In the world of Two Point Hospital, a pandemic is just a disease where you have a pan on your head. It provided an escape that mirrored real life, but in a way that was manageable and funny. In my case, the absurdity of Two Point Hospital helped me reframe the pandemic around my own circumstances. They help you deal with the world in some way or another. What you really had to watch out for was the clowns, zombies and dinosaurs that roamed the hospital halls. In this version of Earth, a pandemic was nothing. But the game helped me gain a better perspective on the world, and disconnect from the constant flow of devastating world news. Read: Making video games for a dying planet As the coronavirus pandemic worsened, the rigour and structure of the game was a lifeline that helped me re-establish a sense of control. You have goals and strategies to meet them, and you can help people get better in the blink of an eye. But with a growing awareness of the hospital system and the impact that illness can have on society, it became the unlikely saviour of my lockdown.

Two Point Hospital was never meant to be a coping mechanism. The real world was going wrong, but in Two Point Hospital there was a kind of clinical sanity that helped me deal with the pandemic through absurdity. When the world felt off-axis, Two Point Hospital became a unique digital dollhouse to work in. It’s all about control, and building the perfect, miniature universe. Instead, they run hospitals solo, training staff on their own, setting up rooms and trying to find the perfect equilibrium between making a profit and making people healthy. In this version of the world, players aren’t helpless onlookers. In many ways, Two Point Hospital functions as a ‘digital dollhouse’, a miniature reflection of the world where players can reshape outcomes and guide their staff and patients forward. It’s silly, it’s absurd, and it’s just part of how Two Point Hospital makes it easier to deal with our current, pandemic-ridden circumstances. They die in dramatic fashion, and end up as ghosts who need to be sucked up with a vacuum cleaner. As you build your hospital and train your staff, you’ll often lose patients due to lack of time or inexperience. To some, the way Two Point Hospital deals with disease and death so flippantly it will seem crass. Some of us deal with crises through humour, and others prefer to stick their head in the sand.īoth methods are valid ways of dealing with the unknown, but I’ve always found humour to be the better option of the two - particularly when it comes to serious, unfathomable issues you have trouble wrapping your head around. Between 20, we’ve all learned lessons about how it works, and how we all cope with change. Read: Relaxing games to help curb your doomscrolling habit It’s still important to keep one foot in the door and understand what’s going on around you - but there’s no harm indulging in some ridiculous fun, particularly if it helps you cope with your circumstances. In fact, games are the perfect medium to really lose yourself in another world. Participants included multiple agencies and levels of government (see attached for complete list).When the world gets tough, there’s no harm in seeking happiness through entertainment. The purpose of the exercise was to increase the community’s capability to respond to emergency incidents.ĭozens of agencies successfully collaborated and worked through the challenges commonly faced in such disasters.

These capabilities included: planning, communications, medical surge, critical resources logistics and distribution. On completion of the exercise, capabilities identified by the Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP) were measured and evaluated. Approximately 100 patients were loaded onto the C-130, taxied across the tarmac to waiting medical teams, followed through the national and regional patient tracking systems, and then loaded into ambulances for transport to hospitals. The scenario portrayed a simulated earthquake in the Bay Area, with patients being transported via C-130 to Mather Airport for relocation to area hospitals. Sacramento area hospitals and medical facilities were part of a statewide mass casualty plan to ensure that in the event of a disaster, patients needing health care could be transported away from affected areas. Sacramento, CA., - Today a host of partners and stakeholders joined forces to test and evaluate the region’s ability to respond in a disaster that required the relocation of patients in hospitals to alternate care sites.

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