apocalypse, zombie preppers are generally looked down upon by several people in the prepper group. PostCollapse, the biggest prepper connected section on reddit, is stringently anti- zombie for example. It is possible that zombies are getting to be extremely trendy recently with the surge of nerd culture in the mainstream, and are experiencing some rebellion from more entrenched members of the community. But to dismiss something that brings more and more people into a state of readiness would be literally elitist.

Zombies: The Gateway Medication

Government bodies as high up as the US government have moved so far as to endorse zombie survival programs as a good way to get ready, launching a social media plan earlier this year. Due to the modern nature of zombie content, it was a good way to get individuals to start talking about the things that they had prepared. Their rationale? Having the ability to prepare for a zombie apocalypse might translate perfectly to a far more mundane disaster like a storm or earthquake.

The basic principles on the bug out bag list would be pretty much the same: food, water, purification tabs, drugs, as well as tools to create housing. If anything, the products might be more geared towards doling out ache on the shambling hordes of deceased. But with the reality of the hard to predict human aspect of an emergency, being more equipped than required would turn to a lot more people being able to secure themselves and their family from would be looters. In the instance that few food items would accessible, somebody wanting to consume your items is simply as deadly as a zombie wishing to eat your brains.

Innovation from the Zombie Prepper Scene

Zombie preppers have created their own list of innovative processes to satisfy the specific needs of their apocalypse of choice. Suitable for the defense of zombie attacks, there have been several interesting innovations. On the list of fascinating preps I found while checking a zombie survival forum years ago was duct tape armor. Actually developed in prisons to defend from shivs and other problems during riots, duct tape has been used for years to keep people alive. Used on its own or in combination with plating ranging from lunch trays to phone books, it provides a light-weight type of armor than can change a blade or perhaps stop a bullet if it is thick enough.

The results of zombie preppers can be sensed on weapons from practical to borderline ridiculous. Some have perhaps taken accessorizing weaponry to an almost fetishistic stage. Regardless, this kind of testing is teaching people all over the world abilities with regards to self defense.




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