Dawn of the Dead (2004) 15 years after the outbreak...
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The problem is the outbreak occurred overnight. That made containment harder. Before we know, major cities in the Philippines were probably experiencing outbreaks before radiating out to the rural portions and other island provinces. The PNP and the AFP could not contain it. Not in their bad state in 2004.
Davao would have been overrun even if a certain mayor with a vigilante death squad hunted down the infected as they got too much.
For starters, the AFP still used old M16s and M14s from the Vietnam War. Some of these Elisco M16s were prone to jamming. Many were refitted with A2 handguards just to look new. If memory serves, FMS provided some refurbished M16 surplus from the United States.
The average soldier in the 2000s looked like this. Picture taken in 2003. Notice there is no protection from bites, no load bearing vests, and the soldier is using a boonie hat for head protection.
Here's a photo of Philippine Marines in 2004 during Balikatan of that year, held in March.
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Surely survivor communities would be looking back at how life was before the outbreak. Especially since it's still the early 2000s.
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Since Eurovision will be held on May of 2004. This contest will be the last one at that time when there’s an unraveling outbreak.
When in May 2004? The outbreak began in small numbers on the 6th, but became global on the 7th.
Meanwhile in the Philippines, the reelection of GMA was only three days away. I doubt she would have survived the hell of Metro Manila.
Eurovision might start between May 12 to 15 at the time when the outbreak began and therefore they will continue or either forcibly cancel for the last time before things will go dark and in the aftermath, with no or nil chances of making any attempts to revive the contest. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas could either become one of the lost media or a delayed project that can be released whether it is in 2012 or 2016.
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Eurovision is definitely gone.
GTA: San Andreas would be lost media.
The world by 2012-2016 will look like The Walking Dead, full of vegetation and potholes on the roads.
Maybe it will get better by the turn of the mid-21st century if zombie remnants are already gone and it will take decades before society could go back to pre-May 2004 levels.
It will take probably a century. Think of it as the Black Death in Europe.
It's gonna be like a nuclear war without the zombies. One poster back then mentioned about nuclear plants in the U.S. having a meltdown since the outbreak happened so fast. So even there are no use of nuclear weapons except in China, there is still radiation leaks to be worried about.
Or possibly a European Dark Ages where the number of cultural artifacts decreased in numbers or activity has been reduced further down while those countries who survived the pandemic may not last long as warlords or rivals could become powerful and start bickering with each other, thus disintegrating the central authority for their own defenses. Just think about the fate of Roman Britannia when it was based on a disputed Rescript of Honorius, if the survivor nations couldn't sustain their rivalries, then survivors and its descendants will look to their own defenses.
I can't say much for Europe but most likely overrun as the news reports show London and Instanbul being overrun.
Perhaps some survivor states may have held up in the castles and mountains such as the Alps, Pyrenes, Bavaria, and the Carpanthians.
I can't imagine some paintings were lost since the outbreak was overnight. I hope the Mona Lisa wasn't one of them.
Whats the chances , the zombies (infected or what ever) break up in the 15 years?
The zombies were pretty bad in a month's time (June 2004). One fanfic even said most of them have died out by August 2004 and the rest of the shamblers rotted away by 2009-2010.
@Resurgam pointed out the world won't be going back to 2003-2004 levels. The outbreak in the movie collapsed civilization in 24 hours. The world would resemble the ones you see in The Walking Dead and The Last of Us.
Possibly, yes.
It will take a lifetime or more just to go back to pre-outbreak early 2000s society with cable TV and internet.
It was mentioned in the news report that the President and cabinet members were being evacuated to an undisclosed location. Said location could either be any of the known COG places such as Mount Weather in Virginia, the STRATCOM bunker beneath Omaha, Nebraska, or the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Alternatively, the remnants of the federal government could have been evacuated on an aircraft carrier or held up in either Alaska or Hawaii.