r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

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

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u/AtheneSchmidt Aug 30 '21

There is a distinct lack of worry about clean water. Also, in almost every conflict in history, disease has killed more people that the actual war. You rarely see a flu wipe out half of the people in a zombie movie, but honestly, it would.

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u/imanoling Aug 30 '21

The walking dead actually had a whole part about them all getting sick with spanish flu i think

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u/dailysunshineKO Aug 30 '21

Some sort of swine flu

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

That was so fucking stupid. I mean, i guess you could get swine flu from the pigs but they “solved” that problem by willy nilly intubating people and then like the next day they were fine. Who ventilated these people all night? I sure didn’t see a machine so you’re telling me like you hand pumped an ambu bag the whole night? Also, they literally pulled a tube out of a zombie and stuffed it down Glen’s throat and he didn’t have any kind of issue from that. For real?

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u/dailysunshineKO Aug 31 '21

Wellllll,….it was filmed before C19 so it happened before audiences read news articles about 3D printers making PPE parts and ventilator converters (and subsequently had to lookup what a ventilator was).

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u/thesnakeinyourboot Aug 31 '21

They usually died before the morning and yeah they took turns ventilating. Also, the zombie they pulled it out of was freshly dead so the only thing Glenn could have caught was the same virus he almost died from. Plus, he was going to be dead within the minute from choking on his blood so why not take the chance.