81% chance of survival here. As a former Merchant Marine officer trained to function in a crisis and who has proved more than once that he doesn't fold up under pressure, I think that helped my chances.
It didn't have "hide out at billy's gun shack" as an option. I have 68 percent chance of surviving. But I know if billy's gun shack were an option that would jump to 96 percent!!!
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id prolly load my truck and drive it out to the middle of my yard.
start loading weapons and kill every zombie in the valley.
stay visible so they go for ya.
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81%, mostly, I think, because I'm just getting back into shooting really regularly again.
Loved ones? In a heartbeat.
Heh...corpses don't bother me any, either. I was a mortician for a few years. We had a joke when people'd see the prep room (empty, of course). When they'd ask "Why do you have a hammer there?" the answer was "In case they move."
Although, amusingly, unless they were fresh infected victims, you wouldn't have a lot to worry about if the dead spontaneously rose.
I guess that's why I never really "felt" the whole "dead outnumber the living" scenario. First off, no one is digging out of a modern grave unless they're stronger than Spider-Man. You have a casket that's either wood or at least 18 gauge steel, that's locked. Then, said casket is placed inside a concrete vault with a concrete cap. Then the whole shebang is buried (yes, six feet or so under), and sometimes concrete is poured over top to place plaques or just for aesthetic purposes.
Oh yeah...their mouths are also wired or sewn shut...if wired, pins are driven into the jawbones and the wire is twisted. If sewn, you go through the frenulum in the lower lip (thick and strong tissue, it'd be hard to bust open, very hard) and then through the septum. So any zombie strong enough to open its jaw (those muscles are weaker than the ones that close it) and tear the thread loose is also packing significantly greater-than-human strength.
Mostly a "zombie plague" would just make cemeteries kind of noisy.
Now some Third World countries without adequate dispositional services might have an issue, but that's not our problem.
I would imagine the easiest way to survive is just gear up a bite-proof suit. It can't possibly be that difficult to get gear together that cannot be bitten through. I'd imagine some police riot gear would be effectively invulnerable to zombie attack, so would lots of armour from the past, like SCA folks wear. Just travel in groups, carry some melee weapons for when you don't want to risk shooting, and go to town on cleanup.
