In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously
all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose
mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each
of four plagues before they get out of hand. 

The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On
each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between
cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, or build a research
station. A deck of cards provides the players with these abilities,
but sprinkled throughout this deck are Epidemic! cards that accelerate
and intensify the diseases' activity. A second, separate deck of cards
controls the "normal" spread of the infections.  

Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy
to mesh with their specialists' strengths in order to conquer the
diseases. For example, the Operations Expert can build research
stations which are needed to find cures for the diseases and which
allow for greater mobility between cities; the Scientist needs only
four cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal
five - but the diseases are spreading quickly and time is running out.
If one or more diseases spreads beyond recovery or if too much time
elapses, the players all lose. If they cure the four diseases, they
all win! 


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          Coronavirus: Decisions Edition 

It's life-or-death decision time!

If you operate airports or airlines in one of the first countries
hit, decide: 
- Would you quietly get around travel restrictions via indirect
long-haul routes vs. risk lesser quantities of revenues? 

Run a Chinese bus company?  Decide: 
- Ask affected riders to respect surrounding passengers thus: 
"Please spit on the street"?  Better out than in, I always say!

The Chinese Communist Party leadership decide: 
- Dare be a bearer of bad news vs. (easier) report a few 
tens of thousands of harmless fake stats re. cremains? 

Dr. Tedros (a world health body's leader...) decides:
- Play it safe, or take some chances and assure that 
your precious CCP friends have the epicentre under control?
Meanwhile, state that discouragement to tourists is racist.

Clerics decide: 
- Meditate? Or cause people to share group hugs so God will help?

All the high-power execs decide: 
- Be late to the meeting after only the _other_ chap in Tenerife
had a cough/fever? 

Internet trolls/arseholes decide: 
- Create chaos via fake news?  "Face masks & gloves attract 
pathogens!!!" is free speech. 

A possible British case?  Decide: 
- "I'm bored here in quarantine. Say, shall I visit my local pub?"

Joe Public?
- The rest are mostly pawns who try to wait this out, 
if it's not far too late.


If healthy humans are left on Earth, please try the Simian Flu
Expansion Pack!