Pandemic scenario soon

I agree would be tacky to say the least. I've already had covid and seriously am just now getting better. Some things are not good for joking, luckily I'm not elderly but it was still very serious, lung wise, it's not something you want, and it takes 2 weeks to fully recover, more if you are elderly and many suffer from oxygen issues, low blood oxygen levels, coughing is annoying but it's the shortness of breath that will really have you suffering, you might not want to eat much food besides soup, you may get dehydrated (pedylate will be your best friend to stay hydrated while you end up with fevers due to too much heat from a heater, and you may feel like you need the air on but that's kinda bad for you too). You may also get queasy during the mid stages, the early stage isn't so bad, and you may suffer from a severe lethargy, not wanting to get out of bed for a week and this may make you weaker, so after that first week you need to walk around some, sit up in a chair to break up coughs, that is super important to healing, just some FYI as a person who's whole family got covid at the same time, so it was really hard cause no one felt like cooking or doing much of anything (once we got good enough to eat better, take out was our best friend, to minimize quarantine, we tried not to go out to stores unless manditory and we always wore a mask if we had no one we could rely on. We're a small family, so only one relative brought us food to help, that's a little sad. But it was much appreciated and it helped a lot in those early virus infection days, in fact, you can be contagious even after a week, sometimes two, just letting you know how extreme this virus is, it's similar to flu but much much worse.

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@kyiahma1989 Hi!  So TS4 has something similar to a pandemic with Strangerville.  Obviously, it's not the same thing and I am not trying to make light of the very real trauma experienced by people.  However, in the Strangerville playthrough, you get to investigate the cause of a mysterious affliction and take steps to eradicate it.  There's research involved, taking samples and such, developing a vaccine (plus the more fantasy stuff for which I don't want to give any spoilers).  Anyway, it's just something to consider.

@sailornaru I'm very sorry for your horrible experience.  I'm glad you and your family are okay!

There is a pandemic thing I been doing with my sims but the strangervillie story seems to be broken at the moment, I don't know if its the fact the the sim that completed the story is still alive or something else.  I can't get the story to spawn correctly the bizzaire plants stay in their baby form.

@Hiroko-sama  I don't think it's necessary to attack the person who had COVID for having a different opinion than you. @sailornaru is entitled to their opinion, too.

I haven't had COVID, and I still think it would be tacky to turn real-life human suffering into a gameplay "feature." On the other hand, I would have no problem with their doing more with the fake diseases already present in Get To Work (giving us clinics to visit instead of all diseases having the same "cure" off the Internet, for example).

I also think that game development takes longer than this thread is taking into account. I'm assuming it would be an expansion pack if it included transmission rates, a disease spread mechanic, and everyone having to work from home unless they're in the doctor career or the like, etc. I don't think they've said how long it takes to make an expansion pack, but I'm going to guess that if they started a pandemic expansion pack now it would be ready in a year, maybe two.  I certainly hope the pandemic will be over by then, because I'm completely over the pandemic!