Since there were disasters that could affect entire continents, wasn't it possible to immediately destroy the area where the outbreak occurred at the same time?
Since crowds were both the fuse and the pathway for memes and disasters, was it possible to confine or even erase the people around the disaster area as well?
Forming a disaster vacuum area to isolate and weaken the expansion and enhancement of the disaster—if that were feasible, then what had plunged continents into darkness would, at most, only affect a provincial area, or even just a city would suffice.
The geniuses celebrated jubilantly, believing that the best era for humanity had arrived, because the disasters that had been capable of destroying entire continents in the past could now, with the advancement of human civilization, only affect an area as big as a province—humanity was worry-free!