Why You Wouldn't Survive HBO's The Last Of Us Zombie Apocalypse



Our first remastered look into a zombie (InFeCtEd) apocalypse with a whole new revamped way of spreading the cordyceps brain infection thanks to the new HBO television live action series. How different does the idea of cordyceps in our global wheat supply and producing mile long tendril networks underground instead of spores change things up for our grand scheme of survival? And how does that equate thing to how YOU wouldnt survivE? Today we return to the Last of Us universe to discuss just that!

Intro song: THE LAST OF US – Classical Guitar Cover (Beyond The Guitar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA61t6KOTx0

0:00 Montage and Intro
4:03 The Cordyceps Origins and difference from games
8:11 How/why it spread so fast and its effects
10:59 Cordyceps Zombification and its mutations
13:24 Clicker variants
14:10 Bloater Variants
15:56 Cordyceps hivemind fungal networks
17:51 Where they will go and what they will do over time
19:41 Why HBO cordyceps is more OP than the game
21:02 Day One of the outbreak and society
22:35 Why You Wouldnt Survive summarized
29:32 Outro

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40 thoughts on “Why You Wouldn't Survive HBO's The Last Of Us Zombie Apocalypse”

  1. Not including the spores made a lot of sense; they’d have to wear masks the entire show & no one wanted to see that. On top of that, the game only had the spores inside of places; which isn’t realistic because spores in real life are literally in the air as we speak.

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  2. The most terrifying part is that the fungus will only grow more adaptive over time. It literally never stops. Who’s to say it doesn’t adapt to these hotter environments the same it was able to end up being able to live inside the human body? It’s terrifying

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  3. with how scarce the infected are in the show… I mean they seem pretty close to extinction, they aren't much of a wide-spread threat to humans. Humans are more of a threat to humans than infected. So basically if you survive the initial outbreak… I'd say it would be kinda easy to survive given that there's barely any infected according to the show. episode 5 is the last time we ever see any infected in present day.

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  4. It takes 3 weeks for cordyceps to sporulate and there is no reason that antimycotic medications wouldn't be effective against them. The real truth of the matter is that (once again) the zombie apocalypse wouldn't survive us.

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  5. Well I'm Australian so the gun thing wouldn't be an issue, I also live right next to the bush so we would probably go north coastal, the hardest thing would definitely be finding food with the lack of guns, however we have fishing rods so I guess I'd try that, you'd definitely want to be good friends with some indigenous Australians since they have hunted and foraged for thousands of years. But I do think the harsh conditions would get me before the fungus haha

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  6. So the Ellie being a mean thing game theory actually has a couple of really good vids on both why they Couldn't have made a cure Even if everything had gone their way and also a really good one on ellies Immunity.

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  7. I’m an ICU nurse and this topic made me extremely curious. We have a protocol called “targeted temperature management” that is used when a patient meets all the requirements after a heart attack where we lower their core body temperature anywhere from 89° to 96°F for 24 hours and then we slowly warm them back up to 98.6°F after that time period has been reached. It’s done to hopefully slow the cascade of inflammation and damage that happens in the brain, potentially slowing irreversible brain damage. This makes me wonder if someone could potentially be infected while being cooled, which, of course I would assume the fungus would die once they reach normothermia. However, just something that made me think 😅

    Similarly, I wonder if (in the case of the show) you could warm the body once infected to kill the fungus. Although someone would need to find the temperature threshold of the mutated cordyceps and hopefully it is within a parameter that the human body can withstand. Like maybe putting someone in a sauna to raise core body temperature 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

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  8. In relation to the hive mind part, along with their body is deteriorating and becoming some sort of signal up to a mile away blah blah blah blah blah, I’m kind of curious why don’t they just burn the bodies they find? Granted what it probably still alert any infected up to a mile away, probably but at the same time it would help us stop the spread in some aspect right?? Or at least cripple the communication between all the infected within that mile radius of where you Burnt the corpse/fungus

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