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.
twykomantis@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
For the uninitiated/lazy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
pemptago@lemmy.ml 11 hours 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 5 hours 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 15 hours ago
Huh, TIL. Neat.
Dasus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?
JakenVeina@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
Bosht@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That was highly entertaining, thank you