 Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and I'm about to save the world. We're playing Plague Inc, a game I have avoided for a year for obvious reasons. But now you can cure the world instead of, well, ruin it. And you know what? That's what we're gonna do. For a change, we're gonna do good. Alright, we're gonna start with the takes one to know one tree, bacteria. I've often been called bad bacteria. It was something of a nickname actually at one point. Great, I have no one to back me up. Okay, I'll take care of this myself then. Whoever came up with the saying, if you want a job right, do it yourself. Didn't think about me. I'm gonna go with Brutal for strategic geniuses. I don't know what to call geniuses, geniuses. For strategic geniuses, living in co- co- co- co- cone cr- cr- bunkers. I'm in. Name your play, Kevin. I gotta stop Kevin, god damn it. This is what I feel to be on the other side. Pick a country to be an HQ. You won't let me pick Ireland, will you? I remember why I boycotted this game in the first place. This is not the UK, god damn it. Alright, I guess if I'm trying to fix everything, I should go somewhere central. Oh, wait, wait, hold on, it's already started. Hold on, I'm still like location, location, location. And the virus is out there starting. Alright, look, I love Spain. So that's where I'm gonna have my base, even though I cannot speak the language. I'm sure I'll get by by pointing at things. Just like pointing at a picture of the virus. Bad, bad. Okay, this is Kevin. Ugly little fecker, isn't he? He's well understood. I assure you, I am very misunderstood. Going through a bit of an angsty phase. Alright, I'm hypersensitive and I cause a rash. Right, what have we got here? Yes, look for disease that sounds good. Deploy field operatives. I don't think we've even realized anything is happening, but yeah, my government was just like about to lock down the state. Sort of a martial law situation. I didn't even know about Kevin, but we really need to talk about Kevin. Coordinate with local government officials to more rapidly approve the setup investigation teams that will detect local disease outbreaks. You see that sounds great, but the pictures of a handshake and I, I don't like the sound of that anymore. I don't, like even when things go back to normal, I don't want handshakes anymore, alright? I'm done with that. They're awkward at best and they're gross at worst. You ever get like a limp fish, like when someone comes up and it's just kind of a, I don't want them back, but you know what? I should get it, I should try and get that. Can't revert, we'll see about that in real life we will get real handshakes. Okay, I spend all my resources, but I'm pretty happy with that. I think we can actually nip this in the bud. Look at that, I built a tent and everything. I meant to put my space in Spain, but I think I misclicked it. Alright, let's do some public awareness. Oh God, I can't tell people to wash their hands. You can't overload people with information. You can't tell them about an outbreak and also wash their hands. They can't take in that much information. What else could we do? Clinical treatments? No, that sounds too sciencey. A border monitoring, contact tracing. Yeah, let's do that. Can I just shut the borders? Like we're fecking islands here. It should be pretty easy to do, shouldn't it? Okay, when I zoom out, the situation seems worse. I'll just, Just this, scrolling by, Kevin detected. Alright, let's ignore that. Kevin vaccine ready to research. They can't get rid of me, finally. Okay, I got some resources. I just, I don't know why it's so funny to me to see my name everywhere. We're all talking about Kevin. Can we lock down? I wanna lock down the country. There we go, borders closed. Is that, oh, that's the vaccine. Okay, let's get rid of this Kevin thing. My parents. Alright, we're gonna give furlough so people can still earn money. Economic aid. I feel like I'm trying to do everything at once and it's not gonna work. I'm spending all my points. Kevin's spreading to lots of countries. He must be stopped. I don't know if I'm supposed to be like trying to help other countries or not. Oh, I don't like to look at this. I'm gonna zoom in so we can't see that and it seems like I'm doing a lot better than I actually am. Just sweep that under the rug. That's fine. Alright, what are these active abilities? What? You need to tell me what they are. Can I hover over them and something will happen? No? Okay, here we go. Oh, I can send field operatives to a target country. That might be a bit too late. Of course, the target country is shut border connections. That might be a good idea. You stop. You just stop over there, please. Thank you. Kevin panic hurts authority. Me panicking just hurts everything. Okay, come on. Get this vaccine sorted because I can't do this for much longer. I already feel like the seams are tearing apart. Compliance risk is a risk of non-compliance. I assume that if that fills up, that's when the people get a bit like restless about my poor management of this. Oh no, I just send my field operatives to another country without any protection at all. I forgot to like get masks and stuff. I still haven't told people to wash their hands. Oh, no, no. Oh, I thought that said PP package and I got happy for a second, but no, it's PPE. Yeah, wear masks, everyone. Sorry, I said that so late. How are you coming in? I said close the borders. Hold on, hold on. Stop, go away. Turn back. Oh, now people are still going out of there. This is bad. A new strain of Kevin. Oh my God, one is enough. What's this one called? We just calling it Kevin two? Or are we going to call it like RT game or something? Turkey begins disinfecting urban areas. Nature is healing us. World leaders are losing faith in your ability to handle Kevin. Look, he's a problem child, all right? Take immediate action, otherwise you will be fired. I'll go try. I'm 50% towards the vaccine. And like there are worse countries. How is Canada doing this so well? What have you done? World, Kevin has been spotted. Take him out. I have nine authority. How can I get authority? I need authority really bad. I'm going to put my foot down if that's OK with all of you guys. See, I've kind of forgotten that I'm trying to save the whole world, not just Ireland. I forgot that was kind of my job. Now I feel like it's too late. Why is my authority so low? Please listen to me. But also fill in some of the gaps. Like when I don't tell you to wash your hands, don't just not do it, because I haven't specifically told you. Wait, what is going on here? Are they like revolting or something? The one country I was actually focusing on, and they're revolting. Everyone else is dealing with it themselves. Research for a Kevin vaccine has been completed. Yes. And the production is at 36% already, because I did prepare for it a bit. I spent most of my points in the vaccine category. I, god damn it, Kevin. Too many people dying of Kevin. Sounds like my Sims game. All right, this one's going to be Kevin too. More Kevin, more furious. All right, I'm going to pick somewhere more central this time. I'm going to go with Italy. That seems like a good central point of the map. Plus, I can do this a lot now, which is just fantastic. My authority is already going down. Is it just like my demeanor? Is it because I keep doing this? You don't take me seriously? They must be so confused. It's like, why is it called Kevin too? No reason. All right, I'm going to tell people we're washing their hands early this time. I feel like I'm doing a much better response this time. I'm acting early. And I, and I, you're all down. That is the creepiest thing I've heard all day. There's still time though. There's still time left in the day. Let's not give up. Oh no, if it's gotten to Iceland. Oh wait, no, it's Greenland is the big one. It never goes to Green. Oh my God, it's in Greenland. Kevin, get out of there. All right, the vaccine's back and ready to go as soon as we, you know, figure out how to do it. Oh no, they're losing faith in my abilities. Why? Why? What did I do wrong besides, you know, everything? The world has had enough of your incompetent management. Why are you holding a gun? Please dude, pack off. I'm trying my best. Oh my God, this is so hard. Who could have known saving the world was this hard? All right, how about if we lower the difficulty just a little bit? It would help if I could hire any advisors. I'm in over my head. This is new to me. All right, instead of leaders ignore science, sick people inject disinfectant, doctors arrested for reporting disease, we're gonna swap to normal. Politicians vaguely competent, that's the dream. Experts mostly listen to healthcare systems unprepared. This is a soft reboot. The other ones never happened. This is Kevin again. It's a mulligan, you know? I'm even going back to the UK where I first started. Okay, I wonder, could I like immediately shut down those countries that it's in? Okay, so here we go, play. Where are ya? Where are ya? Are you there? Kevin? Nothing. Oh, I spotted you. There you are ya pesky bastard. Think you're better than me, do you Kevin? Okay, so I can't lock them down because there's no reason. They literally haven't even discovered it. It's just me showing up from the UK like, hey, shut down your country. I don't think it would work. All right, let's just try and act quick then. I'm gonna send investigators out there. They're not even gonna know why. Okay, here we go. You, there. Now you can't actually react quick enough to lock down the country. So we're gonna have to just try and deal with this the normal way through competence, which is gonna be very, very difficult for me specifically. All right, Kevin detected, South America alert. We are closing the entire continent. No, where are you going? I've already said to close it. Get in your houses, please. Please, just stop this madness. Oh no, it's in Australia now. How did it get there? It's in the UK. Oh my God, this is impossible. Yeah, everyone's getting pissed at me as well because it didn't even work. I don't blame them. All right, there we go. I've locked down South Africa and Australia. I'm spending a lot of points trying to nip this in the bud. I don't know if this is gonna work. Oh, it didn't lock down the UK. Oh no, Kevin vaccine ready to research, but I don't have any points because I've been locking down countries. Yeah, this strategy did not even work slightly. Oh wait, I didn't even tell people to wash their hands this time. Okay, yeah, everyone wash your hands. It might be a bit late. There we go. I went all out on preventative measures, but I think it might be a bit too late. Oh my God, my authority is just plummeting. Okay, that strategy was not very good. I'm willing to admit I didn't do well there. You know, it will skip a lot of my strategies and go right to Kevin 143. Okay, I'm gonna send field operatives. They are immediately, there we go. We found it. I'm gonna start the vaccine immediately as well. And tell people, oh wait, I can't afford to tell people to wash their hands. All right, now I can. Wash your hands, everyone. Oh my God, they wanna do the Olympics. Are you fucking nuts? Can I just tell the whole world to just relax with the vacations for a minute? There we go. Flying to different continents is now banned. In fact, I think I've banned air travel just worldwide. It's just not allowed. They're still moving my ships though, so it seems kind of pointless. Oh my God, they're gonna fire me again. They always fire me. I'm on one authority. I just boosted it up with something, but that's just like really temporary. Yeah, I'm just clawing my way back in there, but it's, oh, they're hazing me again. This is so difficult. I don't know how I did best the first time, just kind of weighing it. More authority. Come on, boost, yes, okay. Just clinging in there. All right, I don't wanna speak too soon, but I feel like I have a bit of a handle on things all of a sudden. I feel like restrictions are working. The censorship initiative is being uncovered by reporters. Authority no longer frozen. Oh yeah, I forgot. I censored everyone of being critical of me for a while there. It just got to me, okay? Thin skin. All right, we're preparing the vaccine, but everyone is hating my authority. I need this one. Fake news. Oh God, this guy's strategic failures. When I gotta do something, I did a horrible, horrible job. I'm not even gonna get the points necessary. Oh my God, I'm gonna lose. I need one point. One point, hold on, maybe I can refund something. You know that border thing? Forget about it. Instead of that, let's get some fake news up in here. What? No, you didn't give my fake news a chance to run its course. Oh my God. Okay, how about this? Casual, full international cooperation. People love wearing masks. Clapping scares disease away. And we're retconning it again. Now we're back to the original Kevin. All right, I put a lot of points into preventing it in the first place. Trying to stop the spread, you know? And we're gonna immediately start looking into that vaccine. Let's go everyone. We can do this together. Okay, all right, all right. Hold on, everyone just stop the second. Just stop getting infected for a moment. Hold on, I gotta spend some points. Oh my God, this is so overwhelming. This is so stressful. I just wanna save the world, God damn it. Is that too much to ask? I'm doing like all the ones that increase the vaccine speed. I think that's my best plan, just fecking rush Kevin when he doesn't expect it. Oh no, not Greenland. Okay, great. I've got like a lot of mass production in place for when this is actually through. Yes, okay, Kevin vaccine completed. Cure the bastard. Only 19%, I thought I did loads. Ah, I'm sure I got more than that earlier. Oh my God, it's releasing fast though. The mass production is working. But it's already 102. Geez, everyone believes in me for a change. Probably cause I actually did a competent job this time. Turns out if people don't fight against my wishes, it makes it a lot easier. Oh my God, the cases are just disappearing. It's been completely wiped out. Kevin is eradicated. Yes. The world is saved. Kevin is gone. Now we just need the world to go back to normal, just like that. Eradicate Kevin, you know? Before long, we'll be back to normal, I hope. Hope all of you are staying safe. Thank you very much for watching. I appreciate you and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.