Older People during z-poc
We have a couple of discussions about kids in the z-poc, what about the older people?
At 50 I'm not as fit as I used to be, I can walk all day but running is another question. During winter the arthritis in my hands (too many years of sword polishing with finger stones) doesn't give me full use untill I've warmed up a bit.
On one hand you have the fact that older people tend to be slower and not so fit, on the other they have years of real life experience and knowledge to share.
You gonna leave us behind or take us with you? I can assure you, you won't be taking my stuff with you without me.:)
At 50 I'm not as fit as I used to be, I can walk all day but running is another question. During winter the arthritis in my hands (too many years of sword polishing with finger stones) doesn't give me full use untill I've warmed up a bit.
On one hand you have the fact that older people tend to be slower and not so fit, on the other they have years of real life experience and knowledge to share.
You gonna leave us behind or take us with you? I can assure you, you won't be taking my stuff with you without me.:)
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on -
I'll be 45 this year. I'm slower but smarter then when I was young. smart from experience. Figure I'm getting about the right age for the right level of physical and mental ability. Who is gonna be left behind?
It is like the story of the old Buffalo bull and the young Buffalo bull. They come to the top of a ridge and look upon a herd of Buffalo cows. The young buff says let's run down there and get us one of them cows. The old buff looks at him and says, slow down young one. let's walk down there and have at all of them.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Mares Photography on -
I'm 52 and am I better shape than I was 10 years ago. It was hitting 50 that was a wake up call, I bike 26 miles a day 5 days aweek, eat right ,don't smoke, drink once in a blue moon, take supplements, and lift weights. Yet I see teens, twenty year olds and all sorts of ages everyday who are overweight and out of shape, so alot of people won't make it regardless of age. The really old in retirement homes are going to be in danger, unless they are taken to armed safe camps, or somebody armed stays to protect them. You can bet the nurses running those homes will abandon them to be with their own families. Older people like kids are slower and some are on medication that probably will run out, and can no longer be filled.
Stay in shape as you get older not only for a zombie apocalypse but for your own health and well being.
The average age of US Military Special Forces is 10 years older that an average infantryman, and figure most have been in 10 -15 years. So we have guys in Afghanistan humping those hills in their 40's and 50's.
Age is just a number ; )
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Permalink Reply by Ron Salter on -
Yah! I'm not the oldest!
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Permalink Reply by the jack o' lantern on -
i am 14 i work out 3 days a week, take vitamins, drink protien bike 5 days a week never smoked hate drinking never done drugs don't eat fast food, i eat mainly meat beans potatoes and veggies, with lots of milk as a side. my friend is 13 and out of shape, he can shoot but he is not very accurate with iron sights, and is kinda not too bright
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Permalink Reply by M on -
As a youngin of LZ I think it would honestly depend on the persons and condition and what they had to offer. I would love the company of some wise, grey haired, bearded dude with a shotgun. Someone to tell stories around the campfire, share his knowledge and skills and debate and discuss history with. Because, well no offense but in my mind that's one of my favorite uses of older folk, said in the least offensive sense my dears. I don't think I'd take on some older person who kept to themselves or was painfully slow or painfully depressing. They would be luggage more than anything. Since most young people have a older figure they look up to I don't think you older folks would get left out, because us youngins would still be looking for older figures to look up to and to some extent have a parental purpose. Someone who's had their fair share of good and bad times, knows plenty about the world to give you some wise words and some encouragement here and there. I don't think the world would die out to just the sort of 20-40 age group, I'm sure that there would still be a spread in the age of mankind.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Mares Photography on
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There's a scene in Book of Eli when Solara asked Eli his age, because it was so unusual to see older people after their apocalypse. He's only three years older than me lol
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Permalink Reply by Ron Salter on
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They may not see me but they'll feel my presence between the eyes :)
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Permalink Reply by Death Dealer on -
My team already has a plan for noncombatants, the second an infection reaches our area we will begin evacing the elderly and any others who cant fight out of the hot zone to safe areas which we already have prepared, that being said anyone who would wish to stay and fight is more than welcome.
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Permalink Reply by Rc S. Reptile on -
50 is not that old... i am 18 and i see that... my dad died at 58 and he was in great health! I assume that until you start to see your body slow down in front of your eyes you will be fine. Until you can't move faster than the zeds that is or bring a gun to bear...
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Permalink Reply by Laz on -
I'm sure we can russel up some wheelbarrows to move you about in :D
lol kj, I think age (within reason, ie 80+) isn't much of a problem, I mean you only have to be able to walk slightly faster than a stumble and you will be ok. Getting old does bring in certain questions such as medication for problems that can be serious without them, ie angina or flu shots etc but the same can apply to a lot of people regardless of age
I think the main issue of survivability will be mental strength, so unless you are severely compromised by your body (fitness, medical needs such as diabetes etc) I dont think age will come into it
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Permalink Reply by Alice on -
I think that it depends on the age, health and fysical ability. I think that my max age would be 70. But also olderly people with a handicap (not able to walk in particulair), they will not be found in my group. And I wonder how 70+ people would react to a Z-apoc, since they have lived thru WWII. Maybe they would do a mass suicide, I know enough elderly poeple from my work who would do that. They always say that they don't want to go thru all that again. Maybe they just give up, and don't even fight.
Though I would also like 70+ people in my group who are fit, and know how to handle a gun.
But I guess that all the people who can be usefull to the group are welcome.
And I will not raid people. I don't steal from other surviviours. I only take from the dead, or stores.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel on -
My grandfather is 75 and I'd trust him over most people age 20-35. He's been wrung through the wringer in Korea and gone through much in his time. He may not be as fast or as strong as he was, but that tough old man would out fight any of the people I work with. Wouldn't really expect that from the kindest man I've ever met though. :P
I'd stay by his side until that option is taken from me.
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