In a zombie apocalypse, everyone thinks they’d become a badass like Rick Grimes. Well, he’s a trained police officer, and also fictional. In reality, many of us would be dead before week’s end.
100 days after the first zombie says hello, there would only be 273 people left in the world. This is according to a study in the ‘Journal of Physics Special Topics’. Assuming the zombies were carrying a deadly virus, researchers used an epidemiological model to look at the speed at which a virus would spread through our current world. There results clearly weren’t good.
Due to our condensed mass populations in small city centers, the virus would spread far too quickly with zombies outnumbering us a million to one. This would actually be quite similar to the film ‘World War Z’, but without Brad Pitt to save us all.
However, not all hope is lost. The scientists involved admitted that they did not originally take into account human’s ability to adapt to new and terrifying situations. If humans regained their natural survival skills we’d have a chance. Especially if we moved away from highly populated cities and to uninhabited ones such as mountaintops. Then, we could virtually wipe out the entire zombie population in approximately 2.5 years. Hurray!
via: Shared & ScienceDaily
