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Continued below. 
Scenario One Act Two
So at the start of your second infection six months after the first one, your bean level is 95.
But your first infection weakened you a bit, so this time the infection is able to scoop out 15 beans.
You now have 80 beans.
Scenario One Act Three
At the start of your third infection another nine months later, you’re at 87 beans, but the infection steals 20 beans.
You’re now at 67 beans.
You didn’t really notice the first one, or the second, but now you’re definitely starting to notice.
2️⃣ Scenario Two
Act One
You start off with 30 beans, because you’re old, or you’re undergoing chemo, or you have a damaged immune system, or all three.
Your first SARS-CoV-2 infection takes 20 beans.
Scenario Two Act Two
You’re left with 10 beans, but a month later a cold gives you pneumonia and takes the other 10.
3️⃣ Scenario Three
Act One
You start off with 80 beans, and you get infected with SARS-CoV-2, but it only takes one bean, which seems great.
But on the way through you, it nicked a hole in the bag.
Scenario Three Act Two
Every other day or so you lose a bean.
You don’t even notice it for a couple of months.
But suddenly you realise that you’ve only got 50 beans.
Scenario Three Act Three
Your body manages to heal the rip with about 40 beans left.
You nervously wait to find out if the rip will reopen, or if your beans will be restored over time, or what the next infection will do.
4️⃣ Scenario Four
Act One
You have 110 beans. You’re a machine.
SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t even manage to steal one bean from you.
But it did something to the bag.
Subtle damage to the fabric.
Scenario Four Act Two
Two weeks later, you’re playing football, or going swimming, or doing crossfit, and you find out what Covid did to the bag.
It weakened to fabric.
The whole bag rips top to bottom and you lose every bean suddenly and catastrophically.
5️⃣ Scenario Five
Act One
You’re pretty healthy, with a bag with 90 beans.
Your body reacts very vigorously to your first SARS-CoV-2 infection. Covid doesn’t get away with more than a couple of beans.
Scenario Five Act Two
But the scent of Covid is on the rest of the beans. So your body starts attacking its own beans, destroying them one by one.
Is it ever going to stop attacking them?
6️⃣ Scenario Six
Act One
You have a bag with 100 beans in it.
Your first SARS-CoV-2 infection is relatively innocuous, but it seems to open the gap at the top of the bag a little.
So does your second infection.
Your bag is now wide open.
Scenario Six Act Two
A totally common infection that you’d normally resist easily comes along and sees the wide open bag, and takes 50 beans.
7️⃣ Scenario Seven
spoiler
You have a bag with only 18 beans in it.
You have seen what has happened to your friends’ bags when they have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and you are terrified of ever catching it.
You are called anxious by the people with bags full of 90 beans.
8️⃣ Scenario Eight
Act One
You think you have a bag of infinite beans, because you’re young and stupid, or old and stupid, or just stupid.
Your first SARS-CoV-2 infection takes a few beans, and you barely notice.
Your second one takes twice as many, and so does your third.
Scenario Eight Act Two
You realise you have hardly any health beans left.
You start blaming it on not catching enough viruses.
9️⃣ Scenario Nine
spoiler
Government officials tell you that if you catch SARS-CoV-2, it will be mild and make all your beans into magic beans.
You believe them, and enter into Scenario 1-7.
🔟 Scenario Ten
Act One
You buy a special cover that protects the entrance of your bag. You are told that this cover will end the pandemic.
You fit the cover, but find out that SARS-CoV-2 can still get in.
Scenario Ten Act Two
You and your friends all bought the covers, and although it makes it less likely that SARS-CoV-2 steals all your beans, you find out it can still steal the beans, rip or weaken the fabric or turn your body against your beans, even when the cover is installed.
🕚 Scenario Eleven
Act One
You have 98 beans in your bag. Normally out of 100 beans, you might have 3 beans that represent your kidneys. You don’t know it, but you only have 1 red kidney beans that represent your kidney left.
Your first SARS-CoV-2 infection only takes 4 beans.
Scenario Eleven Act Two
Of the 4 beans that Covid took, one of them was your last remaining kidney health bean.
Your kidney starts to fail.
🕛 Scenario Twelve
Act One
You have a bag full of 100 beans.
Your first SARS-CoV-2 infection takes 20 beans, but for some reason, your body now doesn’t want to replenish its beans the way it normally would.
Scenario Twelve Act Two
Everything exhausts you more.
Other infections hit you.
You just don’t bounce back the way you used to.
You just feel exhausted and run down all the time.
Will you ever recover your ability to bounce back?
🕐 Scenario Thirteen
spoiler
Your bag is full, but for some unknown reason, maybe luck, maybe genetics, your first SARS-CoV-2 infection takes all your beans.
It’s rare for younger folk, but it happens.
🕑 Scenario Fourteen
Act One
Your bag has a hundred beans when you first catch Covid. You’re one of the lucky ones. Your first infection only takes 3 beans, and you bounce back fast.
Your second infection takes 4 beans, and the same happens.
You’re back to 100 beans.
Scenario Fourteen Act Two
You catch SARS-CoV-2 a third time, and because it has not been a problem to you before, you go and visit your friend who has just given birth to a beautiful baby girl.
The beautiful baby girl’s bag is wide open.
Covid takes all the baby girl’s beans.
🕒 Scenario Fifteen
Part One
You have a mostly full bag of 75 beans, but you have a kidney bean problem.
It may have been caused by your first SARS-CoV-2 infection. Who knows?
You’re admitted to hospital for treatment.
Scenario Fifteen Part Two
While you’re in hospital, a healthcare worker with 100 beans and a cold that is actually SARS-CoV-2 infects you.
You lose all your beans, but the doctors say it was because of your kidney problem.
It was actually because the HCW infected you with Covid.
🕟 Scenario Sixteen
Act One
You have a bag with 40 beans in it and a stack of health problems. You fight through every aspect of life every day. You are reliant upon carers.
A carer with a full bag and SARS-CoV-2 shares it with you.
Scenario Sixteen Act Two
SARS-CoV-2 only takes one bean, so that’s not so bad.
But it rips the bag, and it weakens the fabric, and now you’re almost constantly in and out of hospital.
🕔 Scenario Seventeen
Part One
You send your kid into school because you’ve been told that kids can’t catch SARS-CoV-2.
The kid catches SARS-CoV-2.
The kid loses just 5 beans.
They bounce back pretty fast, gaining beans again week on week.
Scenario Seventeen Part Two
You send your kid back into school, because you’ve been told that kids are immune to SARS-CoV-2 when they’ve had SARS-CoV-2 once.
After 5 months, they catch SARS-CoV-2 again.
They don’t seem to be quite right after the infection, but it’s hard to tell.
Scenario Seventeen Part Three
Six weeks after their second infection, the kid suffers increasingly worse abdominal pain and needs hospital treatment.
The doctors poke around in the bean bag. They consider removing the kid’s appendix.
Scenario Seventeen Part Four
The kid gets SARS-CoV-2 again another five months later.
And then again another six months later.
At this point, you’ve got no idea how many beans are in the bag. The kid is like other kids, sometimes full of beans and sometimes flat.
Scenario Seventeen Part Five
But there’s something up. The kid is catching every bug going now. They seem run down. They get sicker with each bug.
They need hospital treatment again, this time for Strep A.
Scenario Seventeen Part Six
At this point it’s not about beans anymore, and you just have to ask why anyone thinks that it’s ok to reinfect kids with SARS-CoV-2 over and over and over again.
These are all real-life stories, illustrated crudely using beans and a bag and a bean thief.
Some of them are the stories of family and friends.
But of course this isn’t exactly how SARS-CoV-2 works, I’m just trying to explain how it hits us all differently.
To help with my visualisation, what kind of beans are we talking about here? Because chickpeas are very different from kidney beans, or lima beans, or borlotti beans. What if they are lentils? I know they are not technically beans, but would you count each lentil individually or just take a bunch?
In scenario eleven act one, it says you have one bean which represents your remaining functional kidney, so they must be kidney beans
I didn’t read that far, so thank you. I love all beans, but I would have preferred chickpeas ngl.
You can choose your type of bean when you create your character sheet