Pictured: Saudi Arabia after the government decided that pandemic control measures are for pussies and every continent just NEEDS the parasite that kills you from diarrhoea. these planes all flew within like a week

i just can't figure out how to effectively play this mode. sometimes i'll start a run and a million people in china and india are already infected, with every person dying of dysentery deciding "yes, now is the perfect time for me to go visit the UK" as soon as i arrive

on runs that don't have DOA starts i'll try to implement lockdowns and politicians will simply respond 'fuck you' within weeks, which of course gives permanent authority reduction too. i'm struggling to figure out how to actually contain the disease when continent-wide measures always piss off the countries that are (for now) uninfected, and a ton of targeted lockdowns would cost more than i can afford. either way the lockdown gets ignored and the shit in figure 1 happens. also yep, i'm investing in the non compliance reducers too. i don't think they care

on top of that i've got infection/fatality reduction and vaccine production to think about too. that's three spinning plates to balance and i can't even afford the containment / noncompliance management one. epidemiologists in real life have my deep sympathy if their job is like this but worse

am i just not cut out for this mode? i got through bacteria fine, and scraped by virus despite it obliterating the entire population of the middle east. i'm just stuck on parasite (AND only on normal difficulty.. oh my god). anyone got any tips for the mode overall? please??

Cure mode is driving me absolutely insane