This article examines the chronic character of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and highlights some of the changes we might expect to see at the global level as HIV is increasingly normalised as "just another chronic disease".
Although the comic was a vanity project created by another character who dies during the pandemic, it resonates with survivors more than any other story seems to.
"World War Z" deleted a line in which characters debate whether the zombie pandemic sweeping the world originated in China.
Jeevan, a character who in the pre-pandemic world works to leave behind his unfulfilling job as a paparazzi, finds in the doomsday world a chance to do valuable work.
In the 2011 movie "Contagion," a chef in Macao initiates a global pandemic by failing to wash before shaking hands with the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Vietnam, Iraq, racial strife, the AIDS pandemic: these are not the sorts of concerns that worry his characters.
Like the characters in Crash we are willing participants in what Ballard called "a pandemic cataclysm that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year and injures millions".
Plague simulates pandemic situations much like the ones RMS tackles, so the company integrated their brand as an expert character, offering a scientific authority within the game to guide players.
Every pandemic begins small.
A pandemic is "imminent".
