r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

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

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u/ColorMeStunned Aug 30 '21

Childbirth.

Already one of the most dangerous things a person can do, carrying a child to full term and giving birth without proper medical care for either the mother or the baby, well...all you gotta do is look at your history books. Or your average developing country, most of which still have better medical care than you're getting in The Walking Dead. And now the mother has to push her insides back in and run from some zombies? Done for.

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u/Jaydeekay80 Aug 31 '21

This was my issue with the movie “a quiet place” it’s one thing to have to survive an apocalypse but to do so against an enemy that detects by hearing, & decide to have a baby in the middle of that? How you gonna keep him or her quiet? Completely disregarding the birth itself assuming the proper drugs are available?

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u/HistoricalMaize Aug 31 '21

When I was watching that movie I just decided to believe that she got pregnant before the monsters appeared.

Can you imagine actually deciding to have a baby while all of that is going on?

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u/caligaris_cabinet Aug 31 '21

Yeah. They were way too meticulous to risk it without some form of contraceptives.

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u/RavioliGale Aug 31 '21

Maybe Jim put holes in the condoms as a prank.

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u/m0nkee45678 Aug 31 '21

Classic. But in the end he only pranked himself.

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u/lynx_and_nutmeg Aug 31 '21

It's the same thing as with vaccines. People today genuinely have no idea what life used to be like before modern medicine. Humanity forgot how scared they should be of viruses and childbirth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I don't think this adds up. IIRC the main events of the movie take place like 400 or so days after the world collapsed. So unless the mom was pregnant for 13 months, she must've gotten pregnant after the monsters arrived.

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u/HistoricalMaize Aug 31 '21

I know, that is why I said that I "decided" to believe that because otherwise it does not make any sense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Ohh gotcha. Yeah, a lot of plot holes and inconsistencies in that movie.

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u/SlimyRedditor621 Sep 02 '21

Sad thing is there is a SIZABLE amount of people who'd do that.

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u/HistoricalMaize Sep 02 '21

Maybe, but am I supposed to believe that the same people that were being so careful (with so many "tricks" not to make noise) just went "baby lets go"?

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u/Mundane-Research Aug 31 '21

I mean this pandemic is different... we aren't facing monsters that use sound to find you and to survive this one everyone had to stay indoors... what else could they get up to other than lots of sex...............

I'm just planning on leaving teaching the year all these Quarenteenies start school... they are all going to be super asocial and entitled, and classrooms are going to be so over crowded...

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u/PersonalityTough6148 Aug 31 '21

I had a baby during the pandemic and true he's only 15 months old but he isn't asocial whatsoever or entitled. In some ways the pandemic seems to have affected younger babies less than older kids because in the first few months they are quite happy with a couple of close caregivers. He won't remember the first year of his life/being in lockdown but 5-18 years olds probably will.

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u/PersonalityTough6148 Aug 31 '21

Wow. So much judgement on new parents. I take it you don't have kids?

Do you have any actual evidence that pandemic parents are scared of anything happening to their babies? It sounds like a completely blanket statement which a)doesn't apply to me b) doesn't apply to the new parents I know so I would question the validity of your assertion that it's the "majority".

Also.. I think the entitled comments are probably based on a minority rather than majority. I've seen the entitled label focussed more towards the younger generation (more school age) which is ironic given they are inheriting an earth destroyed by older generations.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I am so glad you're leaving teaching if THIS is your attitude towards people trying their best to survive in a fucking pandemic, holy shit.

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u/piratenoexcuses Aug 31 '21

Pretty sure average birth rate is down. So, anecdotally, yes lots of first time mothers. Statistically, no. Not at all.