everyone always overexaggerates how useful the incident was to epidemiologists. It was certainly an interesting novelty, and some cool studies were produced, but the issue was that there weren’t actually consequences for bad actors. It’s a lot harder for assholes to willingly catch a disease with the goal of spreading it when that disease can actually kill them.

I’m more miffed that they never figured out a way to rerun the event for WoW Classic, if even for only 24 hours.

honestly if anything, covid showed us how bad actor assholes can easily be substituted with stupid people & negligence/spite

“covid? it doesnt exist! lets have a party with 200 people!! :D”

There’s at least one video I saw of a maskless person claiming they didn’t need the mask to protect themselves because they already have covid.

Reminder, masks were not suppose to protect YOU. They were to stop you from coughing/spitting on other people. You needed eyewear/face shield to properly protect yourself.

A well fitted N95 mask protects both you and others

One vector for infection is the eyes. Even people wearing eye glasses had a measurably lower infection rates then people who didn’t.