The letter hits all the notes one would expect at this point, announcing that sanitization efforts will be undergone at every GameStop location, encouraging employees and customers to to self-isolate if symptomatic, and assuring that the company is taking the pandemic seriously. The hilariously preposterous rumor popped into existence when GameStop's corporate apparatus put out a press release meant to calm customers and shareholders, as all American companies have done since the nation's worst fears about COVID-19 proved true.
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Considering the immense strain COVID-19 and companies' growing efforts to slow its spread are putting on the world economy, GameStop is probably far too preoccupied with determining how to survive an extra fiscal quarter in the likely event of next-gen consoles being delayed to even consider synthesizing a breakthrough vaccine for which it has no experience, personnel, or infrastructure. It's a rumor so outlandish that it almost goes without saying, but the used video game and geek culture retailer is not in the business of developing complex cures for contagions capable of grinding travel and everyday life as we know it to a near-halt, nor should it ever be.Īnyone familiar with GameStop's deepening financial straits in recent years knows that its employees are far too busy struggling with the fallout caused by the digital games market's growing prevalence over physical sales of new and used games to worry about much else. GameStop is the last organization anyone would expect to solve the coronavirus pandemic, and no, GameStop did not create a vaccine for the deadly disease.