Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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everyone always overexaggerates how useful the incident was to epidemiologists. It was certainly an interesting novelty, and some cool studies were produced, but the issue was that there weren’t actually consequences for bad actors. It’s a lot harder for assholes to willingly catch a disease with the goal of spreading it when that disease can actually kill them.
I’m more miffed that they never figured out a way to rerun the event for WoW Classic, if even for only 24 hours.
honestly if anything, covid showed us how bad actor assholes can easily be substituted with stupid people & negligence/spite
“covid? it doesnt exist! lets have a party with 200 people!! :D”
There’s at least one video I saw of a maskless person claiming they didn’t need the mask to protect themselves because they already have covid.
Reminder, masks were not suppose to protect YOU. They were to stop you from coughing/spitting on other people. You needed eyewear/face shield to properly protect yourself.
So like Covid
Yea, if anything it underestimated how many people would be willing dedicate themselves to becoming full time plague spreaders.
No, not at all like COVID. Don’t confuse ignorance for malice. The issue with COVID was skeptics who only consumed right-wing propoganda downplaying the severity of the virus. There were no skeptics in the Corrupted Blood incident, people were maliciously trying to spread the virus knowing that it would kill other people.
I was beyond disappointed when they messed it up, then issued an apology with no intention whatsoever to actually try to get it right.
t… TWENTIETH??? 😨
Ohhh nooo. I was having an okay day, and now the inexorable passage of time is fucking it up again!
Last night I realized we’re closer to 2030 than 2020 now
cough cough to the auction house and then to the flight path!
Did someone say Corrupted Blood?
Did someone say Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
Anal [Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
Loved that event. Was a lot of fun.
Too bad we can’t have that sort of fun in WoW anymore…
Dammitalltohellinahandbasket.
I feel old now. (I was there, Gandalf. I was there.)
that shit came in handy during the covid pandemic /s
Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee!
How about Plague inc. ?
Plague Inc. doesn’t include real human behaviour
twykomantis@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
For the uninitiated/lazy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
pemptago@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.
Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s wild that they couldn’t change the spread property of the debuff to be deactivated if you weren’t in the boss chamber. That should not be a hard fix…
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Huh, TIL. Neat.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?
thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man i really miss Cracked. It used to be so good.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
viruscomix.com/page599.html
you may or may not recognize the artist
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And who else didn’t need an article because they were there when it happened?
JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 months ago
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was highly entertaining, thank you