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Game Theory: How WoW Almost Prevented the Coronavirus Crisis! (World of Warcraft)
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Years ago now, World of Warcraft had an event that changed the landscape of the ENTIRE game for the players. Hundreds of thousands of skeletons littered the cities, all player characters who had perished to what was called the "corrupted blood plague". Now, some experts are saying that they could have used this event to better understand how viral pandemics spread in societies and how individuals react. What I want to know is, could this historic WoW moment have helped prevent the spread of our current pandemic? Let's find out!
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLGxVCgEYw
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1301971-The-lag-of-vanilla-WOW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Zul%27Gurub_(raid)
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Hakkar_the_Soulflayer
https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=14834/hakkar
https://www.sciencealert.com/more-evidence-suggests-pangolins-may-have-passed-coronavirus-from-bats-to-humans
https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html
https://www.liberationnews.org/rich-flee-nyc-workers-deal-covid-19/
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-flu-virtual/online-blood-plague-offers-lessons-for-pandemics-idUKTRE53Q4HI20090427
https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_163_January_2006/page/n137/mode/2up
https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2007/03000/Modeling_Infectious_Diseases_Dissemination_Through.15.aspx
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17301707/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4946772
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/grocery-store-throws-out-35k-worth-food-woman-coughed-twisted-n1169401
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-researchers-who-once-studied-wows-corrupted-blood-plague-are-now-fighting-the-coronavirus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/04/09/world-warcraft-experienced-pandemic-2005-that-experience-may-help-coronavirus-researchers/
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