Got a very good result (bottom left corner of scatter chart at the end) by keeping masks on and banning risky businesses for the whole time and limiting events to 100 or 10 people and keeping schools closed until summer.<p>Probably wasted money on vaccine promotion. It didn't feel like a vaccine did much difference in such short time-frame and number of immune people rose super slow even towards the end.<p>When they extend the game till the end of 2021 and beyond vaccines may make huge sense.
Here's something that's been bugging me. The SIR (and SEIRS) model that this game is based on seem to me to have a flaw. Now obviously I'm not an epidemiologist, and I'm sure that epidemiologists have a good handle on this, I just don't know what it is.<p>The problem is this: if you assume an exponential decay, you're saying there's no point after infection at which the probability of transmission is zero. Probability of infection has a half-life in SIR. But for a virus like covid, we know that's not true: if you're infected, give it six weeks and you won't be infectious any more, one way or another. If you replace an exponential decay with a finite transmission lifetime, you do end up with different epidemic curves: they have steeper fall-off, for instance.<p>What's the reasoning here?
Hi, game author here.<p>First, this URL <a href="https://covidgame.info/" rel="nofollow">https://covidgame.info/</a> loads the game in English by default. There was a plan to popularize the game outside of Czechia but, frankly, we missed the window when major news outlets were interested.<p>The game source code is here: <a href="https://github.com/swehq/corona-game" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/swehq/corona-game</a><p>I added few comments on the other thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763873#27766930" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763873#27766930</a>
I don't like how there is no option for, "spend billions of dollars on buying enough rapid Covid tests to test every man, woman, and child in the country every single day". Given that rapid Covid tests cost about $5 a piece, this should be an economically feasible option that should be able to sharply reduce the spread of illness. Its too bad that nobody tried it in real life, or we would be able to see if it works.
It's really cool, it's so powerful that it makes people realize the trade-offs.<p>The only problem is that in hindsight of course we can do pretty well. I guess most governments could do better after the fact. Too bad you can't play the future with random-generated possibilities. The fact that we don't know what's going to happen would make it in part more accurate.
"Masks, hands, distancing" somehow costs 498B? Luckily, after a spike of 200k cases a day for a couple of months, it seems most of the population dies or becomes immune, with 3.6M infections (14M including reinfections) and 200K dead by simulation end. Doing the bare minimum and letting the weak die on the streets led to a pretty decent life for the survivors.
Infectonator: World Dominator was much, much funnier. And it was a bit scarying how realisticly it served as a model. I stopped playing in 2020, for obvious reasons (Flash stopped updating :) ).