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Sawbones: The World of Warcraft Plague and COVID

By Sawbones
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A very long time ago, in 2019, we talked about the Corrupted Blood plague, a pandemic within the World of Warcraft. How it affected the digital world was used as a model for how people might behave during an actual real-life pandemic. Well . . . we’ve got that real-life pandemic now. So how did it actually play out (and is still playing out) versus how it went in-game?

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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