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Corrupted Blood Incident Is Helping Researchers With The Fight on Coronavirus

posted 2020/03/14 at 9:49 AM by Neryssa

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The Corrupted Blood IncidentZul'GurubHakkarCorrupted BloodIronforgeOrgrimmarCorrupted Blood As a Way to Help With Future Epidemics

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Corrupted Blood and the Fight on Coronavirus"To pull it back to a Corrupted Blood analogy, and something I've been thinking about—one of the critiques we got from a lot of people, both gamers and scientists, was over this idea of griefing," Dr. Lofgren says. "How griefing isn't really analogous to anything that takes place in the real world. People aren't intentionally getting people sick. And they might not be intentionally getting people sick, but wilfully ignoring your potential to get people sick is pretty close to that. You start to see people like 'oh this isn't a big deal, I'm not going to change my behavior. I'm going to the concert and then going to see my elderly grandma anyway.' Maybe don't do that. That's a big takeaway. Epidemics are a social problem... Minimizing the seriousness of something is sort of real-world griefing."wash. your. hands.Zul'Gurub is scheduled to be released in Classic WoW in April!Wowhead Discord WebhookDiscord ServerTwitterFacebook

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Comment by Lis25Who would thought that we will come to this point XDComment by BiggehpriceHopefully I don't spread the virus as much as I (purposefully) spread that plague way back then.Comment by kragraghI always thought this was really dumb...we don’t live our real lives like we play wow. I never understood how one translated to the other. I don’t log on to my alt to go to the city to buy and sell things.Comment by mybelovedchaosThis is really cool and unexpected lol I love this kind of thing.Comment by CorydonMy first thought was: "Guys, really? Utilizing a pandemic to get a WoW headline?"
But my second thought was: "Well, whatever may help to educate people I guess!"Comment by FrostDracoI always thought this was really dumb...we don’t live our real lives like we play wow. I never understood how one translated to the other. I don’t log on to my alt to go to the city to buy and sell things.Comment by NulgarI always thought this was really dumb...we don’t live our real lives like we play wow. I never understood how one translated to the other. I don’t log on to my alt to go to the city to buy and sell things.Agent K said:
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.Friedrich Nietzsche said:
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.Comment by xenolithix"Griefing" in the real-world sense is definitely a thing; it just translates to stubbornness or neglect.

Heard about a guy in my town who needed to be escorted from a pharmacy by the police, because he went to get medicine after getting diagnosed, and when he learned that they were out of what he was after, he was quite irate.

He actively refused to put on a mask when requested, and was apparently walking around deliberately coughing on doorknobs, handrails, and the counters until he was physically restrained.

Though I suppose that's less a case of "stubbornness" and more just outright a case of the crazies.Comment by tickI think the Corrupted Blood incident could be replicated on PTR at least.Comment by deathlavitzNo, an accidental bug isn't helping anyone except those in school learning how a flu can spread. I'm pretty sure if you talk to a doctor who's been working for 20+ years what would happen if you had a contagious virus and travelled the world without restraint what could happen he'd eventually come to the same logic loop without even know world of warcraft exists.

This is good at explaining the situation, but I wouldn't act like this event suddenly inspired medical experts to think differently.Comment by nelson8So...i will logout from life and i come back in next expansionComment by Gwiezsuddenly thinking about the people who are intentionally touching everything and then their faces, or going to a conference and shaking hands with everyone because they think they're being politically defiant.

No, an accidental bug isn't helping anyone except those in school learning how a flu can spread. I'm pretty sure if you talk to a doctor who's been working for 20+ years what would happen if you had a contagious virus and travelled the world without restraint what could happen he'd eventually come to the same logic loop without even know world of warcraft exists.

This is good at explaining the situation, but I wouldn't act like this event suddenly inspired medical experts to think differently.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(07)70212-8/fulltextComment by Dejo93RemovedComment by carriebotRemovedComment by Iceman3317What, I don't understand how it can help fight it....Comment by darkelemental1I always thought this was really dumb...we don’t live our real lives like we play wow. I never understood how one translated to the other. I don’t log on to my alt to go to the city to buy and sell things.Agent K said:
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.Friedrich Nietzsche said:
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

― Terry Pratchett, JingoComment by GwiezI always thought this was really dumb...we don’t live our real lives like we play wow. I never understood how one translated to the other. I don’t log on to my alt to go to the city to buy and sell things.Comment by BriandrisNo, an accidental bug isn't helping anyone except those in school learning how a flu can spread. I'm pretty sure if you talk to a doctor who's been working for 20+ years what would happen if you had a contagious virus and travelled the world without restraint what could happen he'd eventually come to the same logic loop without even know world of warcraft exists.

This is good at explaining the situation, but I wouldn't act like this event suddenly inspired medical experts to think differently.Comment by royalecheeseThe plague was a brutal and ugly time in the history of WoW.... and I’m glad I was involved.

For Science!Comment by TerrassenHow a disease/virus/WoW plague spreads is irrelevant for the current Corona epidemic. You can use the data to prevent and prepare for a future epidemic, not a current one like with COVID-19 which has already infected most countries in the world.

The difference is that Blizzard manually made the plague unable to be spread any further by fixing a design oversight with computer code over the course of a few days. The Corona virus is on the other hand 12-18 months away from a cure (according to a CEO of a major medicine company) and real lives are at stake.

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