"Hey, you. Yeah, you, doing it for free. Yeah, we, who are getting paid for the same thing you're doing, with more resources than you could ever imagine, can you tell us how you did it? We're totally out of ideas, you know?"
Behind every single pod person there is at least one dangerhair inoculator:
Blizzard or Blizzard North? Its an important distinction because the North studio was pretty much responsible for all the classics(including WoW) with the main studio just kind of appropriating their work. Even Chris Metzen basically stole a good chunk of the writing from someone over at North.
Well, Stratholme has walls so you don't need a giant garrison of men. You can just block off entrances and exits and set up proper barricades, kill zones, and patrols. Between Jaina and the paladins, the idea that a magical necromantic plague could be cured (or that some other form of progress could be made against it for containment/detection/etc. purposes) is not too unreasonable.
Honestly it still works for that purpose. Even if it's justified, it's still Arthas ruthlessly committing himself to kill his own people. There is a threshold being crossed there, and the narrative of Arthas being increasingly willing to murder, deceive, and betray his own men for his purposes as a form of moral descent is still serviceable even if there are solid reasons for doing what he did.
Blizzard never cared about good writing. That's why they so easily retconed their older stories and later outsourced most of the games stories to books and other media.
To be fair to Jaina she at least had the decency to feel bad about both and paid dearly for both. Uther meanwhile became WoW equivalent of Jesus and nobody even dares to give him shit for basically failing across the board.
A quarantine was never a option. The citizens were not sick but killed by the plague and the re-animated as zombies(or at the very least would be by the necromancers). Whatever Arthas could put forward they would break through by sheer numbers and when coordinated by Mal'ganis or any of the necromancers they would not even need the numbers advantage. Besides its not like you can cure undeath anyway.
