The Global Cordyceps Outbreak | The Last of Us (HBO)

[@KeyIssues]

What country does the best in the global mushroom pandemic outbreak?

[@nisoldi]

USA BABY!!!!!! Just kidding the whole story is in the US and they are screwed.

[@purplebugfoot456]

Switzerland

[@Pedant_Patrol]

Somewhere in Africa.

[@MethosFilms]

My canada would in the winter. Regardless of what zombie or infected it is our bodies will still freeze. They would freeze

[@neogeo1670]

norway because of the harsh winters and forrests and mountains are everywhere here

[@dfailsthemost]

I really dug the military guy. I love that he wasn't a tropey hard-ass. He was like an anti-trope. Courteous, open, and deeply afraid. Even the drastic measures suggested were horrifying to him.

[@texasred2702]

Because he knew they were all screwed. The doctor was literally his last hope the outbreak could be contained and life might return to normal.

[@-Askar-]

We being an idiot though bro was a police chief😂

[@dfailsthemost]

@@-Askar- maybe he was. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to Indonesian martial authority hierarchy and jurisdiction.

[@gorillabum4182]

​@@-Askar- I'm Indonesian and I'm pretty it was military not police

[@-Askar-]

@@gorillabum4182 Thanks for the correction brother

[@Zoxxies]

I’m glad their delving into the Outbreak, it’s my personal favourite part of the show, I just love how every episodes intro so far is about the infection. It’s something the games barely tapped into and I’m glad they are doing it in the show because I love that shit.

[@TheeeKg]

I thing it going to be like this every episode

[@Zoxxies]

@@TheeeKg I hope so, the intro to the first episode hammered home what would happen if cordyceps were to mutate and the 2nd episodes intro delved into what happened at the very start, hopefully in the following episodes we see how everything went to shit and how the cordyceps went around the world and infected everyone as fast as it did that would be awesome to see as we got none of that in the games.

[@captainbroady]

@@Zoxxies I predict episode 3 would be about full all-out chaos. Maybe a military checkpoint being overrun or something like that

[@muumi4u]

@@captainbroady 💀

[@captainbroady]

@@muumi4u I predicted wrong LOL

[@jorgea4810]

I wish one day we can get a show that focuses solely on the first couple of hours into a zombie outbreak. This is for me the most interesting part of any form of apocalypse.

[@lunar_trooper]

Have you ever read the book World War Z? It goes country by country from start to finish of the "zombie war"

[@jorgea4810]

@@lunar_trooper Not yet, but will definitely check it out. Thanks!

[@zacharybrazeau9218]

You would also probably like Fear The Walking Dead. It’s a prequel to TWD and is set a couple days before and then after the initial outbreak in LA

[@jorgea4810]

@@zacharybrazeau9218 I absolutely loved this one! The subtle hints that something major was going on was amazing. I just wish we could have seen more of the military's ops within the city.

[@izuela7677]

Since the zombies are alive I imagine they are not just vulnerable to cold, like in Canada, but also dehydration. So there might be some outposts in hot&dry climates, provided they can secure the water.

[@staydetermined6717]

Probably different infected to handle said conditions

[@LucasDimoveo]

@@staydetermined6717 I don’t imagine evolution would move that quickly. I can’t think of a mushroom that could survive in Sedona for example

[@filipberger2979]

@@LucasDimoveo due the fact that cordyceps could adapt to human thanks to global warming, those dry and hot places will be even more dry and hot

[@thebluestyx]

That's probably true, but from tlou part 2, they added infected being migratory. So I'm not really sure Canada would be 100% safe, as they can probably swarm during summer, and migrate away during winter. Now, assuming infected can survive for 20+ years, as in the show Joel said some infected can survive that long, and rat king is an infected that has survived for 20+ years. It's difficult for humans to settle in places with "extreme" conditions for 20+ years without support/supply from other places. Not to mention, if spores being a vector of infection like in game, with physics being more realistic, all of us would just become infected in like a month pretty much everywhere around the world except those extreme places anyway.

[@Aztesticals]

@filipberger2979 sorry. Fungus really does need moisture. More than most organisms. We really don't see many fungi at all in the desert. You might find 1000 species of fungus in one handful of soil in say the middle of Europe or America. You might not find any in a handful of Sahara sand

[@CCD2938]

The South America part makes “I miss coffee” make sense. Can always make soda or something but coffee needs the beans there

[@joshuagraham2843]

yeah because coffee are more addicting than tea

[@joshuagraham2843]

but sadly brazil is now a hostile place in last of us universe

[@emmano6340]

@@joshuagraham2843 Sadly

[@rafaelalodio5116]

@@joshuagraham2843 I think the whole world is in that universe.

[@scp-2348]

Can coffee trees grow in florida?

[@theprofessional155]

Wouldn’t the mountains of Wyoming be safe as the fungus wouldn’t be able to grow there ? Wouldn’t the cold just kill the infected in the winter?

[@KyleF841]

I thought the infected migrated from areas from time to time

[@hayemiranda7647]

I think they get dormant during winter

[@zerodawn0994]

@@hayemiranda7647 they don't go dormant, there are many scenes of infected in the winter time during both the first and second game.

[@andreworiez8920]

A *gasp* actual Wyomingite here... yes one of the 581,390 people who actually live in this state. Our summers can get pretty warm, but they are dry (as evidenced by the lightening show whenever I pet my cats with the lights off at night)...as for the mountains... yeah cool, thin and extremely dry, thin air (lowest elevation is still over 3,000ft asl) in the summer, and bitter cold snowing winters. Fungus can survive in a dormant state until late-spring early summer when snowmelt causes massive areas of alpine marsh and wet lands before the water drains off. We're also kinda gun crazy up here....

[@fenrirgg]

The fungus change the physiology and metabolic needs of the bodies, they become very resistant and water and nutrients can be shared among the fungus networks. I guess that's what is happening in the show.

[@samia6888]

I actually took Cordyceps as a supplement and was always scared (way before this show came out but I have siblings who played the game and I wanted to know what it was about and to my surprise I found out it was Cordyceps that caused the pandemic) but the energy it gave me was incredible. 😢 I used to not even be able to get out of bed and slept all day long and thought I had depression. Took it for energy and it exceeded my expectations.

[@RealBradMiller]

It won't harm you! Cordyceps and lion's mane mushroom... Mmmmm!

[@paul7432]

@@RealBradMillerBro, if it did mutate like in TLOU, Samia would be so peeved off at you rn (being trapped in their mind)

[@KeyIssues]

NICE TRY CORDYCEPS PERSON! I didn’t know the fungus could adapt to use KZbin but here we are and I am onto your new methodology!

[@RealBradMiller]

@@paul7432 Lol as long as I don't have to go to work, I'm cool with it, honestly...🍄🌚

[@daisy22ma]

it's actually part of a different family! cordyceps and ophiocordyceps (the ones from tlou) are mostly unrelated- you're good! 😅

[@cybersoldierforever]

I'm not ordering pizza with mushrooms on them next time.

[@mosesmkandawire3032]

Lolol 😄😅

[@wetalkeverything0330]

Lucky for you. It’s in the bread 😉

[@coods1013]

Its not the mushrooms you should be worried about

[@goodluck2119]

You should ask them whether the flour they use came from Latin American or jakarta

[@geenaxion]

Pizza has flour so you're not in the clear. Lol 😂

[@333dae]

idea: an anthology style spin-off called the last of them depicting short stories of survivors around the globe

[@mrjdgibbs]

That's basically world war z the book

[@kan8155]

Tales of The Last of Us 🔥🔥🔥

[@JadeyJ4d3y]

I think the whole fungus thingy starting in Indonesia makes sense as it’s pretty close to the equator and its also pretty hot and humid there, so that the fungus could’ve adapted to the temperature there like the dude from the beginning of episode 1 said

[@miguelangel1129]

Plus the real cordyceps that infects ants is from southeast asia

[@JadeyJ4d3y]

@@miguelangel1129 Huh I actually didn’t know that lol

[@FebiMaster]

It's not pretty close, it's IN the equator, equatorial line goes straight through it

[@luftwaffles-16]

The infected bu ratna was inspecting was in jakarta(its in Jawa or Java), so you are kinda correct for saying its near the equatorial line. But, Kalimantan, Sumatera, Sulawesi are the bigger islands that crosses the equator.

[@mdviIa]

Wrong. It's because Jakarta has the biggest grain producing factory in the world and the cordysceps first spread thru grain/flour foods (4 example, in the start of the show u can see a bit of foreshadowing when joel and ellie avoid food like cookies and cake.)

[@abeard1]

WHO being unable to do their job is most realistic thing to me

[@KeyIssues]

It’s almost like we just…

[@nick8874]

what does that even mean

[@scp-2348]

Ofc, they fail. It's just a philantrophic whitewashing scheme by the pharma corporations in their member states.

[@Soul-qo4jk]

@@nick8874 world health organization

[@jasxnuwu4539]

So just gonna assume that the infection is most widely spread along the equator. Warmer and high humidity. The further u go into the cold or dry areas the less likely the cordyceps fungus to survive

[@inkedseahear]

You know, since the show places the outbreak in 2003, if everything else line up as IRL. The US (and other nations) would have a lot of their best troops still in the Middle East, probably a good reason why it fell so quickly.

[@Samsonig]

thats actually a good theory

[@mylameusername1890]

Huh isn’t outbreak in the game set in 2013?

[@Abnormal_Ninetales]

@@mylameusername1890 yeah, but the outbreak in the HBO show took place in 2003

[@russkatherealoriginal6904]

"Alot of their best troops." Did you forget literal home defense? Just because they have troops in the Middle east doesnt mean they would be weak.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

​@@russkatherealoriginal6904 Because we all know, random people with guns are great at fighting zombie hordes and would definitely not get overwhelmed by numbers.

[@Jarod-te2bi]

0:45 when an expert in a certain type of fungal infection, a scientist, who is probably highly qualified in their field tell the government to bomb cites, you know it’s serious

[@zacthesecretweapon9931]

A little easter egg in Part 2 In one of the section after half the game, theres a map of the world on a wall. Theres 3 hotspot on it. - One is at Jackson/Boston (I can't remember wich one i can't find an image of the map) (First game location) - Second is in Seattle (where most of part 2 takes place) - Third is somewhere in Europe If theres a part 3 , it might take place in Europe.

[@crazybabuskaman3923]

That’s acc Crazy but how our girl Ellie gonna travel to Europe? I want to see more of her, but they might start with new characters

[@zacthesecretweapon9931]

@@crazybabuskaman3923 i have no idea

[@KeyIssues]

That would be dope! I’ll check it out!

[@kevingutierrez9273]

Probably the UK or Ireland, I mean for practical reasons.... seriously, you can't expect Ellie to suddenly speak French or German with European survivors. It's the only the Irish & the Brits that speak English in Europe tho others speak it as a 2nd language.

[@zacthesecretweapon9931]

@@kevingutierrez9273 yeah maybe.. or sweden

[@SCIFIguy64]

It's just weird to me how every zombie movie has the outbreak happen entirely at once. Even when the disease makes some sense, I still can't wrap my head around how everything just thanos snapped overnight. With covid it took almost three months before lockdowns were suggested in the US, and they weren't enforced all that much. I want a zombie show that shows the slow transition from normalcy to unprecedented levels of decimation, like people know the outbreak is real and can see news footage, but society is still somewhat running until a thread snaps. Show the paranoia from randos shooting and looting when there isn't even a reported case in their town, then slowly thin everyone out with the plane crashes, gridlock and power outages.

[@pietrobandinellibandinelli6139]

the army of the dead (or the army of the thieves, which is the prequel) kinda do that. they are not amazing films tho

[@mrfun177]

this show does at least give a reasonable explanation for why everything when to shit so fast, since the fungus mutated to get into grain/flour and as joel says in the 3rd episode certain products are sold globally and flour is used in a lot of food it would mean a lot of people would get infected by eating tainted food. And in the show there are certain parts that didnt go down the drain instantly, Bills town for example was still a calm place with no infected a week after the outbreak while joels hometown got wrecked overnight.

[@mbaxter22]

Don't overanalyze any zombie scenario and try to make it realistic lol. It's really a dumb family of the apocalypse genre considering how it typically requires suspension of physics and basic chemistry, not to mention suspension of all known germ and microbe theory as well. Be careful what you wish for: a "realistic" zombie movie wouldn't really be a zombie movie at all.

[@russkatherealoriginal6904]

All of Us are Dead gave us a "realistic" zombie movie, although it was a series.

[@zuluech]

The world war Z book does a great job of showing an outbreak like this

[@lucianosilvestri4289]

I really liked this scene in Indonesia, showing how they tried to contain the infection. Usually games, movies and series are very focused on the United States and we don't know what happened in other places.

[@lukedodson3267]

If the bread flour theory is true I'm guessing France was an early loss in the outbreak.

[@moreroidsmoreboys]

Italy is well

[@Uncle-Ruckus.]

most of eu

[@paul81491]

Most flour used in central europe comes from the massive eastern european wheat industries (poland, ukraine, etc). Not so mich from indonesia. So europe might've actually gotten a slower start to it.

[@SorenTheMagi]

Iran as well,almost 98% of Iranians eat bread while having breakfast

[@connorgolden4]

I wonder which countries or regions were better off? Would it be like in world war Z where some did better than others due to isolation or military readiness like North Korea and Israel? Would places that are underdeveloped and sparsely populated like Namibia or Iceland do better because of that or worse due to not having as powerful militaries or as capable scientific communities? Temperature is mentioned so would a place like the Congo be worse off than frozen Russia or Alaska and northern Canada? Or what about very dry and deserted areas also do better off? Would be very interesting to learn about some places doing better than others for various reasons.

[@mymythicdiary]

Considering temperature was strongly spotlighted as a reason for the fungus jumping to humans I would think northern climates would be much less infected as it would be much harder for the fungus to survive with countries like Canada, Nordic countries and Russia being among the least impacted countries

[@staydetermined6717]

@@mymythicdiary Or the infected evolved/changed to handle such conditions look at the certain new infected in the second game for example

[@filipberger2979]

@@staydetermined6717 true but the fungus itself would not be able to adapt to lets say -20 degree Celsius or even less in just 20 to 25 yrs, rember that mushroom was native to warm and humid places

[@staydetermined6717]

@@filipberger2979 Ah but eventually maybe? At one point maybe in the colder climates If your infected the fungus tries to do as much damage as possible before a certain amount of time is up and die? Like how some infects live for 7 days or whatever?

[@ultimatetrex1999]

South korea

[@ibhistory106]

Where I'm in - Siberia because them are not zombies and there's no way the infected will survive - 40 ( and yep - it's that cold that it's the same in C and F)

[@mpac3602]

Fungus can still grow in freezing temperatures, furthermore the infected are being controlled by another organism who isn’t effected by the cold so cold won’t stop them just maybe slow them, just like in TLOU 2.

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

@@mpac3602 the fungus is only surviving in colder places like in the second game because remember , the fungus keeps its host alive until it wants to spread the infection via spores , so the human body is still warm enough to make it survive , but it’s impossible for it to survive in the open in colder places .

[@kevingutierrez9273]

How's your Russian? Siberia is basically, Russian Asia.

[@ibhistory106]

@@kevingutierrez9273 yes, but no. There's been centuries during which everything got mixed a lot - so now there're plenty of (what we refer to as) europeans leave here. There are some local tribes and yes- they remain closely Mongols or Kazakh or any other Asian people - but mostly it's Russia all over and people identify themselves as mostly Russian first and then whatever ethnicity they are

[@rubenfrankish]

Loving the Lorem Ipsum on that newspaper clipping at 1:12

[@LucasDimoveo]

It would be interesting to see places that have fared well because of climate and geography

[@charliemartin-k7m]

I wonder about the Appalachian Mountains there are parts of them where there are no people for miles

[@LucasDimoveo]

@@charliemartin-k7m the issue with the Appalachian Mountains is that it is near the more populated parts of the Midwest, and right next to the east coast mega metropolis. Between people trying to escape and infected migration I imagine the area is saturated with

[@ultraspicypineapple3405]

Botswana and southern Namibia would be fine, those two places are probably too arid to be favorable for the fungus and they have a very low population density

[@kevingutierrez9273]

& since Canada has a personal union with United Kingdom, it is possible that the remnants of the Crown now rules directly & lives there since the UK has probably fallen 20 years into the pandemic. In a real life situation, the Royal Family would have been transferred to Canada if the UK had fallen to the Nazis, this was a protocol during WW2. It would be interesting that if Ellie encounters the Canadian Army which would have a number of British troops in its ranks.

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

The uk is in the same latitude of Canada , so there must be some QZs out there ? And at this point would the royal family still matter ? The USA doesn’t even have a president anymore , it’s just Fedra left .

[@jackparker8602]

Bro do you really think we’re still a colony lmao?

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

@@jackparker8602 Canada is still part of the commonwealth and former queen Elizabeth was recognized as the head of state, so a fleeing protocol to Canada is still valid .

[@kevingutierrez9273]

@@jackparker8602 You know little of your country's politics and history. Canada is not a colony but an independent kingdom within the realm of the Crown. King Charles III of Britain is also your king. He is also your head of state.

[@pancakesnwaffles8767]

@@jackparker8602 yo what

[@bartolomeestebanmurillo4459]

I imagine that there would be variations of infected found in places like Europe or Asia or Africa that are not found in North America due to the different conditions and climates. I hope the games and even the TV series expand on the universe by having a game and/or series taking place in a different country perhaps Canada or even Europe.

[@newfoundlandmapping4493]

It would make sense if many areas of Canada remain relatively as normal as a country could be in this world. For example, my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador is in eastern Canada and has an island portion along with a mainland portion that is only connected by one Highway that stretches 100‘s of kilometres through wilderness. The population here is 520,000 yet our land area is larger than the UK. This makes the population here incredible sprawling with the average population in each municipality having only around 2,500 people per. Also due to our geographical position my province is home to many military installations and a few bases. Newfoundland and Labrador also has a plethora of natural resources such as iron, fish, nickel, copper, lumber, and oil which adds importance in holding it as a land area. All of this without mentioning that the fungus would likely have a harder time surviving in the harsh Winter climate in north-eastern Canada and it gives me all reasons to believe that the place I live would do better than most places in a Last of us type scenario. Or so I like to think.

[@alejandrocarralero2826]

It's specifically said in the show that unlike the game it started in Indonesia, which makes sense since the actual cordyceps fungus is from Asia.

[@johnwalsh4857]

also besides Canada, I think Russia, Northern Europe would survive, Alaska too.

[@zoidburger2830]

one of the things i really wish that apocalypse series should do more is to actually explore what is happening during the beggining of the disaster, when goverments and most of the population are still around

[@davidbasaldua274]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but in that opening scene in TLOU (HBO) the people talk about how the fungi haven't infected humans because our body temperature is too high. So shouldn't warmer climates be more hospitable for humans rather than colder ones?

[@barneyrubble4293]

That same scene implies global warming caused the fungus to adapt and thrive in a higher temperature, like the one’s inside our bodies.

[@dfailsthemost]

Pedro's Texas accent is pretty good. I only knew one person raised in TX, but it was pretty good.

[@kevingutierrez9273]

That's because the guy grew up in San Antonio, Texas. The guy's a real Texan.

[@oliverstianhugaas7493]

Bombing has a suprisingly low impact on containment. What you want to do is the usage of napalm or more destructive "petroleum bombs" that create a mist of burnable vapor before burning. HE bombs on the other hand as seen does little more then create craters, so what can we know for sure? Low population areas are safer then high and as mentioned in the video the more north the safer you are. It is safe to assume that *Iceland, Siberia, Scandinavian peninsula, Northern Japanese islands, North Korea, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Feroese islands, Scotland, Shetland, North Ireland ( If wall is reconstructed ) and Kazhakstan* should be safe.

[@pax6833]

Most world militaries don't have incendiary bombs. Things like that were mostly banned by international treaty with only WP flares being exempt. What would make more sense is the US using chemical weapons to contain the virus as the US had not dismantled its chemical WMDs at that point. I could also see tactical nukes being used to clear outbreak areas like Austin.

[@erichamilton3373]

The outside weather/climate only plays a role to a degree. The inside of the human body is very watm and moist--a microclimate if you will. The infected can find underground or interior dens in cold places. A lot of animals already do this to survive the cold.

[@KeyIssues]

I’m just saying the farther north the less likely it would run rampant

[@Reazzurro90]

I'd wonder if large parts of Europe might be unaffected. Usually don't most European nations import wheat from Ukraine and Russia (Yes, despite the war)?

[@rare1327]

I hope someday HBO do a Spin off, an Outbreak based on another Country 🙏🙏🙏

[@dfailsthemost]

The idea that Canada is thought to be safer overall is cool. Like taking the concept of American sanctuary are pushing it north.

[@kevingutierrez9273]

Not mention to encountering the remnants of the Crown surviving in Canada. After all, the head of state of Canada is King Charles III... meaning, we might encounter a lot of Brits in Canada especially among the ranks of its military.

[@starwraithspacemarine8605]

This infection reminds me of the Flood from Halo.

[@mastergecko1178]

Real cordyceps that can turn insects into zombies is actually a very delicious gourmet mushroom if you grow it on a different medium which is kinda ironic

[@epsilonarcaneresearch1945]

I ain't eating no zombie fungus.

[@emmano6340]

@@epsilonarcaneresearch1945 People say that it even gives some boosts to your immune system and neurological performances, def worth a try

[@maboiputinawasakai7421]

@@emmano6340 no thank you with all due respect

[@ragaboi4103]

@@emmano6340 you cant fool me stage 1 infected

[@emmano6340]

@@ragaboi4103 lmfao xD

[@PittsburghSonido]

Key Issues are soo good at getting the slice of the pie with regards to popular/trending media and content. Love it. Great vid.

[@lolroflroflcakes]

I know it would literally be fan fiction but someone made a video that basically covers the after-effects of the resonance cascade in Half-Life. It goes right from the first hints the outside world gets that something is really wrong in Black Mesa's part of the country, through the governments trying to deal with all the nasty and hostile life from Xen, all the way up to Breen negotiating humanity's surrender. Seeing that for the weekend-long apocalypse Joel describes would be cool, maybe out till the described retreat into the quarantine zones.

[@crispyhoover8880]

The theme of colder climates doing better was in PT2? Iirc I'm sure that Tommy says similar? Problem is mountain, Arctic type zones aren't great for food, at least enough to support a town. People would starve. World War Z (book).

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

It’s hard but still possible, if they want to grow food like vegetables or fruits for example, they would immediately need to plant them by the end of winter and beginning of spring when it’s getting warmer , by autumn it’s probably already giving fruits .

[@REGIMENT157]

@@antoniocarlosoliveira9146 there were green houses in Tommy’s town

[@rickytricky57]

Dina also mentions that the "Ravens" (ex FEDRA soldiers) took over FEDRA in New Mexico

[@guessundheit6494]

How governments react depends a lot of political competency. I'm in Taiwan. Unlike most countries where governments kept blathering about "the economy" instead of stopping the spread of C-19, Taiwan's government took immediate action. And by immediate, I mean testing people for fever at airports in December 2019, sending out warnings which the world ignored. By March 18, the island was closed, and anyone wanting in was subjected to three weeks of quarantine. Compare that with the UK which, as an island had the chance to keep it out but their corrupt and incompetent rightwing government caused 25,000-100,000 unnecessary corpses by deciding to deliberately mix infected elderly people with the uninfected.

[@SuperMathewson]

Southern California, particularly Santa Barbara or Catalina, is not humid. They’re pretty dry places, hence the fires.

[@Jarod-te2bi]

5:20 so many places in Canada 🇨🇦 mite be doing ok!(love being Canadian) this could mean many nations up north like Canada 🇨🇦, UK 🇬🇧, Greenland 🇬🇱, Norway 🇳🇴 Sweden 🇸🇪, Finland 🇫🇮 and Russia 🇷🇺 can I have many thriving military protected, settlements all over because made these countries have serious cold climates not to mention strong military’s.

[@deloreshilton3349]

I actually worked in a big barn in Salem Oregon that was a mushroom growing business. It was tall and they grew in the dark on levels in open bins or cubicles. We dressed like miners. Hat a hat with a light on it. You went up a ladder to the higher floors. This was in the 1960’s. They told us what size mushrooms to pick. It was strange but a job. It had to be kept dark. A big door go open near the top. Sunshine got in and those mushrooms grew out through every crack there was. It was freaky. I quit after that and went to work in a old folks home. Still have a polished stone one of the old men gave me. He was from Germany. I keep it I’m my jewelry box. Always remember him and the mushrooms. I wouldn’t eat one for anything. Was interesting tho. Then I moved back to CA and worked in a laundry and a potato field. Oh, I’m 83. Have a family and friends. Worked for 20 years as a teacher aide. K-8 grades. That made up for the weird mushroom time.

[@deloreshilton3349]

Asked Safari about growing mushrooms in Salem Oregon in the 1960’s. Did get a answer but it was an adventure.

[@deloreshilton3349]

Got to thank KZbin too for Safari. My friend. It answers so many questions for me. Not about the mushrooms tho. Oh well. Memories!!

[@je2409]

Despite knowing so little about the rest of the world outside of the US, TLOU is super heavy on the world building, especially in part II In part 1 we learn about the Fireflies and FEDRA who have bases and camps across the US, raiders in Boston, Philly, Jackson, and Tommy’s settlement as well In part II we learn about the WLF stationed in Washington, a faction that took down FEDRA in their area but is currently at war with another faction the Seraphites. We also learn about the Rattlers who are slavers in Santa Barbara, and the story and characters themselves are so much more numerous and complex. I love TLOU so much

[@logger22]

Given how the infection was in wheat, flour, and sugar, it’s hard to believe that people were able to avoid this. Like we assume Joel and Sarah never ate fast food or drink soda but were lucky enough to miss cake.

[@haruruben]

Most Fungus cannot survive below freezing cold temperatures - but their spores can. So even if the cold of winter kills of all the fungal zombies their spores would wake up in the spring. If you lived in the arctic circle where it’s freezing all year long you’d probably be zombie free. There are some cold-adapted funguses so you’d just have to pray those don’t evolve to control humans

[@bensmall6548]

Can’t imagine the situation in countries of Southern Asia. I presume India and Bangladesh would be death zones.

[@demonicaldamage4309]

I imagine Australia will go straight into a society like mad max lol

[@godking]

Australia should not be as heavily affected as other parts of the wordl due to relatively low population and vast uninhabited areas.

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

@@godking Austrália probably was considering that it possibly imported contaminated food , but mostly likely the west coast survived rather then east , where most of the population is .

[@khoado2060]

@@godking Idk if you know this but people live in cities. Uninhabited areas are uninhabitable now so what makes you think people can go there and live when an outbreak happens?

[@bigskiddy553]

Personally I hope Australia would be ok because we usually have dry summers but it’s also a fairly wet summer now

[@quanage4296]

Well the show outbreak starts in 2003 while the game starts in 2013. Is Australia still considered safe in either of those time lines?

[@Mad_Scot]

4:57 Remember how in last of us part 2 Dina mentioned Jesse wanted to go to Canada? Or how in Santa Barbra lev alluded to the fact she wanted to go visit another country?

[@gordwu9182]

This show has convinced me to go gluten-free

[@m13848]

Its not that realistic...

[@epsilonarcaneresearch1945]

Gluten isn't a fungus though?

[@timjaeger6589]

@@epsilonarcaneresearch1945 but the fungus spread through contaminated flour so gluten-free people would naturally be at an advantage.

[@jpespinosa4539]

If it came from flour, I don't think it would spread much in most of Asia since people prefer to eat rice.

[@kevinton7023]

But you forgot that Asians also like cookies, dumplings, deep fried chicken, etc. And some store-bought foods like sausages, meatballs, etc. Do contain flours, so there's that. If you ever bought a store bought food, you'll notice flours as part of the ingredients as well.

[@509734]

Might not even be just flour, could’ve spread in all classes of grain including rice and maize

[@Uncle-Ruckus.]

most of todays foods contain some flour in it

[@michealjones3297]

Here's a picture of Detroit, and here's a picture of Detroit after the infection

[@starleighpersonal]

Quality of life definitely improved. At least zombies can’t shoot at you.

[@marksanchez8814]

I bet alaska is doing pretty well it would be interesting if anchorage was the last major U.S city

[@141Wingman]

I just want a prequel that follows joel and his brother or even Joel and tess

[@papapay9053]

I would love to see them show what happens in the days months and first years after the outbreak. Show just how society collapses. And also show what Joel and Tommy saw before they got back to sarah

[@emiltakagi1934]

Interesting that "England declares marshal law" and not Britain. Might just be an oversight, but could also indicate a large scale breakdown of the UK.

[@NukaColaKris]

What I find hilarious is Britain would return to almost Medieval like combat. There are guns in Britain .22s, .32s, .38s, 9mms, and double barrel buckshots and hunting rifles mainly, but their not that common. So you'd find most British people wearing hardened leather armour, maybe newspaper wrapped arms and wearing kickboxing shin and knee armour, hockey masks, steel toe boots, wellies or footballs shoes, Cricket bats with nails in and knives and machetes, axes and wooden stakes, crossbows and bows, they'd smelt frying pans into helmets.

[@jujubih9343]

Honestly, TLOU is making me so reluctant of eating mushrooms & anything carb related 😭

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

Don’t worry , cordyceps is not even a mushroom and mushrooms don’t tend to be a parasite for sentient organisms ,usually they are parasites of plants .

[@KeyIssues]

I don’t eat mushrooms or fungus bc they are gross… but… even if I did… I wouldn’t because monsters!

[@jujubih9343]

@@KeyIssues vegetarians, vegans, & ppl w/ plant based diets are screwed for sure 😭😂

[@cloudlessdream]

Because it's so hard to answer this question with canon proof I think it could be a great deal to speculate on it with just what makes sense

[@ksrebelbuck7936]

It's really good besides last episode but other than that I love that they're sticking to the game as much as possible

[@connorgolden4]

Such a small thing but why would the Flavian colosseum at 3:48 be even more ruined? It’s already a ruin and not lived in and all lol.

[@gailseatonhumbert]

The bombing

[@tinkywinky1238]

The Colosseum endures maintenance/restoration to ensure it doesn't become more ruined.

[@matthewpolmanter8294]

The Canadian Whiskey does NOT indicate society in Canada. It's a product that holds long term, it could just have been from before the outbreak and some surviving people traded it. Does not indicate a functional society making fresh whiskey

[@Jarod-te2bi]

2:32 so the infection ether kills you, or turns you into a ravenous fungus monster.

[@mbaxter22]

I just started taking Cordyceps as a workout supplement, and enjoying it, when suddenly all these "Last of Us" vids start appearing in my feed. LOL

[@platypipope328]

It can be inferred that countries and areas that import very little grains like Australia and Eastern Europe probably not experience an outbreak

[@seanmartindill1935]

Well depends on time of year. UK does not import much food stuff from Indonesia (plus wheat is one crop we are self sufficient in) plus we are pretty cold from Nov to March and sometimes even longer plus further North you go the colder it gets, so Northern England and Scotland would be alot colder, the Isle of Man or Anglsey would as islands be viable to quarantine, plus Orkney, Shetland and Western Islands Even down South you could quickly Quarantine Isle of Wight, Channel Islands or Sicily Islands and if quick cut of Cornwall/parts of Devon using river Tare...as getting down to SW England even by car takes blxxdy ages

[@blackwolfvanguard4989]

In the last of us part 1 in the sewers (after Pittsburgh) there's more information regarding the rest of the world, such as the U.K. Freezing immigration. You'd be able to find that information (and similar) after you get the shorty.

[@FatsCaton]

"So what do we do?" "Bomb"...

[@jamesmmcgill]

“Start bombing. Bomb this entire city... and everyone in it. *starts crying* Excuse me, can someone please drive me home? I would like to be with my family, even my husband and children...”

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

I believe the show stated the mNy numbers of the infected starved or died out by then I believe Laos many places would hve less infected because of dry climates like the Middle East or colder climates like that in Canada 🇨🇦, Ireland 🇮🇪 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Finland 🇫🇮 Norway 🇳🇴 Sweden 🇸🇪 Russia 🇷🇺.

[@AtlasNovack]

I don't get why they didn't keep the spores thing from the games. Having a zombie infection spread by making out isn't exactly something I can suspend my disbelief for. Bites and airborne spores? Definitely. Also, why tf is Ellie so much smarter than Joel in the show? Thats some Part II shit

[@509734]

The screenwriters reasoned that if they went with the spore scenario everyone would’ve been wearing masks 24/7

[@AtlasNovack]

@@509734 they explained it in the games that the spores only had the ability to spread in closed-in buildings that the infected were in. Like, it's been figured out, but they decided to go with "oh it only spreads if a runner makes out with you"

[@luciennedebondt5310]

The making out part was symbolic

[@AtlasNovack]

@@luciennedebondt5310 tHE mAkiNg oUt pArT wAs sYmbOLi- I know! It bludgeons you over the head with it! But it also doesn't make it believable for a zombie apocalypse. It would be like you can only turn people into zombies if you beat them at rock paper scissors.

[@JonatasAdoM]

The tropics can't catch a break. It's already hot enough. At least make it exactly the safe zones from fungi because they prefer colder temperatures. Make the northern hemisphere deal with it like in Day Before Tomorrow.

[@fishlegs1315]

I think that North Korea would survive for the same reason they do in WWZ

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

In the end of the day North Korea is still country and they do things like any other country does like import and export , which also includes food , sometimes they import food , so a single contaminated food is enough for the country to be in chaos .

[@orion2089]

@@antoniocarlosoliveira9146 but since they are dictator they have more radical way to prevent that, remember wwz, when they make all people toothless

[@wrestlar3246]

I’m pretty sure they import most of their food so they are absolutely fucked. NK can barley sustain itself in the easiest, richest period in human history they wouldn’t last a month in a world where governments fall. Maybe they’d use nukes and bring others down with them though

[@conor987]

North Korea is gone in wwz, they die in the tunnels

[@mappingshaman5280]

North Korea would survive because North koreans don't eat flour as they don't eat anything.

[@FLBLUE777]

archipelagic countries: our time to shine

[@adamg9523]

Sounds weird but I’d love for them to expand the universe. Why not do a show based in Europe? Potential new types of infected too

[@lazyquahog9385]

I could see a spin-off series focusing on different parts of the world during outbreak day (Europe, Africa, Middle East, etc.)

[@adamg9523]

@@lazyquahog9385 they definitely should do it, it opens the door to new variants of infected

[@encisojhamir_1224]

What if the infected were vulnerable to intense heat? Will Do they ever survive the intense heat in the Sahara desert?

[@glennhubbard5008]

I laughed out loud at the loser wearing the Gore/Lieberman T-shirt. 😆

[@TheSdog9]

I hope it ends up being the ergot fungi that ends up evolving instead of the cordisceps. It would just be a giant global hippy fest. Now *THAT* would a halarious multiverse spin-off.

[@foreverjune8]

I'm kind of taken aback at 6 episode regarding the absence of the infected. They should be eveeerywhere, it's a god damn zombie apocalypse, yet only the episode 2 was faithful to this setting. Main characters seemingly are not bothered at all and travel the world like it's a vacation while observing the ruins of civilizations with almost no trace of the thing that caused it.

[@alansolanozamora8202]

You've got to take into account that irl Joel is an old man video game strength is very different from irl strength so realistically he would be weaker and couldn't tack on as many infected... second the infected would need a constant food source that being humans which would be a quickly dwindling food source without a food source realistically they would die and create tendrils but even then they would still need a food source

[@comradekettle]

Well the zombies are still human, they dont live forever. It's set 20 years after the outbreak so the vast majority of zombies probably starved or died of thirst a long time ago. Also you would probably never run into any zombies outside of major population centres, its not like theyre gonna migrate to the countryside and the ones already in the country are probably sparsely distributed

[@reismoulton2553]

Good to know i’m same from fungus here in Vancouver 👍

[@pancakesnwaffles8767]

Thank goodness

[@Fotosynthesis858]

Bella Ramsey looks like a young James May from BBC’s “Top Gear.” Look him up. You can’t unsee it 😬

[@m13848]

I thought she was Charlie from hereditary.

[@Fotosynthesis858]

One thing I noticed was that Ellie was eating a chicken sandwich WITH BREAD. While Tess & Joel ate dry jerky which means they’re safe from getting infected. So I wonder if everyone who eats the same bread Ellie’s eating, is going to get infected too…

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

While yes , it seems flour was the main substrate for the fungus to spread , not all flour is contaminated , it’s said that it was Indonesian flour that was infected and was exported to the rest of the world , but that’s doesn’t mean that the flour from the USA would be contaminated .

[@509734]

Presumably 20 years after outbreak somebody would’ve reasoned out the flour theory during that time and all flour in 2023 are carefully processed from then on

[@rybaneightsix5085]

There's a fungus among us and it's name is chungus

[@thebaron2277]

LETS FUCKING GO. VANCOUVER IS SAFE. I LIVE

[@KeyIssues]

Oh i forgot to mention the collectible I found that said Droid was eating by mushroom people. I’m sorry for this oversight ;)

[@nicky_kitty_777]

I am not that far away, I can always get in if need be.

[@Sozzley]

What about north korea lol or some island? by the time the wheat hits the islands of Solomon and Hawaii they'll know that something is up and not consume it, or it would be just reserve wheat.

[@loogsflamez8412]

Who wants too make a fan lore prelloud game where the setting is south america

[@AmazeAngeloGames]

I just hope my country still has life on it in the last of us which is Philippines

[@Dfathurr]

As much as i want to give hope. I'd said that won't happen. Indonesia and Phillipines are similat in terms of climate and geopolitical importance. And take it from me, whom live just next door. On country of outbreak origin

[@elroher9277]

Rome colosseum before cordicesps Rome colosseum after *they're the same pictures *

[@vinitvsankhe]

S Jaishankar, India's foreign minister had told a western journalist once and "The West has to come out of the mindset that WEST'S problem are world's problems but the world's problems are not the West's problem. " That may mean that in Last of Us as the East is woefully unaddressed may be the East is BAU (business as usual) If something fails in America Britain or Europe doesn't mean it would necessarily fail in the East and thus all of the World.

[@TrashCanOdor]

The show is pretty damn good ngl.

[@geodude012]

This is what pisses me off about a lot of apocalyptic films and dramas. I couldn't care less about individual characters. I want to see the big picture. I have no use for character-driven drama I want to see event-driven drama.

[@LiamMaher4955]

Why is the term Canadian life so funny

[@bilgehanergan4]

Is there any information about infected other mammals?

[@Arabian-Muslim]

What happened to Middle East

[@jamestomlin5525]

Still gonna grow mushrooms lol, some can help repair nerve damage

[@papaversomniferum2365]

Alaska, Siberia, Norway, Greenland should be safe.

[@LibertyPrime6969]

Canada survived hell yeah ❤🇨🇦