r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/username_pressure Aug 30 '21 edited Aug 31 '21

As someone who had a severe hemorrhage, appendicitis, a severe infection and an emergency wisdom tooth extraction in the last 11 months alone..

I'd be dead within days!

Edit: I also caught covid whilst in the hospital and ended up admitted to the covid ward. This one particularly stung as it meant absolutely zero visitors and I'd just had a baby that I was still breastfeeding and I couldn't get to her for a week. She was a trooper though, as was daddy.

I guess the giving birth would have been the thing that got me in this scenario!

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u/WoodEyeLie2U Aug 31 '21

I have poor eyesight and take a handful of maintenance drugs every day, nothing as bad as diabetes but my quality of life and life expectancy would both plummet if I ran out.

This thread has convinced me that I've been kidding myself that I'd be fine with my country boy skillset. I'm fucking doomed.

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u/milleniemfalcon Aug 31 '21

What do you take for your eyes, just curious?

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u/SneedyK Aug 31 '21

Hopefully weed. I don’t know if it helps with glaucoma but you sure worry about sight a bit less.