"And also I don't think the insects will feed on the Zeds, but if they do would they become infected?"

"why wouldn't they many insects are carrion eaters - its why you rarely see dead animals in the wild - and no insects have a completely different immune structure than humans - it's why we die in radiation and they don't - ours is based on soft tissues such as bone marrow which is vunrable - also - one thing everyone always seems to forget is varrious governments cold war preperations - the idea most survivalist have is that they will move to areas unaffected - isolated by wind patterns and stone - from fallout - but the governement said "hey thats a good idea" and reversed it - to defend the cities- now the survivalist compound safehavens are littered with nuclear reactor fuel storage areas - and it takes quite a long time for them to be deemed safe (its where depleted uranium munitions come from) that old pre 1970's thinking is a death trap - because once the power grids gone - the emergency gens in the cooling pumps will work for a week - so their safehavens will become nuclear deadzones - after ww2 - a large amount of ddt and a more infamous chemical of nazi origins which shall remain namless was spread - to prevent superabundance of insects and birds due to carrion - my basic argument is know whats in your area and plan accordingly just hunkering down will not be very useful - most areas will be more dangerous after the zombies have died out (gotta love bacteria and bugs) than from the initial zombies. - northern canada will be a safehaven- where i will roam - but you need to know how to survive. you need LOTS of information to survive - observing nature will also help you avoid catastophy - animals survive without all our modern equipment - mirgatory patterns shifted in the ukraine after chernobyl- oh and the bacteria that decompses you is already in your digestive system they go wild at death so zombies have an expriation date"

"the only reasons i wouldn't use the settlers way is simple - with large amouints of carrion - the instect population will explode and they are attracted to large quantities of easily obtainable food - argiculture without tech is hard and with others eating the crops whom you just can't shoot away - next do you know how to farm? do you know you have to let manure decompose before use so it doesnt render any root vegitables inedible - the mods i'll make to vehicles are simple and are based on those done by the soviet army - look at the road system in russia beyond the cities to understand - its non existant full of ditches and well honestly the scars of ww2 ( gotta love countries that use rail more than roads still) - also with fixed locations you could easily be cut off from supplies needed - seiges anyone? and if i passed your property i'd just probably trade some of my surplus with you =/ basic economics would help everyone i believe - and as for small numbers of experts - well see i'd be teaching people the skills i've amassed over the years - i have the advantage of looking at the whole of human history to see what i can do in varried situations. One thing no one mentions in agriculture is soil depletion - in 3 years how will you maintain fertility including oxygenation of the soil? fertilizers aren't enough - what will you do with the contamination of your water supply by green algea? caused by use of chem fertlizers - among other contaimiants "

"how are you going to deal with the need for soil airation? how much land can you work? what tools ? how will you irrigate? what will you do with all that toxic algea if you use modern fertilizers - its pumped away now - what will you do with the insects that will be in superabundance due to the carion? pestisides are mostly air droped or high pressure sprayed? powergrid is dead remember. know how to make a plow? what about cloth? what are you going to do when the native speicies reasert themselves over the domesticated plants? going to take a lot of time to pull em all out by hand? what are you going to do about deminishing returns and genetic bottleneck? what will you do if its too wet or dry - how will you preserve the seeds prep em for replanting? what are you going to do about the explosion in the bird population caused by the explosion in the insect population? no seeds for you if you can't figure that one out, what about disease ( most virus jumps occur from birds by the way)
where are you going to get your resources such as salt - try keeping high yeild livestock without it - erosion anyone? what about that - modern factory agri process have compounded that problem, how will you control the weather? to wet to dry your crops die - how will you defend the large area needed for agriculture - what will you do when the storage pools in nuke reactors run out of cooling water? radioactice smoke anyone? - guessing your american and don't know the possitions of your countries nuke reactors - the waste fuel is very hot and will be a nasty surprise when the pumps stop working - your thinking to much about zombies and not about whats needed to actually survive and not at all about the dangers caused by the decay of modern tech."

"manure use depends on crops - whatcha gunna grow - it can cause bad bad bad things in certain root crops - when do you drop it on feilds ? you may be allowing it to compost and not know it also =/ i think we need to all be more specific =/ "

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I wll miss coffee once it cant be salvaged anymore."

"For me, the ideal scenario would be to have a semi-nomadic community. We would have numerous well hidden BOLs, easily defendable. "