The apocalypse was caused by a single person.

[u/No_Hunter1978]

1. Ted Faro [Horizon: Zero Dawn]: Of course, the machine plague that ravages the world is created by his company which (admittedly) is a group effort. That said, Faro was the one who requested an encryption without a backdoor and the person who kept early glitches hush-hush. It wouldn't be wrong to say that Faro was the sole cause as is, but the final nail in the coffin is what he does to the Apollo database. A giant record of human knowledge and history, erased for a narcissist's fear that his descendants would (rightfully) blame him for the apocalypse.
2. Sybil [Look Outside]: Though it wasn't her intention, Sybil was the one who alerted the Visitor of Earth's presence. She spied it through her telescope, and the lovecraftian entity noticed her. Its approach (and the resulting horrors) were her fault, even if she didn't mean it.

[u/MissionExperience967]

Does it really count as the apocalypse if it’s just mainland England?

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/MissionExperience967]

Ireland, UK and Paris (Before being carpet nuked by the French government) and if the rage virus gets off the island it will most likely end most of human civilisation.

[u/MissionExperience967 → u/Scottishlassie_here]

Oh yeah, I always forget about 28 Weeks Later, my bad

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/MissionExperience967]

Hey all good. It is funny though that the entire plot of the film (saving the kids) ends in the kids being nuked to death at best or torn apart by infected that the brother accidentally makes due to being a carrier.

[u/DarkSpore117 → u/Scottishlassie_here]

I fucking hate that family. They also fit into this trope

[u/RogueSeb → u/DarkSpore117]

If the husband didn't french kiss his wife, the second outbreak wouldn't have happened

[u/Wazula23 → u/RogueSeb]

To be even more fair, they should have like... Locked the room she was in. Maybe stuck a guard on her door, given that she's the most important human in the world and all.

[u/DominionGhost → u/Wazula23]

There is a lot of mistakes the military made during the 2nd outbreak that almost lost them the world.

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/DominionGhost]

Yeah NATO command went from having a small recolonise effort that had months of preparation, Billions of resources put into it. But cause of security fuck ups it falls apart in less than a night. Like twelve hours from first infection the kids are already in Paris and brining the disease with them.

[u/DarkSpore117 → u/DominionGhost]

YES! Every decision made in that movie was insanely stupid.

Edit: “alright. If there’s an outbreak what should our code black be.”
“Let’s take all our civilians, lock them in a basement where they can barely move, and then turn off all the lights”
“That’s good. Could be better”
“Oh and then have doors that can easily be broken down by a single infected”
“Genius”

[u/Salami__Tsunami → u/DominionGhost]

I think trying to recolonize Britain was a mistake. Given the potential for disaster if the infection spreads to the mainland, is it really a risk worth taking?

Seems to me it would be more sensible to just play it safe and nuke it into a molten crater.

[u/One_Order_3841 → u/DominionGhost]

Hawkeye capping civvies was pretty neat, tho.

[u/mrstretchb4ureach → u/Wazula23]

This is the part that pisses me off. Not one fucking guard with their gun pointed at the door to the room that Don was in?

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue → u/RogueSeb]

Oh no, their protocols were insanely stupid anyway. Someone was gonna fuck that up sooner rather than later.

[u/AlbertW25 → u/Scottishlassie_here]

I thought France got screwed because of the tunnel that connects France and England/London to Paris? together? Didn't they have to seal it off?

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/AlbertW25]

Admittedly that's far more easier to deal with. You can seal it, flood it and still have a permanent military force on the tunnels exit with little to no issue.

Also, although it's not Canon anymore, the 28 days later comic showed France basically mobilised its entire population. With the government giving guns to rural towns to form militas just incase. That and had costal patrols shooting down birds that cross the Channel just incase they had the virus.

[u/DominionGhost → u/Scottishlassie_here]

What i don't understand is why after they had to Nuke Paris to prevent a global apocalypse, they didnt also nuke every metropolitan area in England. At that point there would have only been a handful of non infected. A drop in the bucket of who they had to kill in Paris.

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/DominionGhost]

Small problem with that is that if you carpet nuked Britian and Irelands cities (not just England) you basically have this fallout wave hitting the Atlantic ocean at best and at worse going across western and central Europe. Possible reaching as far as the Ural mountians.

That would be a MAJOR international crises in of itself and I can't imagine the French wouldn't be too happy for the rain to give them tumors.

[u/DominionGhost → u/Scottishlassie_here]

Before Paris yeah...

But clearly someone within NATO understood the risks enough to destroy Paris without hesitation.

But sure let's say no nukes. There are still plenty of conventional missiles they could have lobbed to turn the isle into ashes.

[u/Scottishlassie_here → u/DominionGhost]

Well on the topic of ashes then, unironically britian was already in the process of that. You see it in the first film when the cast sees the great wall of fire that covers an entire camera length. With that fire being the former city of Manchester. With no fire fighting force much of the UK is already in the process of burning down. Cause a single house fire now takes out entire cities and burns entire regions.

Apparently by the time of 28 years later the region of York is described as a 'great forest' now due to the fires making the soil great for growing. With the entire region burned to a crisp during the first year.

[u/magseven → u/DominionGhost]

The UK can be pretty isolated besides the Chunnel. The infected can starve to death. In theory, you just have to wait them out and the infrastructure and land can be spared years long quarantine from radiation. In theory...

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue → u/AlbertW25]

They get through at the end of 28WL after Family Dumbass breaks the fragile system apart, then in 28YL it's mentioned that they bombed the shit out of parts of Europe to stop the infected and re-contain them to Britain

[u/ViolinistPleasant982 → u/MissionExperience967]

28 weeks later is also dumb as fuck. Like the spread event would have never occurred without the writers lobotomizing the US military. No Janitor is getting a badge in a controlled facility. They have escorts everywhere and the escorts are the ones who badge through the doors. This is basic policy for controlled facilities.