Actually two different times MMO's have released bad things into the game system and the community had to figure out what to do to get through it. This is likely going to be another. Read the Owl Sector logs. There is discussion of vision problems and hearing problems in test subjects back from the creation of it. I thought just like you did until today. Now I have my spinmetal hat firmly in place and two uninfected guardians staying out of all this mess.