I doubt if they would include this in the base game. It is part of the GTW pack when you join the doctor career. Maybe they might include it because the developers do recycle a lot of content.
@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!
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