The Remarkable Report Commissioned by the Scottish Covid Inquiry that Savages Lockdowns and Vaccines – The Daily Sceptic
A remarkable report commissioned by the Scottish Covid Inquiry goes off-narrative and savages lockdowns and vaccines, saying there is no evidence they helped.
I like how epidemiologists used to like to cite that Tainted Blood incident in World of Warcraft to model what humans would do in the face of a REAL pandemic, but none of that behaviour happened, and no one talks about it any more. Players vacated cities because of a fake plague in a game where there isn't really a penalty for dying ...
That's not entirely what happened, they tried to vacate cities but players/PVPers from opposing factions unified and enforced lockdowns on those cities, actively killing anyone trying to get out to prevent further spread of the Hakkar plague.
Familiar, no?
As this was back in Vanilla it meant no flying mounts so the best someone could do to get past this was try to rez a slight distance from their body and hope nobody saw them quick enough that they might then make a run for it. Considering this was Vanilla WoW PVP however that would have meant a lot of Rogues, Druids, and NElf characters in stealth making attempts such as the above even less safe than it might appear.
Not that this was the first time raid mechanics spilled over into the rest of the game, wasn't even the last time either. One of the first raid bosses in Molten Core, Baron Geddon, had an ability where he turned a player into a time bomb.
3200 fire damage was death to everything back in Vanilla.
The problem was that this ability could originally target pets. On its own that isn't a problem, however said pets could then be dismissed which would simply remove the ticking time bomb from the fight. On the face of things this would be a good way to mitigate the mechanic in favour of the raid group. However the pet retained the effect until it was eventually set off. Leading to this:
Vanilla was a massive mess of bugs like this where mechanics could and would be exploited to either cheese a fight or grief other players. Mostly because MMOs of this scale were still emerging and evolving so a lot of mistakes were made along the way. The Paladin Reckoning Bomb for example being another where someone ended up 1-shotting a World Boss that was meant to take an entire raid group.
Fun read, but what a waste of time playing those games.
Appreciate the story, I missed this from last month. There is a presentation of the report here. To anyone who is able to make it through the 10-odd fuckin hours of it, a summary would be cool.
But you can preview how they're already trying to dilute, bury and disown this on the website:
ie. we reserve the right to say this guy is a kook and completely ignore him. Also the BBC was getting in early with smear articles implying the author is a gravedancing anti-vaxxer.
If all else fails, the retarded scots can simply dismiss him because he's obviously English with a posho English accent.
spez: damn this Dr Croft looks and sounds young for 70 years old. Immediately much more trustworthy in health matters than eg. the walrus-sized public health nurse I butted heads with yesterday.
Shut it down!
A surprising but good thing Quite surprised they went there
No news of the Scottish Health chief taking her dog and family for a walk in their second house 40 miles away from their primary home, being caught, having to resign and then being offered their job back by Jimmy Crankie?