Baby Intelligence's campaign

"*Well, Force Baby's a Kraton, and I have a closely guarded secret. We can go where almost no one else can. So we do, in order to keep the peace. We have a powerful obligation to do so. Because that's why superheroes exist in the first place, to keep peace where law enforcement is insufficient to.*"
―Baby Intelligence[src]
Because of their unusual physiologies that kept them safe from sickness, Baby Intelligence and Force Baby began a **campaign** to help keep the peace during the pandemic in early 2030.

## Background

The 2030 Pandemic was first identified in China around the time the Attack on the Fourth Dominion occurred in December 2029, and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11. Efforts to prevent the virus spreading included travel restrictions, quarantines, curfews, workplace hazard controls, event postponements and cancellations, and facility closures. Annabeth Black had Deaformas patrol Yellowstone and several states surrounding it, to force people to stay homebound. Numerous schools and universities in more than one hundred twenty countries, including Superhero School and Superhero University, closed either on a nationwide or local basis, affecting more than a billion students.

## Campaign

"*More and more people are being infected by the day. Yesterday, I had to take in someone who lived near the Acquisition District that had been selling tailsmans online, he was all like, 'With this amulet, you can go anywhere'."
"Well, that's a good thing, right?"
"Well, they really just caused wearers' fingernails to engorge and harden, you know, so they can't file them. As if NYC Hospital wasn't busy enough already!*"
―Baby Intelligence and Lindsay Kellerman[src]
Baby Intelligence and Force Baby both proved to be essential to spending a lot of time in public dealing with the 2030 pandemic in ways no one else could. This was because Baby Intelligence, being an enhanced warrior, and Force Baby, being a Kraton, were immune to most sicknesses, and therefore had nothing to fear leaving their homes. One of their most important duties was shutting down unscrupulous people who sought to take advantage of the international isolation, or prey on the widespread terror for personal gain. This included confiscating scam tailsmans from a man trying to sell them online that had gone so far as to create a website about them. Lindsay Kellerman and Dante Christensen, on the other hand, being just as vulnerable as anyone else, often stayed in the MBH alone, giving Christensen the responsibility of watching over Kellerman, leading to the two bonding.

Aside from his duties outside of the house, Baby Intelligence would on occasion stay up at night putting together his scientific genius and vast resources to develop a vaccine or antiviral treatment, as none was known to the world. Ultimately, he never succeeded to this end. However, primary treatment was symptomatic and supportive therapy. Being fully aware of this, Baby Intelligence had a list of measures he expected of his pupils to take on a regular basis to prevent constricting or spreading it. This included hand washing, covering one's mouth when coughing, and maintaining distance from other people.

When Dante Christensen was strongly suspected of being infected, Baby Intelligence took to monitoring him more closely and enforcing absolute isolation for him. Worried that Kellerman could not be left at home alone, he was able to convince Bruce Wright to come over and babysit her. Wright brought a sleeping bag and several comfort items from home for his stay at the mansion. Eventually, the taxing job of monitoring Kellerman for hours at a time prompted Wright to seek assistance. This resulted in Bailey Dennings and Kamille Trinity to also live temporarily at the MBH, with Trinity only coming as Dennings' condition for coming over. Trinity tried to invite her boyfriend Dakota over so they could spend more time together, but Baby Intelligence had to put his foot down.

Days later, he realized he had falsely assumed babies and toddlers were particularly vulnerable to the 2030 pandemic, presuming their immune systems to be underdeveloped and therefore weak. As a result, he profoundly apologized to Christensen, to the extent of almost becoming hysterical, though he had to yell at him before he could embrace Lindsay Kellerman.

After the Bombing of Turquoise Beldevere, it was reported that more than 585,000 cases of COVID-29 had been reported in over 200 countries and territories, resulting in approximately 26,800 deaths and more than 131,000 recoveries.

## Aftermath

The pandemic has led to severe global socioeconomic disruption, the postponement or cancellation of sporting, religious, and cultural events, and widespread fears of supply shortages which had spurred panic buying. Toilet paper was widely considered a particular necessity. Misinformation and conspiracy theories about the virus have spread online.

## References

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