Do you think you would have managed the epidemic better? This game challenges you

Pandemiceo features a simulation where you control a country that is facing an explosion of coronavirus cases.

The coronavirus pandemic appears to have been on the decline, at least in France, for a few weeks. The combination of the gestures of maintaining the barrier (in particular, the mask) and the development of vaccination coverage inevitably played a role, as did the arrival of the health card, which has become essential for many places or activities in the city and beyond.

Will the fourth wave then be the last? Everyone hopes so, and if so, a sequence will open for reflection on how to deal with this health disaster. Were all decisions fair? And took on time? What was missing? What has been done well? What lessons can we learn from this crisis next time?

You run a country and you have to deal with the epidemic

Within a year and a half of the viral red alert, there is probably not a single person who has not at least once judged the decisions made. Would we have done differently by taking charge? If it is impossible to verify, the site allows you to simulate it: it exists pandemic, which is a mix between the pandemic and the CEO position. You find yourself at the helm of a country facing a pandemic.

The objective of the game is simple: you have to save your population by reaching a sufficient level of herd immunity. The game is available in English, and offers different difficulty levels (three, from easy to hard) depending on the country of your choice: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, and France. France, in particular, presents a great difficulty.

France is playable and has an estimated difficulty level of: Hard

Once you have chosen the governing country, you will have to make a decision each week, among different proposals. For example: You just learned that a health crisis is underway. How much funding do you want to provide for vaccine research? The temptation to revisit history in light of what we know today is clearly strong…

Each week, you will also have the possibility to play with the variables: closing the borders, the level of containment, the size of the vaccines to be purchased (initially, they were not there, because the research has not started yet), the degree of public spending or the payment. Each variable has an impact on the mood of the population, the economic situation and the health system.

When you make your decisions, you will have weekly reports on your finances (ratio between income and expenses, potential sale of your gold stock) and on the status of the epidemic (vaccination rate, virus spread speed, number of deaths, new cases). Perhaps then you will want to undo your previous decisions? Or will you stick?

Like any video game, the simulation has a depth that is not enough to imitate reality, but the tool has the advantage of showing the results of decisions, to counterfeit We must then imagine what it must have been like to direct a real crisis, like all the governments of the world. The idea then is to try to go as far as possible while limiting losses as much as possible.

In fact, pandemic It could deal with serious games (or serious games) in principle. Remember too Plague Company, his goal on the contrary is to try to infect the population as quickly as possible (it exists from another situation, to do the opposite). The game, which existed before covid-19, gained relative attention in early 2020, when China banned it and its designer had to work things out.

Let’s face it, our first attempt as CEO of France was cut short: it barely took us 13 weeks before we were run over by protesters. Closing the borders too soon led to the media accusing us of dictatorship. The economic boom also collapsed. As for the dead, they number more than 13,500 people.

So don’t count on us in case of Covid-21 virus.

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