I wonder if the Flu Manchu is going to kill the zombie genre or re-invigorate it?
I saw the movie
Outbreak was trending on Netflix. So during a pandemic, people were excited to watch a pandemic. Makes me wonder how Walking Dead is doing with viewers now.
There's definitely drama to mine with the Invisible Enemy concept. My personal favorite is
Cabin Fever by Eli Roth, the director of Hostel.
If someone wanted to use the current China Virus situation in a game, I'd suggest checking out the #FilmYourHospital videos floating around the web. The concept of a global hoax, empty hospitals and a panicked populace seeing a totally different reality than on the TV sounds like a great jumping off point for Lovecraftian horror, ala
In the Mouth of Madness.
I find it quite disturbing to see how, despite the stone-age being many thousands of years in our past, humans are still just stupid, angry primates.
"Modern" humans have allegedly been around about 300,000 years. And until the past few centuries, most humans lived pretty much like their stone age ancestors. Looking over the timeline of history, the veil of civilization is paper thin, at best.
In one of my longest-running campaigns, the countries of the world were still recovering from a magical bioweapon apocalypse 2,000 years ago, including plagues, bioengineered creatures, hostile plants, fungi, and so on. And certain parties were starting to mess around with recently unearthed tech.
THAT sounds like an awesome setting. Consider publishing it.