It's another wonderful day in the neighborhood,
well, minus the fact that your entire city is on lockdown because Umbrella, the biggest
employer in your city, suffered some kind of chemical spill. As a safety precaution everyone's just been
sent a text ordering them to stay indoors. You sigh aloud and toss your phone, really
not what you need right now, when suddenly you hear a scream. You rush to the window and can't believe your
eyes as you watch a lady trying to walk her dog get tackled by... a person? No, it's not really a person, it's skin is
all wrong. And you've definitely never seen a person
have a tongue that long before! As the kindly old lady gets butchered in front
of you you realize that maybe your neighbor wasn't so crazy to stash away a freedom arsenal
after all. The government's definitely not coming for
anyone's guns, but the streets are very quickly filling up with zombies and freakish mutants
coming for your limbs and major organs. So you're stuck inside ground zero of yet
another one of Umbrella's accidental T-Virus releases- seriously, how is this company still
around? A single major chemical spill is enough to
have the EPA crush a normal company into oblivion. Well, logical plot holes aside, how are you
going to survive the T-virus? The T-virus has its origins in a very secluded
location in Africa, where it was discovered growing alongside a unique species of flowers. The Virus was quickly moved into research
labs across America and Europe and experimented on by the Umbrella corporation, basically
the T-Mobile of the Resident Evil franchise but with better reception. Much to the surprise of Umbrella's researchers,
the virus showed incredible mutagenic properties. Soon the virus was engineered to carry genetic
code from one organism, and then insert that code directly into the DNA of an infected
host. The virus could also edit host DNA to better
accept donor DNA and to tailor an infected host's DNA as Umbrella saw fit. In essence, the virus worked as a piggyback
agent that could merge DNA from two organisms together, to create a brand new life form
because two is better than one. The T-virus could have easily been used to
alter the DNA of humans with that of cancer or disease resistant organisms, thereby making
all other medicine obsolete forever and making Umbrella the richest corporation in existence. Instead, the company decided it would be a
better idea to use the virus to create hordes of monsters to use as bioweapons which were
extremely dangerous, could not be controlled in any way, and very often broke free to wreak
havoc on Umbrella installations. It was a fool-proof plan. Shockingly, instead of making trillions of
dollars off their modified virus, it broke free- like ten times- and basically ruined
Umbrella while almost bringing around the end of the world. But now it's your problem, because the T-virus
is knocking on your door, so how are you going to survive it? First, as with any major pandemic and as many
people are currently finding out, the best way to avoid infection is to practice social
distancing. In essence, by staying away from other humans,
you limit the infection vectors of a disease by not giving it the opportunity to jump hosts. The disease then infects a host and with no
other vectors to infect, ends up dying - sometimes along with the host - before it can reproduce
and spread. Sadly, the horde of flesh-eating zombies and
monsters with uncomfortably long, razor-sharp tongues beating down your door are making
social distancing a bit difficult. Unlike most viruses that can be treated with
social distancing and die with their host, some versions of the T-virus can actually
use the host to spread by increasing their aggressiveness to animalistic levels, and
then transmitting to new hosts via bites and scratches delivered by the infected host. Your best bet for survival is to take your
social distancing to pretty extreme levels, and leave cities as far behind as you can
get. We're pretty fond of heading to the mountains
in case of just about any major apocalyptic event, as you've no doubt discovered by now
if you're a long time fan of the show, and there's a reason for that. Mountains can be difficult to survive in,
but that's kind of the point. The rugged terrain and weather will keep other
people from trying to follow you, and in any virus outbreak, people = bad. But it's not just people you'll be keeping
away in a T-virus outbreak, it's all types of zombies and monsters as well who aren't
going to be keen on following you up a mountainside. Why bother when cities are densely packed
with delicious, gooey cream filling humans running around in a state of panic? We know we said just a moment ago that people
= bad in a virus outbreak, but in this case people might be the best thing for you, because
they are going to make for great diversions as they get themselves eaten. Of course keeping yourself from getting eaten
in the first place is going to be its own challenge, so it's time to enforce social
distancing, with guns. We chatted with our resident military vet,
and he told us the following about surviving a post-apocalyptic T-virus landscape. “Getting yourself a gun is a no-brainer,
but the question is which gun to get? Well, this is going to make a lot of gun nerds
pretty mad, but the truth is you want to stay away from anything resembling an assault rifle. Thing is, they make terrible home defense
weapons anyways, as they are so high-powered that a round is just as likely to kill an
intruder as it is to punch a hole through a wall and kill your family hiding on the
other side of it. Seriously, I can't stress this enough- walls
don't stop rifle bullets. Instead get yourself a solid shotgun. Shotguns are great in home defense scenarios
or apocalyptic scenarios, they're super simple to learn how to operate, so if something happens
to you your family can easily pick it up and put a bad guy or mutant freak down- unlike
with an assault rifle. Also they don't require the same high degree
of accuracy that an assault rifle does- which is why it's far better for home defense. In a nighttime home invasion, all you have
to do is aim your shotgun in the general direction of a bad guy and he's going to have a really
bad day. Same goes for a blood-hungry zombie freak. If you're in a post-apocalyptic scenario with
mutants chasing you down, the last thing you want to do is get into a stand-up fight in
the middle of a packed city, or have to stop to carefully aim your weapon. You want to run and gun, always working towards
fleeing your situation. When you're in a panicked survival situation,
unless you're a disciplined shooter a shotgun is always going to serve you better. Plus, they deliver far more stopping power
at close range than any rifle, completely obliterating anything made of flesh and bone
within twenty feet of your position. I know everyone thinks they'd be the ultimate
apocalypse bad-ass, but I've seen even well trained troops freeze up or break down in
a fight or flight situation. I'm not saying assault rifles aren't good
by the way, I just wouldn't want one personally in a home invasion or in fighting my way out
of a T-virus infected city. Unless, I guess, the mutants could somehow
shoot back at you from range. The question though is what kind of shotgun
to get? Well, you've got two real choices here- semi-automatic
or pump action. The only real difference between the two is
that a semi-auto shotgun will automatically load the next round into the chamber for you,
so all you really have to do is keep your sights on target and squeeze the trigger. A pump action shotgun is exactly like it sounds,
you have to pump the rounds into the chamber manually. Personally, I prefer a pump-action shotgun
in a combat or doomsday scenario, simply because it eliminates mechanical complexity by getting
rid of the feeding mechanism and is thus far more reliable. As anyone who's fired hundreds of rounds at
a time in a very stressful situation can tell you, even the most reliable automatic weapons
will eventually experience malfunctions. I'd rather not risk it, and while a pump-action
is going to be slower to fire, it's far more reliable. Plus, again, these things will absolutely
obliterate anything stupid enough to stand in front of it.” Alright, so it looks like our resident vet
has a clear favorite on zombie-destruction tools, but there's more to surviving a T-virus
outbreak than just weapons. Doesn't matter if you exterminate every zombie
or mutant freak that comes your way if you end up succumbing to infection later anyways. For that reason, one key piece of equipment
we recommend you pick up is a face shield, of the same style used by doctors. We guess you could go for a more badass post-apocalyptic
look and pick up a welding mask or something similar, but whatever you get it should provide
protection to your face holes from dangerous splash-back. Living bodies tend to pop like overripe tomatoes
when facing the wrath of a 10 or 12 gauge shotgun, and you want to keep all that infectious
blood and guts from getting into your mouth or eyes, two common transmission vectors. Ultimately though, you're going to probably
cross paths with the most dangerous form of the T-virus- the Tyrants. These are superhuman creatures with greatly
enhanced strength and endurance, as well as an incredible regenerative factor that makes
them virtually impervious to all gunfire. While the best bet is to flee from these monsters,
the truth is that they are nearly tireless, with incredible endurance, and can crash straight
through walls to get to their prey. And because they are created to hunt down
humans, you are very much their prey. You're going to have to fight, but how? Forget bullets, it's time to seriously upgrade
your firepower. Sure, it would be nice to come across a piece
of discarded high powered military equipment, but that type of firepower is going to be
in very short supply come the apocalypse. Plus, learning how to operate a recoilless
rifle or something similar isn't something you can just learn on the spot. Instead, you'll have to improvise, and while
regeneration makes Tyrants virtually immune to gunfire, no amount of regeneration can
stop fire. While high powered firearms deliver great
shearing and tearing forces to flesh, fire can destroy it at the molecular level, reducing
it to lifeless ash. Problem is that Tyrants have such an incredible
ability to regenerate that you have to ensure a significant amount of their flesh is destroyed
in order to stop the regeneration completely. Napalm is both easy to make, and extremely
difficult to extinguish, while burning at incredibly high temperatures. While in this scenario it wouldn't be as effective
as white phosphorus such as that used in military weapons, it'll more than make do in a pinch
against a rampaging tyrant. All you'll need is a healthy amount of gasoline
or diesel fluid and styrofoam, which will create a very sticky, extremely flammable
fuel which burns for a long time. Tyrants aren't particularly bright, and are
extremely single-minded in their purpose, so luring one into a napalm trap should be
extremely easy. Once on fire, you have to make sure the Tyrant
burns long enough to destroy most of its soft tissues. Best way to do this will be to slow it down,
and the best way to do that is to use your handy-dandy shotgun and blow away its kneecaps. Sure, normally the Tyrant will be able to
heal in a matter of minutes and keep coming after you, but once you've dropped him on
his face by taking out his knees, all you have to do is make sure it stays down long
enough for the napalm to work its magic. Once your tyrant is a smoldering pile of ash,
it's time to get the hell out of dodge, because where there's one, there's probably going
to be a second one coming your way soon. Head for the hills like we said earlier, and
wait out the end of the world in your mountain solitude. Eventually the zombies and mutants will run
out of people to eat, and most will die of starvation before moving out into the countryside
to eat regular animals. In a few years time the population of mutants
will plummet, and while they will probably stick around as a new form of predatory life
on earth, once the human population rebounds it'll be easy to exterminate them. If humanity has proven one thing over and
over again, it's that when we want a species dead then by God we get it dead. Want more tips on surviving a zombie apocalypse? Check out Survive the 2019 zombie apocalypse
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