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Originally Posted by VydorScope
That would be once place where I would have an advantage, my entire family and I are in freestyle MMA karate and will be black belts come November. So we have the physical fitness and the understanding how to defend ourselves at least.  |
Well, if you guys are that well trained, you'd do good in hand to hand combat. But I spent time in the army and I've seen grown men laying in the bottom of foxholes in the fetal position in the middle of a firefight. Extremely well trained men at that. The guys who did best in those situations though were the ones who were best able to control their fear. At least that's been my experience. Reality might bear out differently though.
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Originally Posted by gmw
I suspect ScaleyFreak is right in emphasising the importance of mental strength over physical strength, although actual physical and mental disability is likely to stack the cards against you.
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More than anything else I think surviving Stage 1 is down to luck. Being prepared and fit and healthy might get you so far, but stupid things happen to all of us at some time, and in the period following a disaster I suspect stupid things (or things that seem stupid when viewed from the outside) are likely to play a very big part. Where real fitness of mind or body are likely to play a bigger part is in longer term survival.
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Yeah, I agree with this. I've seen some things happen in life that just stun me, people walking away from stuff that should have left them as a red smear on the ground, and others dying of things that in no way should have been able to kill them. Case in point. They had a show on last year about a "what-if" scenario where 1/6th of the world's population were wiped out by a super virus. In general the characters didn't handle things well for a large portion of the show, but still managed to not only survive the bug, but also the aftermath. However, despite doing really good throughout the entire disaster, the dad ended up dying from an infection he got after nicking his finger while repairing the roof. In a way it's the ultimate case of irony. Survive WW3 and then die of a stupid paper cut.