INSTANT REACTION

What’s the first thing you should do on hearing of a zombie apocalypse? Get to your loved ones? Grab a weapon and start fighting? Jump off a building? Set your Sky+ to record all the programmes you might miss? Tidy your room? No. No. No. Possibly. No! The first thing you should do is get yourself secure.

That doesn’t mean you need to move to the place that you had designated as a safe house in your zombie plan. What it means is that you need to get yourself locked into any building (apart from Panic Zones) and barricade the doors as quickly as you can. At this stage don’t worry about supplies or weapons. There may be things within the building you have chosen that can be utilised should the need arise. But if you have secured yourself correctly then the need shouldn’t arise for weapons and you shouldn’t have to wait too long before you can venture out and look for food.

The reason for this action is simple. As soon as the apocalypse begins all hell will break loose: there will be panic on the streets, people won’t know what’s going on, and the place will become a war zone. With so much mayhem it will be difficult to keep focused and keep yourself safe. By distancing yourself from the chaos and ensuring the building you have chosen is correctly secured, you are effectively biding your time until the initial panic is over. This won’t take as long as you think – either the authorities will gain control or the dead will win. Either way you will reach the other side of the initial outbreak alive.

Unlike a conventional war, the dead won’t start searching house to house. Once the carnage is over they will become docile and start wandering around aimlessly. Once they have begun this process (after the majority of the living are dead or reanimated) that is when you can put your survival plan into action and head for your designated safe house.