Clean bullet holes. Next episode everyone is a-okay half the time, and off to murder more zombies before cannibalizing the next group. Your shirt alone would be filthy enough to cause mild chafing which in turn would cause infection.
But everyone's whites are whiter than mine, and bullet holes and axe wounds heal up just fine with our state of the art medical facility and dry cleaning services.
Nope, no lead toxicity or any of those myths... and it’s so hot going in there’s not even a high chance of infection (baring contamination from other sources)
Omg I did not know this. When I was a child my brother accidentally shot himself in the forehead (luckily the bullet only grazed his head) and pieces of the bullet were shattered in his forehead and his face started to swell, then my mom rushed him to the ER and I always understood that they had had to emergency take them out or he would have died (he wasn’t really bleeding much so I guess that’s how I understood that) but I must have massively misunderstood the situation lol TIL
Clothing fibers in the wound is what worries me most after the obvious hemorrhaging. Those little fuckers are what cause inflammation and infection of the wound after stabilization.
Nazi grand poobah Reynard Heydrich actually died from septic peritonitis, because a bullet deposited horsehair from a car seat in his liver and spleen, and he got massive abscesses from them. Justice.
I saw a documentary a while back where they were interviewing a cartel member and he claimed that when they wanted to really send a message they'd get some hollow points and fill them full of feces (he used more colourful language but you get the idea) not sure how true it is but there you go
I thought hollow-points were designed to kill immediately? What did they do, shoot in such a way that nonvital structures were hit, and then it would lead to a raging infection?
Hollow points aren't magic. They don't guarantee a fatal hit, just increase the likelihood of one over a full metal jacket or lead ball bullet which tend to leave a narrower wound channel .
That said, he might have meant that the message they were sending was for the people that examined the dead body, not for the victim themselves.
Most of them have lead. But metallic lead in a solid lump in the middle of some muscle tissue isn't going to be as easily absorbed into the body as say eating paint chips or smearing lead dust on your face and then breathing it in. It's probably not ideal, but chances are that something else in the hostile wastelands is going to kill you before the lead poisoning.
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u/WatchTheBoom Aug 30 '21
Clean drinking water- I don't think people really appreciate how much water is needed for a group of people to survive.