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Unless there's a longer dormant period where this is contagious, but shows no symptoms, this disease kills too quickly to become a world pandemic.
It also depends on its mortality rate. The, article says 50 died but over 900 infected.
Still incredibly high, but initially it seemed like it was much higher. If enough asymptomatic, or non deadly people catch it and pass it on, it's still pandemicable, just less effective.
That's true with a higher mortality rate.
It has killed around 10 percent of victims, so it can be spread by the rest.
Anyone that's played plague Inc knows how this goes. It's not a winning strategy.
Yeah but one of these days a virus is going to get smart and start up in New Zealand and Madagascar. Chuck in a long asymptomatic (edit: contagious period) and game over.
Come to think of it, why haven't viruses done this yet? What are they, stupid?
A ton already are!
Most viruses, we don't even notice them... the really virulent ones cause few, if any symptoms.
We just generally don't worry about them, is all.
What I never got about this game is that when the virus mutates, ALL copies of that virus mutate in the exact same way. Couldn't they make a realistic version?
A realistic version would be pretty boring. That's basically the same as just working for the CDC.
Under this administration, working for the CDC is probably not as boring as it usually is.
Asymptomatic until ready then the whole tree in one minute
we could all just move to greenland and close the ports
Oh shit bro delete this. We don't need to be giving Trump any ideas.
It's a bit of a toss up for me between staying in virus plagued USA or locating to Trump's new monarchy in Greenland.
Hello! I'm from New Zealand. Why is the scenario of a virus starting here a bad thing?
It's a Plague Inc. joke. In this game, you're the virus/bacteria, or whatever other disease. You guide the virus's evolution with the aim to destroy humanity.
The virus slowly spreads across the earth through planes, boats, etc.
There are a few really isolated spots, including New Zealand, that are hard to get to and they often seal their borders very quickly. When that happens you lose.
So the smart first step is to start the virus in one of the hard to reach places.
Originally Pandemic 2... i miss flash games lol
I propose the Republican's private islands wherever they are.
I learned how to be in a relationship from visual novels.
Not with that attitude
That's looking on the bright side of things I guess