All I'm saying is I am 50% less likely to lose a leg to a zombie so that's a good start... #Amputee #Prosthetic #Persevere 📷 / footlessjo 🌍 www.footlessjo.com 💜 / jobeckwith
Hate the question, love the answer - I call it “educating AROUND someone”, using trolls as teachable moments for other spectators is a GREAT way to invalidate them while spreading healthy information and styles!
Gotta respect you looking past the wording of the question because yikes :/ but your answer is chef’s kiss beautiful. The creativity, the versatility. I’d want you in my zombie apocalypse team for sure 😆
I agree but I'm pretty sure the commenter just doesn't know English very well, and as such doesn't know that would be considered offensive. And I'm speaking from experience here, because back when my English was at the bare minimum similar things would happen to me
@@IRM321 I can sorta understand that, but calling her an ‘it’ on top of ‘cripple’?.. and their spelling everything else basically right, so it’s weird they just happen to not call her a proper pronoun, and a slur in the same sentence. It may be a mistake, but I mean, it doesn’t really feel like it…
@@zeromii3234 I agree with what you are saying, but I wouldn't say English is one of the hardest languages, for me it's one of the easiest I know, and according to global standards it is too. It is one of the languages that takes the least amount of time to learn. Having said all this, here where I live and basically everywhere they don't speak English natively, there is a common stereotype about how Americans and British people think their language is the hardest, so I see why you would say that. But anyways, this rant has been going on for way too long so I guess I'm gonna finish here.
Just the fact they said "it" was bad enough. A lot of people with disabilities are constantly adapting to their environment and learning how to be really creative to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. Ofc it's gonna be easier to adapt and react better to new challenges, they have to face them constantly.
I forgot the name of the movie, but the main character in the movie replaced her missing leg with an M16 with an M203 40mm grenade launcher attached to it.
bonus points for cool leg weapon modifications! all jokes side the person who commented that was very rude you dont deserve that. it takes a lot to look past how they worded that.
Fun fact during the French Revolution our ambassador to France used his peg leg to fight off mobs two separate times. So if geuvernier Morris can fight off normal people with just one leg I think you’ll be fine Edit: i dont know why i need to specify but he was the american embassador
Y’a don’t wanna mess with us wheelchair users, we’re ready to charge with our battering rams and if we do somehow loose our chairs, we could crawl for hours on end at the speed of who knows what. It’s a special skill, really.
Just cut a shopping cart in half vertically, remove the wheels, and weld hinges, and you have a cage to drop down over you to better your ramming chances.
@@leewooboi why is that genuinely ideal tho Zombies wouldn't be able to bite you you could just chill in ur lil wheelchair cage until you find a place to live
Besides the fact that, like I think you mentioned before, being disabled has literally trained you to be able to better roll with the punches, adapt, and problem solve.
1. I completely agree, disabled people are so used to adapting that we’d be able to figure surviving out because we are so well practiced 2. I don’t know how you skated past the wording of that question because I am still in shock at just how bad that is…..
Yeah, that wording also had me like "what the fuck?" so kudos to Jo for taking it in stride as she did. Not only, but she made a funny video out of it. Just brilliant!
I'm guessing that comment came from a member of the "prepper" community, who usually seize any available chance to claim that THEY are the only ones prepared to survive disasters.
Also, you can totally mess with people by telling them your original limb was bitten so you just cut it off. Those people are always the coolest ones in Zombie apocalypse stories.
That dude worded that question like a complete asshat. I'd want you I'm my party during the zombie apocalypse! Hell with my crazy designs, we could get you a leg like the girl in kingsman 😂 make sure if you lost one you have 10 more options, all with deadly attachments!
Rudeness of the question aside, I firmly believe you're right. Disabled people already have practice adapting to...less than ideal circumstances. It only makes sense that they'd have a leg up (excuse the expression 😂) in an apocalypse situation.
To be honest I've always imagined zombies would be more like the ones in 28 Days Later, a film so well thought through they even have the zombies die off when their food source is no longer available. In the case of 28DL, I can't imagine someone who's missing a leg lasting too long once they lose their prosthetic cause those bad bois can fuckin run. That said, once you've made it long enough for the zombies to die off you should be good - even if you lose the professionally made prosthetic you can probably fashion one out of whatever materials are nearby. Lose an eye while you're at it and go full pirate. Also I hope the person who left that comment does some questioning and realises that it's not okay to word such a question in that way.
Problem there is that 28DL didn't address certain factors, like the fact that the human body overworking itself would literally tear itself to pieces, and they don't 'rest' in a way that would allow them to recover. So, yeah, the initial few days or maybe weeks would be horrible. Any longer than that and they would pretty much go right back to the slow zombie variety.
I would imagine that these zombies would have to be slow. Even ignoring the rigor mortis that would befall them and limit their movement, dead flesh rots. Their muscles are going to decompose.
Kinda funny I found your videos while doing research for an amputee character I wanna write in an post apocalyptic story and now you are giving me ideas 😂
Plus you're fitter than the average person, by a lot. Most of us wouldn't last for long having to walk or run for a long time, and I suspect you definitely would. Unless you come across a swarm and they surround you, I'd say you have pretty good chances.
She forgot to say one thing (which, afaik, is the most important feature) She Is a below-the-knee amputee. She retains the majority of the kicking power and is less bound by impact pain. Give homegirl a nailed boot and she'll be wrecking butts all day long with less side effects than two-legged ppl. Edit: for if somebody starts saying "but what if a swarm" Hear me out: Machete. Peg. Leg.
In high school i had a character with a prosthetic arm and the first thing he did was take it off to wack someone with it. Thats how i chose to introduce him.
My family has already explained the sacrifice I'll need to make in a zombie apocalypse... I told them the same thing... "Zombies are slow and with my prosthetic, I could have a fighting chance!" and then my son said... "Not if we get the World War Z zombies." 😖
Your character, your personality, your beauty, your smile, your sense of humor, your outlook, your humbleness pours through the screen! How I am certain it’s a blessing to know you IRL girl!!!! I aspire to have at least half of your happiness!!! 💕🌻 I came across one of your videos, as (the topics don’t pertain to my life) and I have been a subscriber since solely for how sweet, intellectual, and kind you come across... I can’t wait until you hit a million subbies because you most definitely deserve it!!!!💕 Thank you for making youtube a little ray of sunshine girl☀️!!!
@@macandfries6765 bruh. How do you know? The word cripple is offensive and using it pronouns like she's an animal (she didn't say they could use those pronouns). Please don't try and back up what that guy said Edit: if you are trying to
@@mistydraqonquit1891 i mean she is technically an animal, we all are. No living creature should be adressed as an object, reguardless of species, and certainly not someone who can understand and be offended by what is said.
I’ve you’ve seen walking dead you know people could survive as amputees. Yes it may be pretty difficult if you didn’t have anything to hold your weight and give you structure and stability, or if your prosthetic leg got taken away/lost somehow, but you could definitely survive.
I can't rip my prosthetic off because I have straps. Looks like I'm not surviving an apocalypse. Though I know how to use guns exceptionally well. Thanks for this video Jo!!!
No, you’d live, cause while other people have to worry about zombie bites, foot pain, broken bones, etc, you don’t! You basically have an immortal leg! Also, you could kick zombies exceptionally well, using not only your foot, but also your METAL shin. You’re basically half indestructible.
@@atree9284 Well, my meat leg is still breakable and if it was broken I’d already be dead meat. Though the kicking is quite accurate because I’ve taken karate lessons. And I’m 1/4 indestructible, considering my leg cuts off at the knee joint. Thanks for your argument tho
@@abnormalunicorn7990 although your leg can break, it’s only one. You have 1/2 the chance everyone with two legs has of getting a broken leg. And besides, no matter how many meat legs you have, if one breaks, you’re for sure gonna die in a zombie apocalypse.
I don't know if you've read World War Z but there's actually a disabled character (wheelchair bound) that we meet. He's awesome, and I love him. Also screw the OP. Bash them with your leg.
Every second of this is exactly why I adore your channel!! Not an amputee but I have challenges and you remind me how to be the best version of myself, and to respond instead of react ❤❤❤ Hope you are doing ok!
This was a conversation had between me and my friend with a prosthetic arm, we both fully agreed he could survive fine on his own and even better with friends.
I adore your response and recoil in disgust at the commenter. I've got an autoimmune disease, so I'll have to raid all nearby pharmacies so I don't become bedridden within the first week. Upside, I've also got bipolar disorder, so hopefully I'm in a manic episode when the apocalypse pops off 😛 pop some depakote when the depressive episode hits so I don't self-peace-out. That'll last a couple weeks, then it's back to mania baybeeee. Plus I'm Creole and live in Texas, so I was born a good shot 😉
Me way my leg is that I can actually fix attachments to it that I can haul off Kik without taking my leg off like a government mule and take their heads right off mine's titanium it's lightweight but durable is all get out and since I've learn over the years basic some martial arts and I had to relearn them works even better for me not to mention that I take a cane with me just as a walking rough terrain and it's titanium too and it will Molly wop anybody Us fake leg and fake arm people need to stick together we'll survive the zombie apocalypse together goamps.
My immediate thought was get a hollow cane and attach a small thin sword to the handle that you can pull out of it. Use the hollowed out part to beat the zombies and the sword part to stab them.
Your channel is the only one where I discover in the comments that there was cat in the video and rewatch it to find out that I missed the cat! 😅 Normally I spot them right away, but here I'm so focused on you and your content that I would probably notice the cats, if you were in room full of them! 😅🙈 About the commenter, well, that they don't have to worry about zombies (afaik zombies are after human's brains, right? I'm not much into popculture 😅) doesn't mean they should walk around and insult people. 😑 I love your sass, attitude and response to his bs. 😻👏
No 6: you can make a bet with someone for food/other supplies for winning a climbing race, but make sure to word the race as "the first one to get a foot on the roof" then just throw your foot up
This is amazing and yes. You will probably be able to blend in with the zombies. I agree with the fact that amputees can survive the zombie apocalypse without one of their limbs. You are so strong thank you for helping us make other amputees feel better about themselves.
Honestly almost no one would survive RE zombies. They carry guns, run hella fast, and animals get infected too. Entire cities are bombed without notice. In that world everyone who isn’t a “main character” is dead.
@@RandomGal111 true, I guess it depends on if you consider J’avos to be part of the problem in this hypothetical. If they aren’t involved and it’s just the normal zombies with no crazy mutations, then it may be possible haha. It’s the big ass mutations and cognitive ability that would be detrimental to the chance of human survival. 🤣 I’d hate to be killed by a huge bug-human-tentacle monstrosity…
I actually thought of the last one first when I saw the title! I love your humour, but I am very appalled by that comment. I just can't fathom someone attacking your disability and calling you an it.
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, I'm finding the nearest amputee and making myself their problem. Call me ableist, but that's my plan. If an amputee gets bitten they can just be like... "oh I've got another one of those" and pop a different prosthetic arm on. Nobody knows how to improvise, adapt, and overcome like those who have to do it every waking moment (and sometimes even their sleeping moments) of their life. This world is literally not built for amputees, that's why it's called a disability. It's a disadvantage. But you best believe I'm putting my faith in my amputee friend.
My mom's an amputee too. I can't wait to share this video with her. I know she will agree with you. I'm going to share the comments too. Your fans are pretty Awesome 😍
I’m curious, for amputees in college or high school, do some have IEPs and if so, what types of accommodations are involved in an IEP? I’m deaf so I had an IEP for deafness, that’s why I’m curious what an IEP for an amputee might look like. Would those accommodations be the same in college or might they change since college is such a different environment to high school?
I don't know of any amputees at my school but kids with crutches or any sort of impaired mobility are able to use the elevators at school and are let out of class early and are not marked late so that they have extra time to get to class.
I love you so much for all this vinegar right here. You are amazing and while I hope we don't get zombies, I absolutely know you'll bash some heads in! Shoot. We sprain an ankle, break a leg or ampuate we die. You have been in training for this! 2-leggers got nothing on you.
You're a freaking hilarious. I'm sure you'd be so fun to hang out with. You have the most positive attitude given the circumstance. Keep being awesome!
If I were this young ladies age, I’d be doing whatever I could to be her guy. She’s absolutely gorgeous and her persona is extremely infectious. What a great spirit, and a beautiful face full of confidence. What a keeper. 👏👏👏👏👏
Zombie chokes trying to munch the prosthetic. This video was so manic and hilarious, including the aside about the dog hair. I also noted how Jo casually uses her meat foot to hold her prosthetic upright.
Before I begin, the person asking the question is probably the one who hides a bite and therefore is the worst person on the team. They'll probably be ditched early on and make cameos in the background as an infected. Moving on to my analysis In general there are a lot of factors that could change these answers. The only disadvantage I could really see you having is if you're without the prosthetic and in a horde of zombies, but even non-amputees couldn't survive that. There could also be the issue the prosthetic leg itself being damaged in a way that effects mobility. You absolutely have a point with the fact that you have less flesh for the zombie to feast on, but it depends on the type of zombie on whether you can count on them moving on. Most hollywood zombies have one of 2 hunting methods. Sound and smell. If you have the sound type, you're probably good and could just throw something in the opposite direction. Smell based zombies could be an issue and they might get distracted by the prosthetic, but after they realize that what they're biting down on isn't what they smelled they'd eventually move their way to the rest of your body. The leg being used as a weapon also opens up room for the potential of modifying the leg for better weapon potential. Theoretically you could wrap barbed wire around it, strategic spikes, retractable features or if you lose the leg you could do an Ash vs The Evil Dead deal. Probably not a chain saw, I don't even that would work on an arm, but something in that realm. Maybe a baseball bat of some kind
Jo, you come off as such a badass that I feel like you could survive a zombie apocalypse either way. I would just keel over and expect my fate if the dead started walking the earth
Gm jo hope you have a blessed day beautiful woman Mike enjoy life as your a God sent angel you help multiple people everyday and for the encourage us to go on every day ty jo
