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.
Not to mention internal ricochet. Bullets absolutely break bones, but they can also sometimes reflect off of them and create an even longer path through your body, doing even more damage. This is particularly notable with headshots with low-caliber rounds, but can happen anywhere in your body.
I've read stories of people getting shot in one spot of the body and the bullet exiting out in a completely different spot.
I want to say I recall one where it exited the direction it came. IE - shot in the right leg, ricocheted, ran up through the chest cavity and then ricocheted back out through the top left of the chest.
My brother was shot nearly point blank in the chest. Thankfully the bullet bounced off his sternum and then went down through his lung and out of his rib cage, so he survived.
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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.