There are some very interesting parallels going on here. Fifteen years ago, a programming error in the newly released Zul Gurub 20 man raid instance in World of Warcraft allowed a disease to get out of the high level raid and into the general population, where it proceeded to tear ass through the entire game population of about 2 million players at the time.
A week or two of work by Blizzard Entertainment involving new software patches and server resets eventually fixed it, but compare what happened in this video (link in the video description, gotta route you through MY video so I get views and subscribers
) to the real world corona virus we have going on right now. Epidemiologists studied The Corrupted Blood Incident to learn from what it did and how it did it. There's also a great Wikipedia article on The Corrupted Blood Incident.
A week or two of work by Blizzard Entertainment involving new software patches and server resets eventually fixed it, but compare what happened in this video (link in the video description, gotta route you through MY video so I get views and subscribers
) to the real world corona virus we have going on right now. Epidemiologists studied The Corrupted Blood Incident to learn from what it did and how it did it. There's also a great Wikipedia article on The Corrupted Blood Incident.