FoxKnight wrote:I understand your logical arguments but neither of those options you suggested seem viable to escape the invasion. Heading to the ocean/sea would only work for a week at best on a small boat unless you plan to find/hijack/use your own ship and supply it with necessary items and fuel, (depending on the vessel), which could only last you a few months at sea. The first thing to deplete would be water, then food, and you'd have to risk going back to refuel and resupply over and over.
The boat was my Plan A. The idea was not to stay out there forever, but to either wait until the conditions on land were more to my liking, or to travel along the coast until I found a place where replenishing my supplies would be easier to do (there are towns in MA that literally have waterfront convenient stores). I would never expect to find a place that is always free of zombies/werewolves all the time, but I would expect every area to be free of werewolves once in a while. I wouldn't expect to be able to stay out in the ocean for life, but I could choose when and where I go back on land.
And again, this is my Plan A: What I'd do
immediately after an outbreak. The boat is temporary; I wouldn't be locking myself into a single location and strategy, but rather give myself some additional time and capacity to better prepare myself for the long term.
Also, I don't think it'd be right to say that werewolves could live in Canada just because regular wolves live there. That assumes that werewolves have identical instincts, mindsets and survival strategies as regular wolves. And you know what? The more intelligent and adaptive the werewolves turn out to be, the less I'll be worrying about the possibility of becoming one myself. If werewolves have the capacity for family structure, coordinated hunting and communication, I'm going to be wondering less how to keep them away and more if I should even bother doing so at all.
Everything I discussed being wrong about the desert strategy, however, would still be true if we were talking about zombies. The difficulty of survival in the subarctic regions or out at sea would be directly proportionate to the mental capacity of the werewolves in question, and as I said, the smarter they are, the less I worry about becoming one myself. The problems with the desert strategy you just mentioned, however, would be serious problems no matter how dumb the werewolves turned out to be.
I don't really buy the idea of the desert giving you the best chance of staying human either, once again because, as I said, there are little to no natural resources out there. If you know how to fish, the ocean would provide a steady food supply, and in the snowy regions, you could supply water by collecting snow and letting it melt. The desert has
no natural, easy-to-collect resources; everything you live off of would have to have been stockpiled in advance (which you couldn't do on short notice, and which only crazy gun-loving Glenn Beck followers are doing now). Life in the desert would take a crapload of time and money to be produce effective results for; the only way it would work would be if the werewolves were kind enough to tell you
in advance about the upcoming werewolf apocalypse (and if they were smart enough to do that, I wouldn't worry about becoming one anyway).