Now, as we enter , we are in the third year during which this virus has shaped and shifted the very foundations of our society. As I am writing this, the UK has passed 81, deaths from a global total of 2 million deaths and 94 million cases, with global cases rising exponentially.
This begs the question: how deadly is Covid, and what would it take for it to eliminate humanity? For this, I have turned to Plague Inc. Since Alexander Flemming revolutionised the medical world with the invention of penicillin, bacteria have largely found themselves on the back foot when it comes to infecting widespread portions of the human race.
Whilst still deadly and widespread, these bacteria are increasingly able to be countered with steroids and antibiotics, reducing the risk of a widespread uncontrolled pandemic such as we see today.
Thus, I found the easiest way to eliminate the human race in the event of a pandemic is with a virus. As with the real world, in these pandemic simulations, the easiest way to kill humanity is with unpredictability - and a virus does just that.
Not only is a virus the key to an unpredictable disease which may one day wipe out humanity, but the origins of said virus are key. The key, as it turns out, is the spreading of the virus - something that Covid has proved can be done very easily in our modern globalised society.
The journey from China to Italy spreading the plague across Europe took almost 40 years back in the middle ages: in , it took a mere 40 days for widespread outbreaks to begin in Italy spreading across much of Europe. My research into the historical spread of pandemics and my attempts to create my destroyer of humanity illustrates a significant disparity between what happens in the real world and the measures one may find in a simulator. Using Plague Inc.
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The fourth category is "Special," which has a high amount of Speed and Strength. There are 5 characters in this category, including the three hosts.
The game is played in two different versions. Challenge mode is where the player can challenge specific obstacles and attempt to beat them in a certain amount of time. The other is Play The Show, which means to play the game as they would in the show. They go through the Qualifier round first, and advance to the Sweeper round second. The third round, Free For All, has 3 different versions. Challenging level has players on the Unclaimed Baggage, and the Extreme level has them on the Double Crosser.
Finally, they go through the Wipeout Zone. The Wii game is different from the show and its Nintendo DS counterpart in that there are only 4 contestants, and none are eliminated during the first three rounds. The game has commentary by Henson, Anderson and Wagner, all three of whom are featured as unlockable playable characters.
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