Survivors

Last night I watched survivors on the BBC with Max Beesley in, who is rather fit if I might say so...!

I love watching programmes like this where everyone dies or turns into Zombies etc and survivors are left all alone. It makes you think 'what would I do?' etc and makes you realise how much humans need other human company as straight away my thoughts are always, they need to find other survivors! I think humans would find it very hard to survive alone especially emotionally, If it was me I would think, what's the point in surviving if I'm all alone for the rest of my life? Its funny because I remember in one of my psychology lectures the lecturer pointed out that if a human was locked in a room for the rest of their life with everything they needed to survive i.e. food, clean water they would go crazy from loneliness (well there may be a few people who would enjoy it very much but not many) whereas if lots of people were put in a room together with everything they needed, they would also go crazy from the lack of privacy, freedom, space and alone time. Humans are funny things really.

The second thing to consider once you had found other humans would be how you were going to actually survive. There are the basics such as clean water, food, warmth, defences if zombies are trying to kill you... but also from other people. This is the other mystery of humans, if a disaster struck and it was a happy American film, everyone would help each other and sacrifice their own lives to save another. In reality people would attack each other, rape each other and do anything to save themselves, perhaps even kill one another (see the film 28 days later to see this in action). This is also known as survival of the fittest. You would think that because humans are intelligent that they would be able to think beyond this and work together to survive but I don't think they would. Look at the hurricane that was in America the other year (I don't know it's name or what year it was), but people were staying in town halls etc because their homes had been destroyed and they were robbing one another and raping women and girls. I remember hearing it on the news and been disgusted that humans could do that to one another in a crisis.

Even getting clean water and food would be a difficult or lighting a fire. Yes you can get stuff from supermarkets but this would run out eventually, I don't know how to make a fire without a match or grow vegetables etc. I would be totally useless!

Then of course there is the issue of my cf, I mean if I did survive then I'd be pretty screwed. Without anyone making my medication I need and no doctors around I don't think I'd be feeling very positive! I could get things from a chemist but to be fair they have to order most of my stuff in anyway! Where does it come from? some magical drugs supplying place. Even if I managed to get it, stuff expires, stuff needs refrigerating, somehow I don't think I'd be able to have iv's lol.

I have this theory that people have cf to protect them from some future plague, there are theories that the cf gene was developed to protect people against cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis#Theories_about_the_prevalence_of_CF)

So here's my idea: everyone dies from a plague or turns into zombies (take your pick) apart from people with cf, perhaps cf carriers too, although I'm not sure about that part. We have to keep human life going, oh dear... We will be lucky if we live long enough to fulfill our destiny, we get out of breath easily (not good if your running away from zombies or trying to build a house or something) most males with cf are infertile and most females without medication probably wouldn't be healthy enough to reproduce, if they managed to get pregnant in the first place. Plus we can't go near each other because of cross infection..... In this case evolution would suck.

Anyway like I say, these programmes/films get me thinking, far, far too much.....I'm sorry that the end result is you reading my waffle and wasting your day :o)

Here's a picture of Will Smith playing Chinese whispers with a zombie, if I was the last person on earth with Will Smith I think i'd feel abit better... :o) xxx