@Sven the Silent Don't worry. Brian is about to meet his maker in my next post. xD

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I thought it should be a bit tame, since it's just somewhat the introduction posts I guess haha.

@Pripovednik
That much posts in 15 days daamn

@Inertia 489 of it was pointless... (It wasn't but help me be modest!!!)

@Inertia 489 of it was pointless... (It wasn't but help me be modest!!!)

Monty Python too, nice

@Inertia Cut me open, more inside than blood and bone, splash of fire and ice!! (I don't blame you if you dont get the quote)

@Inertia But thankyou

I'm currently working on another post as soon as I am done sending a pm to Penguin about some things I am looking to clarify for his roleplay so I can finish a sheet.

Now to continue with information needed to survive the apocalypse. When looking for medical supplies most people will take simple things like Neosporin, bandaids, bandage wraps, peroxide, first aid tape, pain pills, and so on and so forth. What is left behind is prescription medicines, maybe some gauze pads, self-adhering wraps, and pain relief ointments. What you don't want to do is collect the prescription meds. Prescription medicines might be a good idea short term but unless you have a medical professional with your group you don't want to takes pills just according to what you feel is fitting. Prescriptions can be highly addicting and what you don't want to deal with in the apocalypse is an addiction to a drug which has gone out of production. What you need will be the pain relief ointments, specifically the kind for joint pain. This way you can relieve the pain you endure from intense physical work everyday in your group.

If you find an unopened box of gauze pads or gauze wrap then take it. Gauze in general is a good idea to have as it is a sterile bandage that is very easy to use and very flexible. You don't want bandaids to cover large wounds on your body since they restrict the flow of air which hinders the coagulation of blood. To go on a short spiel here, oxygen sticks to blood causing it to turn red but also changes the density of blood allowing it coagulate better. Self-adhering wraps are mostly for covering over the gauze but some have bandaged sides so it can be used as a bandage. You want to pick up things for long term survival as well. These include fiber supplements, diarrhea relief, various vitamins and supplements, cold and flu medicine, and cough drops. If there is a person who smokes in your group, get nicotine and wean them off smoking so that they don't hinder the group.

That is all I'll give y'all today. Perhaps at one point I'll open a guide in the Articles and Guide forum about surviving an apocalypse at this rate. What do y'all think?

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Scarily accurate, are you looking for an actual zombie apocalypse?

@Rae Zer Well...I know who I will be running to crying when the walkers getta walking.

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Scarily accurate, are you looking for an actual zombie apocalypse?

Nah, I'm mostly a walking encyclopedia. I spent a good two years in a club at my school who's focus was on medical fields and studies as part of competitions. When I joined, my competition happened to be epidemiology. So, the spread of viruses is particularly my area but I know some rather important medical needs for a long term infection because of it. Tends to happen when you read about twenty articles in a single year from many different authors over time who believe a mass scale pandemic is possible and the chance is increasing as time goes on.

@Rae Zer Future looking bright

@Rae Zer So far i'm seeing common knowledge more then ''walking encyclopedia.'' So I challenge you to provide me with something I did not know yet. :) (All fun and games of course, not hating.)

@Sven the Silent Common Knowledge where you are from perhaps. In America medical knowledge such as the above is rather rare to find from the common populace. I'll look for something to impress you with. If I can't find something then I'll turn to my brother, he is more of an encyclopedia than I am.

@Pripovednik Not really a nerd, I just have basic knowledge about first aid. He'll knock me out of the park with actual virus knowledge, how they work and what not. I however do have the common knowledge of treating infections, wounds and what not.

@Sven the Silent First off Nerd isn't a bad thing. (I was joking also) and this should be good...

*raises hand shyly* Ninety percent of what I've read so far is common sense here too and I'm only like maybe five or six hours from the border to the United States. The only thing I didn't know was the alcohol percentages, I just knew I could use hard liquor to clean wounds.

Basic common sense from the UK! (y) (which is rare altogether)

There are two basic shapes of bacteria that you'll see quite often. There is bacilli which is rod shaped and cocci which is circular shaped. Clusters of cocci together form three common forms. These forms are diplococci, staphylococci, and streptococci. But, there are also the forms of spirillum(Corkscrew) and vibro(C or comma) which appear along side the cocci and bacilli. Unlike their viral cousins, bacteria produce far faster and are far easier to cure in most cases than viruses. Influenza is a virus which comes in three forms. The most common form in Influenza A and are classified by using H a number and N then a number. It is the fast growing virus and perhaps one of the most dangerous if left untreated in the winter time. Influenza can cause progression into bronchitis by weakening the immune system. If the bronchitis goes untreated then pneumonia can form as well. Pneumonia causes approximately four million deaths a year so in the apocalypse catching such a disease without the possibility of treatment by anti-viral or antibiotics means a near certain chance of death.

So how about that Sven?

Edit: Also, if you know Legionnaires disease than you might be surprised about this. Legionnaires disease was discovered at a meeting for people of some Legion or another here in America. I don't quite remember who they were but after their dinner, many people started to express symptoms of Legionnaires. After some epidemiologist was sent into study, it was discovered that the cause was from the food. Primarily a salad was the culprit. The lettuce which had been used had been watered by a singular pipe at a farm containing a bacteria. The plant which produced the lettuce had not known about the bacteria which managed to mostly survive their cleaning system. What did survive, was capable of reproduction inside the bags. So, when the dinner was held the bacteria was primed and ready to infect a new host and thus travel to humans.

Edit2: Actually to clear the above up I must say that Legionnaires is technically caused by bacteria in aerosolized water. So technically it is true as the above.

@Rae Zer I knew around 70% of that :)